Interview with Lost in the Trees

indie rock with a symphonic edge hi I’m
mahalo common and welcome to
watchmojo.com today we’ll be speaking
with lost in the trees
the brush and
a pain
so i’m here with Ari and Emma from lost
in the trees can you guys tell us how
the band originated and whose part of
the bend I guess it started as a bedroom
project just me in a four-track in my
bedroom and then after college trying to
learn how to play the songs out live and
getting my friends involved like Emma
over here Emma and I knew each other
from tricky records a small label in
North Carolina and working with
different bands and then some people who
I met at college or just like hanging
fliers up in a music hall building or on
myspace
I am
at this point we have seven people
playing in the band most of us started
playing with Ari about three and a half
years ago and for the first couple of
years there’s kind of a rotating cast of
characters just various people from the
north carolina scenes
man
you guys are called lost in the trees
can you tell me where the name
originated I’ll have a good story for
that any story um I don’t know it kind
of has a storytelling element to it so I
wanted to have a name that maybe put
some sort of vibe into somebody’s head
when they heard it or some little story
a beginning or an end to a story I don’t
know time tomm sweet says you’re getting
older getting older are you growing cold
your music is very different because it
has all these instruments what inspired
you to do such music I guess I grew up
listening to pop music like most people
and I kind of latched on to the
orchestra texture that’s in maybe the
Beatles or the Beach Boys kind of
followed that into listening to film
music and that led me into listening to
classical music and it was just a really
inspiring experience learning about that
genre and I just wanted to incorporate a
little bit of that into my songwriting
and it’s just more interesting to me
than electric guitars and stuff like
that although i do like electric guitars
now what’s the difference between a
songwriter and a music composer for me
using the techniques that I’ve learned
in school and trying to write in a
certain style especially in the
classical style it just takes a little
more discipline and concentration not
that songwriting doesn’t but it’s like
kind of a different part of your brain
the classical stuff might be a little
more formulaic whereas the songwriting
for me anyway can be me just picking up
a guitar and seeing what comes out of my
mouth I start singing or writing some
lyrics down
ah
I can’t do both at the same time I have
to kind of be a songwriter or composing
I can’t switch back and forth in the
same day it like take so you know a few
days for me to really get in the groove
as far as voice leading things properly
and orchestrating things in a way that I
like and just kind of understanding that
genre because for me it doesn’t come
very natural just because it’s a fairly
new thing for me this far studying
classical music but I love it so I keep
trying thank you so much for taking the
time to speak with us it was a pleasure
thank you very much cheers