Originally under the working title, "Cloud People", this concept album was created in collaboration with several guest producers, sonic archives and instrumentalists over the past two years.

"Cirrus Sapiens" can mean many things...it is the first new Skytree album since 11.11.11's, "Crystal Consciousness", and includes 12 tracks with a total runtime (depending on interface) of 55:55.

Available for download on Bandcamp: https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/cirrus-sapiens

Cirrus Sapiens

11.11.11's Crystal Consciousness has been archaeologically scrubbed, expanded and restored to bring deep ravines of lost detail back into the mix across all original tracks. It has been rewilded as the Ascended Addition as of 4.24.24, available on all major streaming platforms and for download on https://skytree.bandcamp.com

May the forest be with you 🌳💎🌳
- Skytree

Crystal Consciousness: Ascended Addition

Harmonic Residents

Created in honor of Boards of Canada and Warp Records: https://boardsofcanada.com | https://warp.net

Downloads include bonus MIDI files, transcribed for each track. Available on Bandcamp: https://skytree.bandcamp.com

Videos by @whirlwindvisuals on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@skytree | https://www.youtube.com/@WhirlwindVisuals

Original tracks by Boards Of Canada. Not for profit. Released in partnership with @timewheel: https://timewheel.net

Tribute To Boards Of Canada

Forest Moon is a track made for drives through foggy woods at night, with the windows down. This remix/reconstruction is inspired by the jams I had in my head to the original in these conditions, many years and years ago, imagining all the forest moons out there in the sky |

Accompanying music video by @whirlwindvisuals | https://youtu.be/zMYqJPmzByE

Original unreleased tune by https://soundcloud.com/boardsofcanada |

Created in tribute to BoC & Warp Records |

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Boards of Canada - Forest Moon (Skytree Reconstruct)

The first preview track from "Cirrus Sapiens" debuted via The Untz (www.theuntz.com).   New album, released May 20th ::

http://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/cirrus-sapiens 

Collaboration with fellow producer LuneCell (www.soundcloud.com/lunecell).  This track is tuned to 432 Hz = A rather than the modern 440 Hz = A.  Sometimes referred to as natural tuning, I decided to make the switch after finding out that the Sun itself resonates within the same scale of frequencies, along with many traditional instruments including singing bowls and didgeridoos. 

Mastered by Brendan Connors at Studio Metronome: http://studiometronome.com/

Free/donation

SkyCell ft. LuneCell

This is a tribute to @boardsofcanada, @warprecords and the craft of remixing - an aspirational love letter to some of my favorite music | Julie And Candy is my favorite track by BoC |

This remix is accompanied by a music video created by @whirlwindvisuals, featuring old 8mm footage from my personal archives, cut with vintage nature docs | https://youtu.be/9DztfosctMk |

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Boards Of Canada - Julie & Candy (Skytree Anthem)

Remix for the very talented Mimi Page...loved working with her etherial voice and keys. http://soundcloud.com/mimi-page

Mimi Page - Lullaby For The Lonely (Skytree Remix)

Remix of "Acrocinus" for CalicoLeaf: https://soundcloud.com/calicolea

Download here: http://www.beatport.com/release/acronius/1168511

Released via Vermin Street Records on 10/16/13: 
https://soundcloud.com/verminstreet

CalicoLeaf - Acrocinus (Skytree's Neotropical Remix)

Original ambient mix created for Next Level Radio on Glitch.fm. Accompanied by an audio interview (link coming soon). Includes 5 unreleased tracks and spans 10 years of my discography, for your maximal chillage enjoyment.  Aired Sunday, December 1, 2013. Remastered and re-released July 13, 2019. Download for free/donation on Bandcamp: https://skytree.bandcamp.com/track/glacial-mantra-mix

Glacial Mantra Mix

Released on the Winter Solstice of 2013, celebrate the return of the light with this live set from Sonic Blossom.  Recorded direct from the soundboard on 10/11/13, and remixed and remastered exclusively for Destination Burning Man.com and Sacred Bass.org.  This mix also contains a brand new exclusive preview track from the upcoming album, "Cirrus Sapiens".  Full track listing is below.

This mix was is accompanied by an in-depth interview with inspirations, intentions, techniques and future plans at sacredbass.org/music and www.destinationburningman.com/stuff/podcasts.

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” 
~ Edgar Allan Poe

Track listing:
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Crazy Fingers' Earth Sing remix
1:42 - Biolumigen's Earth Sing remix
5:23 - Skytree's Anthony Ayahuasca remix (original by Space Jesus)
9:49 - eelko's Night Heron remix
12:32 - sAuce's See-Through Time remix
15:05 - SkyCell, new collaboration w/Lunecell
17:20 - Space Jesus' Quartz Resonance remix
22:01 - Skytree's Clay Feet Long Road remix (original by Erothyme)
25:42 - Skytree's Sweet Antler Anthem remix (originals by lespecial)
27:56 - Skytree's Acrocinus remix (original by Calicoleaf)
31:29 - Mana Machine, collaboration w/Technicolor Lenses and Erothyme
34:37 - See-Through Space
38:10 - Skytree's The Sky remix (original by Something Fiction)
41:55 - Outro

Sonic Blossom Live Mix (for Sacredbass.org)

Collaborative track featuring visionary artist and musician, @michaelgarfield, along with Dennis McKenna via DMT:RMX - The Spirit Molecule Remix Project: http://dmtrmx.com

Track 1 from "Cirrus Sapiens", released May 20th (digital and CD):
http://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/cirrus-sapiens

Originally under the working title, "Cloud People", this concept album was created in collaboration with several guest producers and instrumentalists over the past two years. 

"Cirrus Sapiens" is intended to mean many things, which can be interpreted by the individual listener. It is the first new Skytree album since 11.11.11's, "Crystal Consciousness", and includes 12 tracks with a total runtime (depending on interface) of 55:55.

Free/Donation

God Detector ft. Michael Garfield

Track 4 from the new album "Cirrus Sapiens", out now: https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/cirrus-sapiens

Cooperative vocal and texture programming :: Erothyme
http://erothyme.bandcamp.com

Vocals :: Jackson Whalan
http://jacksonwhalan.bandcamp.com

Guitar :: Esseks
http://esseks.bandcamp.com/

Sonic artifacts :: pine needles and cliff reverberations

Lyrics ::

Receiving, and feeding
Oxygen breathing
Rinsing, repeating 
Human and machine are makin’ meaning
Passions, impressions
Birthing, learning lessons
Succession of progression
Answer this question

Diving into endless dimensions
Expanding intention
Disbanding convention
In the heart lies perception 
Rising in direction
All phenomena manifest in perfection

Blessings and prayers to babies newborn
Sacred songs giving growth to form
Culminating storm
Dissolving the norm
Fractals of novelty
The soul becomes warm

Searching home
Earth’s surface I roam
Reflection of your mind like a geodesic dome
Climbing and rhyming over valleys and mountains
Bathing in sound resonating all around us

Perfecting timing for the Higher Self to find me
Now I’m grounded
Catching leaves from a Sky Tree
Abiding mindfully
Encompassing a divine spectacle
Of sights for eyes that see

Life-force, vitality
Reciting a recital of mental energy 
Healin’ like a pharmacy 
Discovering cosmic harmony (cosmic harmony) 
Examined like optometry 

Empirically miracles appear impossibly 
Transforming this Matrix into an Odyssey 
Time let free from bondage of philosophy
And speculative probability 

Letting go of thought
Tune into the waves of the heart space 
Everything in its right place (everything in its right place) 
Everything in its right place (everything in its right place) 
Everything in its right place (everything in its right place) 

Letting go of thought
Tune into the waves of the heart space 
Everything in its right place (everything in its right place) 
Everything in its right place (everything in its right place) 
Everything in its right place (everything in its right place) 

In stillness I find my being’s capability
Fantasies with celestial entities
Representing higher consciousness indefinitely
Eventually we all return to the origin we formed in

Letting go of thought
Tune into the waves of the heart space 
Everything in its right place (everything in its right place) 
Everything in its right place (everything in its right place) 
Everything in its right place (everything in its right place) 

Mana Machine ft. Erothyme & Technicolor Lenses

Track 11 from "Cirrus Sapiens", released May 20th, 2014: 
https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/cirrus-sapiens

Produced in tandem with @supersillyus and @dvsmusic.

Vocals :: Alan Snyder.

Cooperative programming, blips and bass :: Supersillyus 
http://supersillyus.bandcamp.com 

Strings :: D.V.S.* 
http://dvsmusic.bandcamp.com 

Additional drum machines :: @heissmusik
http://heissmusic.bandcamp.com 

Sonic artifacts :: sounds from the Sun, and a bald eagle webcam in Wisconsin

Hexeract ft. Supersillyus & Cloudchord

Listen or download here for free or donation: https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/ganesha

I am deeply grateful to release "Ganesha" for World Elephant Day, August 12th, a charity collaboration to raise funds and awareness for the protection our incredible, endangered pachyderm friends. 100% of all proceeds go directly to helping elephants via World Animal Protection US, an official partner in this release: www.Worldanimalprotection.us.org  

My brilliant friend, Indian illustrator Archan Nair (www.archann.net), created the all-original, beautiful depiction of Ganesha specifically for this project. The Hindu elephant god, Ganesha is widely revered as the remover of obstacles, the patron of arts, sciences, intellect and wisdom. 

The music itself centers around recordings of elephant vocalizations, pitched to the key of the track, elephant footsteps timed to the beat, and three Ganesha mantras, provided by @SriKaloGY, with additional vocals by Laura Fay Lewis and Alokananda Walla. Fellow producer @PERICLES provided many of the percussive and bass sounds to draw from as well. A background field recording of African savannah runs throughout the entire track. 

Downloads include two additional songs; an ambient piece titled "Deep Time" that spans over 10 minutes, intended for contemplation and meditation, and a hidden instrumental edit of "Ganesha", included exclusively in the download version. 

In 2012 alone, an estimated 15,000 African elephants perished due to poaching for ivory, a material which could easily be replaced by more sustainable sources to create carvings, art and products. This project is meant to show how we can still create beautiful works inspired by these magnificent beings, in ways that do not endanger or harm them, but instead provide the help and support they need so much at this time. 

Please feel free to share this far and wide - the more people see this, the bigger the difference we can make. Wishing you all blessed journeys, and on behalf of all involved in this project, including our elephant friends, thank you for your support! 

Namaste, 
- Evan "Skytree" Snyder

Ganesha ft. Srikalogy

Track 4 from the album Infraplanetary, available on Bandcamp: 
https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/infraplanetary

Featuring vocals & lyrics by Jackson Whalan: https://jacksonwhalan.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/jackson-whalan

"This is for the humans living 10,000 years from now
With radioactive capsules, thousands of feet underground
Grabbin the mic to warn you of these hazardous sites
For those who lack the sight in the black of the night

The least good that we can do is form an Atomic Priesthood
To keep the future species from going where no one should
We bury the mistakes of past nuclear waste
Hidden underground for future races to face

It's our task to leave signs for civilizations to trace
But who's to say what language these generations will embrace
Basic symbols up for vast interpretation
Disasters resulting from grave mistranslation

This is not a place of honor and glory
This is a deep geological nuclear repository
Reaching through a millennium to give some education
And preserve the evolution of beings and vegetation

Imagine the future, all that's in front of me
All this timespan...wonder what it's gonna be
Wonder what's gonna be, wonder what it's gonna be...

Thinkin farther ahead than the mind can handle
The longer the timespan, the more time is a gamble
The future is non-existent so there is no example
Will you recognize it if we leave you with a sample? 

The evidence is ample that society's in shambles
Systems for communicating from the past, dismantled
We still try to decipher ancient sites
Writings on the walls, in no way will it suffice

We gotta pass down our knowledge before it's demolished
Oral traditions, from the speakings of scholars
In the future we will pay the price with wisdom not dollars
Refining every message 'til it's shiny and polished

And pass it down to all generations unborn
Descendants from the centuries beyond us, taking form
When you encounter danger, give praise you've been warned
Because knowledge survives, through the deadliest storms

Imagine the future, all that's in front of me
All this timespan...wonder what it's gonna be
Wonder what's gonna be, wonder what it's gonna be..."

All rights to the owner of the recorded work reserved. © 2020

Released in partnership with Timewheel.net

Infraplanetary

Atomic Priest Ft. Jackson Whalan

Track 1 from Harmonic Residents, released on September 15, 2023: skytree.bandcamp.com/album/harmonic-residents

Artwork by Marty Millar: www.instagram.com/martymillar

Released with support from www.timewheel.net. 

Available on digital and analog formats at https://skytree.bandcamp.com

All instrumentation, composition, mixing and mastering by Skytree.

Wishing you good journeys. (( d -__- b ))

All rights of the recorded work reserved. © 2023

Memory Cavern

Track 2 from Harmonic Residents, released on September 15, 2023: https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/harmonic-residents

Artwork by Marty Millar: www.instagram.com/martymillar

Dedicated to all acoustic adventurers.

No AI was used in the making of this track, just Skytree intelligence.

Wishing you good journeys. (( d -__- b ))

All rights of the recorded work reserved. © 2023

Drumlin Fields

Track 3 from Harmonic Residents, released on September 15, 2023: https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/harmonic-residents

Artwork by Marty Millar: www.instagram.com/martymillar

Dedicated to all astral travelers. May you journey well.

Astral Projector

Track 4 from Harmonic Residents, released on September 15, 2023. Piano and additional sound design by @enigmada (Adam Coleman).

Available on cassette and all digital formats on Bandcamp: https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/harmonic-residents

Artwork by Marty Millar: www.instagram.com/martymillar

Released in partnership with Timewheel: www.Timewheel.net

Airglow Ft. Enigmada

Track 5 from Harmonic Residents, released on September 15, 2023: https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/harmonic-residents

Artwork by Marty Millar: www.instagram.com/martymillar

Dedicated to all the places lost in time...

Forgotten Plateau

This track was previously available on a compilation that disappeared around 2013, but is finally seeing the light of day again, remastered and restored. It's been added to Crystal Consciousness (Ascended Addition) where it belongs, out on 4.24.24: https://skytree.bandcamp.com

Released in collaboration with @timewheel: https://timewheel.net

Crystal Consciousness (Ascended Addition)

Akasha

Music video for "See-Through Time" featuring David Elsewhere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdfRbCnKpP8

From the album, "Crystal Consciousness", released on 11.11.11.  Name your own price (including free) to download on Bandcamp: http://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/crystal-consciousness


See-Through Time

No samples of the original track by @boardsofcanada were used in the making of this track, but it is made in homage to them |  https://boardsofcanada.com | 

Live instrumentation by @papadosio | https://papadosio.com | Stems from BoC to @oddnosdam | 

Music video by @whirlwindvisuals, also inspired by the original under @warprecords | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBEpq2gPlDg | 

Released with @timewheel | https://timewheel.net | Not for profit | 

More info | https://bocpages.org/wiki/Dayvan_Cowboy | ++

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Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy (Skytree Resample)

Featuring piano and vocals by my dear friend and brilliant musician @mimi-page. Remastered for the Ascended Addition of Crystal Consciousness, released on 4.24.24 in partnership with @timewheel. Full album available on Bandcamp and all major streaming platforms: https://skytree.bandcamp.com

Original version released on 11.11.11.

Neverending World (ft. Mimi Page)

Track 5 from the album "Crystal Consciousness", released 11.11.11.  Vocalizations by @nickwishard. Remastered and released as part of the Ascended Addition, released on 4.24.24. Streaming on all major platforms. Download on Bandcamp (name your own price): skytree.bandcamp.com/album/crystal-consciousness

Sample from Joseph Medicine Crow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Medicine_Crow

"You make all things and direct them in their ways, oh Grandfather.

Thank you, Grandfather, for making me a human being. Thank you for helping me to become a warrior."

Agartha

Track 6 from the album "Crystal Consciousness", released 11.11.11.  Vocalizations by @nickwishard. Remastered and released as part of the Ascended Addition, released on 4.24.24. Streaming on all major platforms. Download on Bandcamp (name your own price): https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/crystal-consciousness-ascended-addition

Antediluvian Dub

Track 8 from the album Crystal Consciousness, released 11.11.11. Remastered and released as part of the Ascended Addition, released on 4.24.24. Streaming on all major platforms. Download on Bandcamp (name your own price): https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/crystal-consciousness-ascended-addition

Quartz Resonance

Track 9 from the album Crystal Consciousness (11.11.11). Remastered and released as part of the Ascended Addition (4.24.24), in partnership with Timewheel.net. Streaming on all major platforms. Download on Bandcamp (name your own price): skytree.bandcamp.com/album/crystal-consciousness

To Illumination

Track 11 from the album "Crystal Consciousness", released 11.11.11.  Remastered and released as part of the Ascended Addition, released on 4.24.24. Streaming on all major platforms. Download on Bandcamp (name your own price): https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/crystal-consciousness-ascended-addition

Night Heron

Track 12 from the album "Crystal Consciousness", released 11.11.11.  Remastered and released as part of the Ascended Addition, released on 4.24.24. Streaming on all major platforms. Download on Bandcamp (name your own price): https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/crystal-consciousness-ascended-addition

Echo Canyon

15th and final track from the album "Crystal Consciousness", released 11.11.11. Vocals by Laura Karuna. Remastered and released as part of the Ascended Addition, released on 4.24.24. Streaming on all major platforms. Download on Bandcamp (name your own price): skytree.bandcamp.com/album/crystal-consciousness

Cosmic Prana

Track 2 from Cirrus Sapiens, released May 20, 2014: https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/cirrus-sapiens

Great Central Sun

Track 2 on Mineral Logic, released the last day of summer, September 22, 2015. 
Now available for pre-order w/ instant download of Phototrope: http://skytree.bandcamp.com
Mastered by Brendan Connors: www.studiometronome.com
Distributed by TIMEWHEEL: www.timewheel.net

phototrope (ˈfəʊtəʊˌtrəʊp) 
noun
1: A type of robot that either seeks or flees from sources of bright light.
2: A phototropic substance or organism.

photo|trop¦ism (ˌfəʊtə(ʊ)ˈtrəʊpɪz(ə)m/ /fəʊˈtɒtrəˌpɪz(ə)m/)
noun
The orientation of a plant or other organism in response to light, either towards the source of light (positive phototropism) or away from it (negative phototropism). Compare with heliotropism, phototaxis.

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"I AM RECEIVING A MESSAGE." - Optimus

Mineral Logic

Buy/stream

Phototrope

Inspired by recent understanding of dinosaurs' striking similarity to modern birds, this recording consists of several large bird species pitched down multiple octaves, slowed, convoluted and harmonized to replicate what dinosaurs may have genuinely sounded like in the flesh, millions of years ago.  Such giant creatures would undoubtedly have been capable of generating incredible bass or infrasound, even lower than some large birds that still live today.  A field recording of a forest by my friend Luke Hazard from West Virginia has been mixed underneath throughout to join the sounds together with continuous ambience, as a montaged menagerie of species may have sounded in the far distant past.  Created in Ableton Live. 

Connect for lessons in Ableton, Moog, production & sound design in NYC:
www.brooklynhomeofmusic.com/

Scientifically Simulated Dinosaur Vocalizations

Track 1 from the album "Crystal Consciousness", released 11.11.11.  Vocals by @Choric-Lumina. Remastered and released as part of the Ascended Addition, released on 4.24.24. Streaming on all major platforms. Download on Bandcamp (name your own price): skytree.bandcamp.com/album/crystal-consciousness

Earth Sing (ft. Choric Lumina)

First official remix from the upcoming album "See-Through Space", also featuring remixes from Bird of Prey, Profresher Billy Blacklight, Sina, sAuce, Space Jesus, Soulacybin, Beard-O-Bees (Jesse Miller of Lotus), Christ. (formerly of Boards of Canada), Shamanic Technology, Mikey Likes It, and more, available here:
skytree.bandcamp.com/album/treemixes-v1

More sonic shamanism from Biolumigen for free download here: http://soundcloud.com/biolumigen

Cover art by Skytree.  Full resolution here: http://bit.ly/LuJZKh

Earth Sing (Biolumigen's Starseed Remix)

From the new EP, "Sacred Singularity", released on 10.11.12: http://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-singularity-ep

Remix of the track "Anthony Ayahuasca" by Space Jesus. This is not an endorsement of that artist, but rather an artifact of a past time that carries meaning for others, and thus is retained for posterity only. 

Artwork by Jamie Kaminskas: http://www.facebook.com/moonmandalaart

Space Jesus - Anthony Ayahuasca (Skytree's Quetzalcoatl remix)

From Sacred Singularity EP, released 11 October 2012:
http://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-singularity-ep

"And we were runnin 
For a reason 
For the burning 
In our veins 

And we were runnin 
Just need to get away 
Left our cubicles in little flaming piles 
I need to feel something different 
For just a little while 

Tell them I'm sorry 
Sorry for leaving 
No more runnin 
To find meaning 
Now I'm stayin 
I'm staying with the wolves 

We're gone 
And we're never comin back 

Runnin with the wolves 
We're screaming at the stars 
Runnin with the wolves 
Runnin with the stars 

Left all our clothes 
With the car back by the road 
And we were runnin 
For a reason 

You can burn all my mail 
And disconnect my phone 
We left all we own 
In a hole in our back yard 

And we were runnin 
For a reason 
Runnin with the wolves 
Screaming at the stars 
I need to feel something different for just a little while" 

- Craig Minowa

Original material by Cloud Cult: www.cloudcult.com 
Production and mastering by Skytree 
Cello and vocals by Katherine S. An

Cloud Cult - Running With The Wolves (Skytree Remix)

From the album, "Crystal Consciousness", released on 11.11.11.  Remastered and released as part of the Ascended Addition, released on 4.24.24. Streaming on all major platforms. Name your own price (including free) to download on Bandcamp: https://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/crystal-consciousness-ascended-addition

"I told him that in thirty years his ten thousand oaks would be magnificent. He answered quite simply that if God granted him life, in thirty years he would have planted so many more that these ten thousand would be like a drop of water in the ocean."

Ten Thousand Oaks

Track 1 from my first official album, "Knotwork", released on 2005 on Earstroke Records: http://www.earstroke.com/

Full album download available here for free or donation: http://skytree.bandcamp.com/album/knotwork

...when recording the random radio stations for the opening, I was amazed to find I'd sliced it right to a part where two separate radio stations say "a giant" + "tree!" consecutively.  Life's musical synchronicities. ^_^

An Effort for a Translucent Globe

Tribute To Boards Of Canada | New EP | 9.6.24 | skytree.bandcamp.com | timewheel.net

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