John Metcalfe – Tree

John Metcalfe the Durutti Column violaplaying master who for years has been a composer and arranger for the likes of U2, Coldplay, Peter Gabriel and Blur, as well as cofounder with Tony Wilson of the Factory Classical label had been composing music spontaneously, instinctively, when the idea of Tree arrived. An album that immerses the listener in twenty-four hours of the life of natures most majestic creations, it came from a desire in John to write at scale perhaps a natural reaction for a composer writing out of the silences and solitude of our recent pandemic years.