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Have no fear, firmly embrace the audacity that lies within you to enter the Mind Maze. To achieve this, Trees Speak invites you to imagine the desperate, passionate, yet peaceful act of a random cerebral gunshot fired into a crowd: a call to murder. Of whom?! But … has DADA never spoken to you? This is only an optical illusion, just put the photographic plate of the figure in the acid bath first.
To fully understand this new album, create in your mind a misty labyrinth of distorting mirrors filled with the excitement of a film noir in which the victim, the murderer and the detective are one and the same but do not know each other. If each one says the exact opposite, it is because they are right. You might say that this is a paradox. That is DADA speaking to you. DADA always expresses itself in violent acts that reason could not fill with words or conventions. Where the yes and the no meet to witness the birth of the renewed human being in pain.
Let’s prepare for the great spectacle of catastrophe, the fire, the decay! Publishing a critique about technology has now become a matter of civic courage. Not for Trees Speak. We are not naive enough to believe in the sterile need of the illiterate bourgeois to make old progress. After all, there is no more classical achievement of surrealism than the ensemble of a machine and the human being standing before it. If the world were to plunge into a state of collective pathology, then anti-Dadaism would be a disease.
Let us prepare for the suppression of grief! I know you expect some explanation about Trees Speak. I won’t give any. Explain to me why you exist. You don’t know. Pure psychic automatism will simply prevent man from becoming a mechanical automaton. The uncertainty principle, antimatter, relativity, Hitler, relativity, cybernetics, DNA, game theory, etc. There is something in the air. Science describes the world but does not explain it. Our feelings are behind our actions. We live in a particularly curious time. We are astonished to discover that moldy progress has once again made a pact with barbarism. All this was an attempt to render impotent the absurd and its mad game of nothingness. It has failed.
DADA has therapeutic properties.
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☞No one should ignore D∀ᗡA.
Trees Speak :…..(Geistermaschine)……………..…………………………………………………………..…………D…………D……………D……………………D……………D…………D…………De…..………Des………Desert…..is……a……safe…space……for……creativity……It……………It…………It……….……It……takes…….time…….to……appreciate……it……it……it……it..………………It..grows…..out…of……us……in….a….…way……..we…can’t……comprehend……end………end………end………….d…..d………d…….…….DaDa……………………………………………………………………………………………………….…V…………V………V…Vertigo…of…Flaws…was……written…without…………thought…………………but…with…our……emotions………(drums)……(drums)……(drums)………A…lot…of…it…was…..done…..…separately,…one……part…..in…New…York…and…..…one…part.…in…Tucson…..….during…COVID……..……We…wanted..…to……make….……something………….…ImPeRFeCt……It……was…..difficult……to…….make………But…..it…….also…….felt…..…like…….………something…..…we…had………to……do…………It…was…….…CHAOS……to…..…put…….…that…out……of……our…chest…………………………..………∞+1=∞……1=0……………………..……………01010111……..01001111……..01010010……….01001100………..01000100………01010111……………………………(BIP)…………………(BIP)……………………(BIP)………Mind….Maze…nimmt…..die….Zuhörer…mit….auf…eine….Klangreise….durch….verschiedene….Stimmungen…..und….Dynamiken,…die….sowohl….Schönheit….als….auch….Dunkelheit….umfassen…..Wir…hoffen,….dass….das….Album….die….angeborene….Neugier….des….menschlichen….Geistes…und….unseren….angeborenen….Wunsch….einfängt,…sich….in….die…unerforschten….Bereiche…unserer…Existenz….zu…wagen………(BIP)…………………(BIP)……………………(BIP)………….01000001…….01010010………01010111………….01000101………….01000010…………………………………………….…………………(uuuuuuuuu)……………..……(uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu)……..…………………(uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu).…………We……speak…in…………very…….……abstract…ways……about….a…..spiritual…………connection……….…We…are……trying…to………convey……something…….that……is……not…….tangible,………an……emotion…It…is…..very…..special……It……is……something…..we…..have…..done…….for……years………We……don’t…even…need…….words……..to……..communicate……It…….is……so……OOOOOORRRRRRGAAAAAAANICCCCCCC……It….is……..like……an….exploration…There…..is…..a….lot….of…..driving…….In…..some…..songs….there….is….a…..detour……It…..is….easy….to…..FALL…out….IN…..THE…..same….direct…..path…..……A………movie………would……be………the………next………fulfilling………step……for……us………We………bring………ideas……from………classic……films………But……if………people……can………create……a……movie……for……a…minute…in…their…minds,……that…is……the……most…beautiful…thing…we…can…ever…achieve…….Songs….are….about…..things….that…..exist…..and….they…..are…..waiting….for…..somebody…….to…….find…..them..…This……year,……a……machine……said…that……it……could……feel……emotions……This…is…it……We…are…already…in…the…future…We…are…already…in…a…SIMULATION………The…way……we…approach……music……is……very……specific……to…what…we…are…trying…to……do…….Music……creates…..shapes….…Even…if……it……sounds……abstract,…we…are…both…looking……for…something…Even…though…we…don’t…know…what…it…is……We…both…know…it…together…When…we…are……recording,…we…know…what…we…are…telling…each…other…The…thread…between…the…records…is…the…relationship…between…us…It…is……constantly………evolving…It……..is….always….changing……It…is…an…evolving……being……It…is…not…a…band…It…is…a…LIFE…FORCE……………………………………………BA……BOOM………………………………………………………………………
Personne ne peut échapper au sort. Personne ne peut échapper au labyrinthe. Il n’y a que le labyrinthe qui puisse vous faire échapper au sort. Der Minotaurus hat einen Zauber in das Labyrinth unseres Geistes gelegt.
Trees Speak is the brainchild of Damian Diaz and Daniel Martin Diaz.
Mind Maze is the band’s sixth studio album, released on the British label Soul Jazz Records. The cover art is a collaboration between artist Charlie Elms, painter Genevieve Zacconi and graphic designer Eric Adrian Lee.
Photo credit: Jacob D Gonzalez (from left to right: Gabriel Sullivan, Damian Diaz, Craig Dreyer, Alex Pope, Daniel Martin Diaz) at the Mighty Toad studio in Brooklyn in June 2022.
