Lean against an old tree trunk, spy through the leaves, balance on a branch, or just watch and wonder as the world goes by: all innocent pleasures that evoke the simplicity and freedom of this duo’s songs.
Treehouse Days explores a playful complicity between Emily’s voice and Boris’ double bass, seeing the world afresh through the eyes of everyday objects and living things. Their intimate dialogue is tinged with nostalgia for treehouse days, those carefree times spent out in the woods.
The duo is remarkable both for its clean, uncluttered sound - an acoustic mix with an occasional zest of electronics - and for the way that bass and vocal lines harmonise and intertwine.
Treehouse Days play their own compositions in which the starting point is a new perspective.
“Elders and Betters”, for example, highlights the complex relationship that trees have experienced with human beings since the dawn of time; “Benchmarks” relates a day in the life of a park bench and its range of feelings, while “Your World” opens our eyes to how a baby reacts on arriving in this new, cold and noisy world.
Specially written lyrics are set to Emily Allison and Boris Schmidt’s music; their style is clearly a product of the world of jazz, but also of unplugged pop or folk and so-called indie.
- Released : 14/03/2025
- Recorded : 09/2024
- Reference : HR039
- Supports : CD, digital
- Sound engineer : Vincent De Bast
- Label : Hypnote Records
- Studio : Studio Pyramide Brussels
