This is a dance remix on a Birdwatcher track that i have recordered in Bali in 2014 and decided to give it a bit of a dance vibes

birdwatcher

Birdwatcher (remix)

Love My Dog

Коннитива (feat. Masha Vodyanova)

Nyepi

Postcard

I'm a town
And there's a tower
That grows from my heart
Where thousand of birds live
I'll send you a postcard
With a carrier dove
Where im on a sunset
Keep your windows open
Keep your windows open
 piano

Postcard

I'm a town
And there's a tower
That grows from my heart
Where thousand of birds live
I'll send you a postcard
With a carrier dove
Where im on a sunset
Keep your windows open
Keep your windows open

Postcard (feat. Alex Gorshkov & Alexey Yarygin)

In Love with These Hills

In Love With These Hills

Worms Ate My Flesh

Vanish

Make Like A Tree & Gréta Arnarsdóttir - Þjóðsöngur

CityZen

Meditation for Sunday n.36

Meditation for Tuesday n.69

The Return

The Return (feat. Chris McGregor)

Make Like a Tree & Sleepless - Synth (Armenia) 
https://www.facebook.com/Sleeplessmusic1/ 

I was playing concert in Yerevan in summer 2017 and Arman Less aka Sleepless invited me to his home studio to make a record together. It was a great time as we have done a great job and also i met all his lovely family and get to know his music better. We used one of the beautiful fresh tracks by Sleepless and I added some vocals to the song. It’s a last song on the album but was actually the first one that was recorded and got to the album compilation. It's about eternal life of hope that never dies.

Mothernight

Hope

Make Like a Tree & Akie Doi - Violin (Japan)
 http://www.jiri-official.com/ 

My life in Tokyo definitely would not be so fun and great without knowing Akie. She is a multi talented musician and yoga teacher and for me she became a great companion to explore suburbs and secret places of Tokyo. We performed together couple of times and felt a strong music connection like an electricity shock between two people. We decided to make this record together to memorize this feeling. Special thanks to Paradise Air Art  Residency that gave me a roof above my head where i could work on my new songs. The provided living space used to be a Love Hotel in past. It inspired me a lot and i decided to make a happy song about sad person who is looking for love happiness in other people and in the end character of my song realizes that the source of  real  happiness and love could be found only inside of us but not outside.

I'm So Happy Here Without You

Make Like a Tree & Takahiro Kido - Piano, Synth & Yuki Murata - Piano  (Japan)
 http://fleursy.com/yukimurata/ 
http://fleursy.com/takahirokido/

While touring Japan in 2017 I was very happy to meet amazing musicians Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata. I knew their music since a long time ago and meeting them in person was a great gift for me. We had a nice walk around Kichijoji area in Tokyo and enjoyed first spring days. Takahiro Kido  added some beautiful Piano and Synth tunes and Yuki Murata played amazing piano solos. The track “In the middle” represents a description of human’s life as a book where every day is a new page that we can fill with beautiful moments. But some of us are forgetting about possibility to turn the pages and they got stuck in the middle of the book with rewriting every day on the same page that leads to unhappiness. This song is a reminder to myself about importance of not  carrying many things that we don't need anymore  from past days and being strong enough to turn the pages and enjoy freshness of life form a new page.

In The Middle

Make Like a Tree & Nick Acorne - Synth (Ukraine, Austria)
http://nickacorne.com/ 

 In spite of being recorded on a sunny Zanzibar island this song had a dark mood. The name of the song speaks for itself. It happens sometimes to me that if I stay too long in a concrete jungles for too long time I start feeling that I miss a fresh air. Running away to the woods always helps to recharge inner batteries and then continue struggle with a city monster. I know Nick for ages as we have been part of the same underground music scene of Kharkiv. We played many shows sharing same stage. Now he lives in Graz, Austria and sometimes comes to play a show with me if I’m touring somewhere nearby. He added this perfect melancholy  mood to the song and from being light grey in became much more contrast with his sounds.

City Is A Cage

Make Like a Tree  & Mt. Mélodie - Ebow, Moog (Norway)
https://www.facebook.com/mtmelodie/ 

Long time ago i was listening tons of new music every day trying to follow all brand new released albums. Now I'm more into listening on repeat bands that I’m already in love with. Back then I found a great band “The Samuel Jackson 5” from Norway. They are still in my playlist since i have heard them more than 10 years ago. Once they came to Ukraine and I was in a front raw watching them. They were not only genius and talented musicians but also a very humble and cool guys with who we were hanging out after the show and I even managed to make an interview with them. After bunch of years I visited Oslo and I met with Thomas Meidell - guitar player of “The Samuel Jackson 5” in his studio for an impro collaboration that ended up in a small experimental 3 tracks EP. I really enjoyed playing with him and seeing the way he works in a studio. I proposed him to make a song for my future EP and also do a mastering of the entire album. I recorded Sad Baobab Song in sunny Kenya and then sent it to Thomass into snowy Norway. Literally from summer to winter. I feel that it added some nice contrast and shape to the whole idea of the song. After one of the shows someone asked me: Why is your baobab sad?”. And my reply was: “The baobab from the song is sad because he has never seen snow and he realized that he does not have a chance to see it for his entire life.”

Sad Baobab Song

Make Like a Tree & Owl Clarinet - clarinet, sax, akai ewi (Ukraine)
https://www.facebook.com/owl.clarinet/ 

“Under Water”  is a first track that opens the album. It was composed and recorded on island of Zanzibar and then featured Sergey Savenko aka Owl Clarinet  - clarinet and synth music  genius from Ukraine. He added beautiful melodies of  clarinet, sax and akai ewi. I met Sergey long time ago seeing him performing with other bands in clubs of my hometown Kharkiv where we all used to grow up. Some solos that he played from stage  got carved in my memory and when coming back home from his shows these melodies were always on repeat in my mind. We played many shows together and it was always a dream to make a record with his tunes. Finally when i came back from my long journey home we could make our collaboration happen. This songs represents the feeling of being united with someone without having any reasons. Being “under water” with other person means finding out that you have something in common that makes you feel a strong connection even without knowing each other well. It happens a lot when you travel and you meet new people and after couple of hours spent together you feel like you have known each other for ages. Being “under water” means being friends.

Under Water

Animal

Привет океан

Single by Make Like a Tree and Pavel Dodonov - Meditation and Alcohol is out today on all digital streaming services. This song is about keeping a right balance and harmony in simple daily things. If you drink too much it can be bad for you, if you meditate too much it can be bad for you too. Even things that we love being overdosed can harm.
It is recordered in collaboration with Pavel Dodonov - Guitar player of DDT @ddt_band and Dolphin @dolphinmusic .
Stay tuned and balanced, enjoy life and love every single moment! 
credits
released June 1, 2020

Pavel Dodonov - guitar and synths
Make Like a Tree - Guitar, synths, vocals
Cover art - Anton Ismael

lyrics
Meditation and alcohol
Are my best friend in this dark fall
Self destruction is my medicine
I'm disfunctional when I think of you

Time
Is a knife
Time
Cuts me Alive

My blood is wine
I'm on bottom line
My blood is wine
I'm on  bottom line
My blood is wine
I'm on the bottom line
Drink it all Drink it all
I'll be fine

Days are stations, life is a bus
Meditation won't save us
From ourselves
From ourselves

Time
Is a knife
Time
Cuts me alive

cover by amazing artist from Indonesia and Anton Ismael 
Released on Ears of Bears record label https://earsofbears.com/

Citymonk

Meditation and Alcohol

My Heart Is a Dancer is collaboration between ukrainian ambient indie folk project Make Like A Tree & a beautiful singer from Iceland Gréta Arnarsdóttir. 
It is released as a single but also will be part of the album Citymonk that is a co creation between Make Like a Tree and 8 musicians from 8 different countries. We Met with Greta in a small village in Poland while I was playing a concert there.  Somehow it happened that i heard how Greata was playing around with her voice and I could not believe my ears - this beautiful girl had so much power in her singing. I was totally amazed and it was a long story dream for me to try making a song together with her one day. This time came! Let your heart dance non stop with us every day!

Make Like a Tree & Gréta Arnarsdóttir - My heart is a Dancer
Ég hef hjarta
sem elskar að dansa

Ég hef hjarta 
sem elskar að dansa í kringum þig

Ú hreyfðu þig meira
mig langar að dansa í kringum þig

Ú kysstu mig heitar
Stígum saman spor útí alheiminn

Þegar að við kynntumst fyrst
ég varð þig bara að sjá 
stíga dans við taktinn
og horfa mig á

Roðinn verður rjóðari
og hjörtun fara að slá
stígum saman dansinn 
af heitri unaðsþrá

ég hef hjarta 
sem elskar að dansa 

ég hef hjarta 
sem elskar að dansa

Ú hreyfðu þig meira
mig langar að dansa í kringum þig

Ú kysstu mig heitar
stígum saman spor útí alheiminn

Cover art is by indonesian artist  Satria Nugraha
Released on Ears of Bears record Label

My heart is a dancer

My Heart Is a Dancer

Sad November is a collaboration between Make Like A Tree & Perry Frank - amazing post rock ambient musician from south of Sardinia. We played a concert together and I was so inspired by the sounds of his guitar and pedals so I decided that we need to do a track together one day. We made a impovised collaboration and filmed it on the boeutiful cost near abandoned mines of Nebida on the suburbs of Iglesias. I have spent 3 amazing days on the south west coast of Sardinia in small village Nebida and it totally took my heart away. I sometimes still see dreams with the landscapes of that palce. This song is about lost paradise and about time when we are incredibly happy but we are not realizing. We are always much happier hen we think we are. With love from South of Sardinia! 

Make Like A Tree & Perry Frank - Sad November
We built a House
By the sea
And your dog
Finally loves me
But that sad 
November
Makes us surrender
From our dreams
From our dreams
But I believe
In Magic
Though it's tragic
To wake To wake up 
Without you
Without you

Cover art is by my USA based artist friend @elevatorteeth
Released on Ears of Bears record Label

Sad November

Vocals, guitars and synths - Make Like a Tree
Tetsuro Hori - Cello, effects

This is my first try to write a song in italian language.
Italy is country that i feel i have the most deep connection after Ukraine. I love the sound of the language and always wanted to try writing a song using this beautiful sounds. Another strong connection for me is Japan. I met wth Tetsuro Hori first time in his hometown Kobe whle we were playing a concert there. And recently I was on a trip to Kuala Lumpur and went to see an improvisation music festival where by surprise I saw Tetsuro again! I heard him playing his cello with great ammout of effects on it and  was totally blown away so I decicded to propose him to make a track together. This is an Italian-Japanese-Ukrainian expression of what I was feeling last autumn when this album have been composed

Ai lati opposti del letto
Siamo molto lontani l'uno dall'altro.
E non più parole per rimediare tutto
Brucia come una sigaretta

La nostra magiiiaa, abracciaaami,  abracciami
Attraverso l'abisso, verso il paradiso,
Che abbiamo perso, 
Ma adesso, ma adesso

 Credo ancora in noi
 Credo ancora in noi
Ho bisogno di una mano
Mentre non siamo 
Cosiiì lontani
Saltiamo,  saltiamo
L'uno verso l'altro
Mi manca
I tuoi baci caldi
 Credo ancora in noi
Farò ciò che vuoi,

Ai lati opposti del letto
è la nostro ultimo chance
Per accorчciare la distanza
Questa non e la fine
Vieni più vicino
Per que, per que

Credo Ancora In Noi

Credo ancora in noi
Credo ancora in noi
Ho bisogno di una mano
Mentre non siamo 
Così lontani
Saltiamo,  saltiamo
L'uno verso l'altro
Mi manca
M tuoi baci caldi
Credo ancora in noi
Farò ciò che vuoi

Released on Ears of Bears record Label

Credo Ancora in Noi

Credo Ancora In Noi

Make Like a Tree - music, vocals
Aweng Himawan - banjo

Aweng is my good old friend from Bali. He was the first person who I met on this island. We shared lots of amazing moments together and he was always a great source of inspiration to me. We met again after 6 years of me being out of Indonesia and this meeting was a start of making music together. He added beautiful banjo tunes to my song and I feel its just the beginning of our creative collaboration.

Postcards sent to your heart
All came back undelivered
You want us to be Apart
No chance to be forgiven

It's a sad sad time for the birds
To witness me in a love shiver
You can cut off all my hope
I'm still gonna be a believer

In love in love in love

You cut me off    your    heart
Threw    me in the  dark cellar
I'm a prisoner of love
You my savior and killer

You said get out of    my bones
Get out of my body
Your heart is full of stones
Your love is for somebody else

Leave a Place next to ya
In the mirror, in the mirror
One day I'll be there 
I'll be there

Postcards Sent To Your Heart

Make Like A Tree - Music, Vocals
Lucien Dubuis - bass clarinet (Switzerland)

We met with Lucien while were were touring Russia with the most adventourus and wild tour I have ever had. It was called MuzEnergo  - and the concept of all thing was that more then 30 musicians from 10 different countries were put in th bus which was going from Russia to Republic Tuva - that is around 7000km journey. It was lasting for 1 month and almost every 2 days there was a concert where all these musicians were playing on one stage solo shows and joining each other forming new impro bands and totally going crazy. What a beautiful time! I had a dream to make a record with him and amazing sounds of his bass clarinet.

Make Like A Tree & Lucien Dubuis - You Were In Love Too Much
I'm a blind man in your Garden
Trempling down all your plants and flowers 
And you you you you
Were in love Were in love Too much
Were in love Were in love Too much
Were in love Were in love Too much

We    made it through rough Waters
We made it through tough times 
But you never told me that every step I do
Makes you makes you makes you
Cry Every night

Cause you were in love too much
Cause you were in love too much

I was blind I was blind
now my eyes are wide open
I see you Garden broken
And you're gone With no direction
With no hint where to find reflection 
of you
cause you were in love too much

Released on Ears of Bears Record Label

You Were In Love Too Much

Make Like a Tree & Raimundo Santander 
music, vocals - Make Like a Tree
guitars - Raimundo Santander (Chile)

I met Raimundo during our tour in Russia when we spent almost a month in one bus with 10 other bands covering more then 7000 km around the rough roads of Siberia from Moscow down to Republic Tuva borders. It was a great times of MuzEnergo tour. I had such a great inspirational connection with Raimundo and his wife Sol. They were such a great example of happy family of artists. While Raimundo was performing Sol was making digital drawings and streaming them live on the wall. I wanted to make a track together and here we go!

lyrics 
Make Like a Tree & Raimundo Santander - Falling Slowly

I saw you
Walking towards
Crossing the border

of My heart
It was a start
Of our love love love love

Late bar
When you enter
All my    breath is taken

Away
And my body
And all my world is yours 

now
I'm in love
And I'm the happiest man

Falling
Falling slowly
In love love love love

What
 have we done
Where we took the wrong turn

Why
We are away now
Needless to say how

I miss you
I miss you
I miss you

I
miss your smell
I burn in hell

Without you
I'm About to
Die

What
Have we done
To our love love love love

Released on Ears of Bears Record Label

Falling Slowly

vocals, music - Make Like a Tree 
keys - Fima Chupakhin (Ukraine, USA)

I was watching Fima's performances back  in my hometown long time ago. He was always on eof the most talented piano players who I ever met in person.Even though we lived in one city back in Ukraine for decade of years a real meeting happned to be in beautiful island of Bali. We climed a volcano together and magic started happening all around. We had a great time full of creative collaborations and finally made a track together where Fima joined me with his amazing sounds. Welcome to the new life!
This track is about those very special people who we have around us now and if to imagine that next life exists it would be cool to set up a secret place where you can meet up and recognize each other in next life and have a continuation of a beautiful story that will never end. Let this place will be near the sea with a cup of tea.
 
lyrics
What if we are born again
What if we are born again
Let's set up a secret Place Where be could
Meet again
Meet again

By the sea with a cup of tea only you and me
By the sea with a cup of tea only you and me
Standing face to face
Standing face to face

What if we are born again
What if we are born again
I'd rename all cities to your name
Itill be a perfect day
 I hope you love me tgd same

By the sea with a cup of tea only you and me
By the sea with a cup of tea only you and    me
Standing face to face
Standing face to face

Released on Ears of Bears record label

Born Again

Make Like a Tree is a quintessention of travels expressed in music and visual performances created by Sergey Onischenko - artist from Ukraine who is touring round the world and spreading his indie-folk tunes with a touch of non-conformism and Beat Generation ideas.
Soundscapes of Make Like a Tree will bring you to inner world of nature, woods, mountains and songs of whales on the bottom of the ocean.

Music http://makelikeatree.org
Photos http://onisch.com

contact: makelikeatreeband@gmail.com

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