Hans Stop – European Phonographic

A long time in the making, Trees Up North’s debut album will be released on February 26th.

Trees Up North is the “band” pseudonym of Norwegian singer-songwriter Hans Stop. Stop makes no secret of the fact that this self titled debut album will contain various expressions that have been shaped by his previous diverse musical journeys. What’s common to all the songs on the upcoming album is the atmosphere that 10 days in Parr Street Studio in Liverpool together with his best friends created in itself.

“This was what I really wanted to do. To go to Liverpool with my best buddies and an “everlasting” list of different songs, written over the last ten years in voluntary isolation and solitude. We all rigged up in the same room. We started with song number 1 on that list, and my dedicated music travel companions would then start shaping the sound and expression with me live in the studio. Song by song we would continue down the list until the session ended and the plane brought us back to Norway.”

The creative result is a self titled debut album with 10 songs that in 10 different ways represent Trees Up North’s desire to convey something genuinely alive and organic to the listener: “The music happened in that specific room in Parr Street. Hopefully, all the different moods and expressions this musical collaboration resulted in during the ten days are present on the album. That we managed to capture an atmosphere of collective playing and personal intensity.”

Leading up to the debut of Trees Up North’s debut album comes the new single “Easy”, out February 12th.

Always reaching out and connecting through music, Trees Up North first gives the audience a new musical taste of what they can expect. The new single release, Easy is perhaps the closest Trees Up North comes to a «love ballad» in the sense of bittersweet lyrics and a beautiful melody, with inspiration drawn from classic songwriting in its most melancholic mood. In that sense, Easy represents something different from the two earlier releases, Ladder and Underwater, which sounded more monumental and band orchestrated. Compared to those, Easy is a quiet, melancholic resting place for the romantics among us.

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TREES UP NORTH releases his new single “Ladder” August 28th via European Phonographic.

TREES UP NORTH is the “band” pseudonym of Norwegian singer-songwriter Hans Stop. Stop was born and raised on an old farm in the middle of Norway where he now resides.

Through his strongly personal expression, TREES UP NORTH establishes an organic and pulsating space for the listener where text and music communicate a human need for reflection and maturity. Where understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

From his Nordic exile TREES UP NORTH observes the public noise from the outside world. Surrounded by an increasingly self-centered culture of mass consumption and alienation, he creates music that goes beyond this tyranny of shallow intimacy. A self-imposed solitude has become his creative weapon, creating music that leaves it up to the listener to decide for themselves whether they want to enter his musical universe on their own terms.

“A ladder has two different directions. The upward direction often represents progress and coveted goals a person wants to achieve. The other represents to a greater extent the unknown and foreign, as if one climbs into a darkness that hides the greatest secrets and the deepest thoughts. That someone wants to share this with you can be a blessing or a curse.”

In the process of bringing his music to life, the studio recordings are made together with some of his best friends and fellow musicians during a few winter nights in an unhurried, organic fashion. Here they all manage to capture an atmosphere of collective playing and personal intensity that feels no rush towards immediate release – music for music’s sake that will eventually lead the way to a TREES UP NORTH debut album.

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