{"id":11280,"date":"2015-11-04T06:21:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11280"},"modified":"2015-11-02T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T20:23:37","slug":"towers-and-trees-hope-to-use-the-west-coast-to-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/11\/04\/towers-and-trees-hope-to-use-the-west-coast-to-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Towers and Trees hope to use The West Coast<\/em> to connect"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a whirlwind three years for Adrian Chalifour. After the release of Towers and Trees\u2019 debut EP, Broken Record<\/i>, <\/i>the frontman for the Victoria rock outfit has kept himself busy.<\/p>\n

Between a slew of tour dates, including a standout show at Rifflandia, the group has released their sophomore effort, The West Coast.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s very ambitious, very rich, very dynamic,\u201d Chalifour says about The West Coast.<\/i> \u201cThose are the three words I think of when I talk about the album. A criticism of this album that I would be happy to hear is that it\u2019s overly ambitious, that it tries to do too much, because that was the intent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Broken Record<\/i> was largely a solo effort, a passion project recorded in a friend\u2019s living room. The West Coast <\/i>is more focused, featuring the production efforts of Alex Aligizakis and the contribution of Towers and Trees\u2019 ever-evolving lineup. The growth of the band was a key inspiration for the recording of The West Coast.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Victoria\u2019s Towers and Trees will be playing their next local show in January of 2016 at Sugar (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe went back into the studio because Broken Record<\/i> didn\u2019t sound like Towers and Trees anymore,\u201d says Chalifour. \u201cBetween the first album and the second album we had turned into a nine-piece band. I took these songs to the group and we turned them from these songs I played in my bedroom to these rich folk productions we knew we were capable of because of the sounds we were achieving on stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group tries to focus their efforts while playing live shows into creating an honest connection with their audience. Towers and Trees hope to transpose that energy into their latest album. It makes sense that Chalifour aims for this, considering where his musical journey began.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe place I learned to play music was the church,\u201d he says. \u201cThe thing about playing music in that kind of environment is that it\u2019s not a performance: it\u2019s a means of bringing a room full of people together for a common purpose. By total coincidence, almost all of the musicians who have been a part of Towers and Trees have learned to play music in a church.\u201d<\/p>\n

That environment also helps fuel the creative process for Chalifour. He uses songwriting as a method of self-exploration; the creation of the album was a cathartic process for the frontman.<\/p>\n

\u201cMusic was and still is a spiritual journey,\u201d he says. \u201cIt really started as a way to connect with something deep inside of you. When you\u2019re 13 or 14 you\u2019re just a bucket of angst. But that\u2019s what it was about for me: it\u2019s about getting raw and real and connecting with something.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first Towers and Trees <\/i>album was influenced by a desire to uproot and escape. This time around, Chalifour has confronted his feeling of stagnancy head on, and also addressed how the west coast has helped shape him into the man he is today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s called The West Coast<\/i> because you can be standing on the shore here on a sunny day and it\u2019s this pristine, calm, gorgeous, gentle thing. And you can be on the same shoreline in November and it\u2019s rough and it\u2019s rugged and it\u2019s raw. I think that really speaks to the dynamics of the record.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it all comes down to it, the album is about Chalifour\u2019s life, and it\u2019s about where Chalifour lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the stories and all the scenes of my life that have unfolded, they\u2019ve all happened here,\u201d he says. \u201cThis was the setting, this was the backdrop. It was very important to pay homage to that, and while I still wish to uproot and see other parts of the world, the reality is this is my home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a whirlwind three years for Adrian Chalifour. After the release of Towers and Trees\u2019 debut EP, Broken Record, the frontman for the Victoria rock outfit has kept himself busy. Between a slew of tour dates, including a standout show at Rifflandia, the group has released their sophomore effort, The West Coast. \u201cI think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-november-4-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11282,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions\/11282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}