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The Fruit Tree Foundation - First Edition

Review by Sean Thomas

Conceived, recorded and finished in a matter of days - warts and all - for a cause everyone involved clearly had a lot of good feeling towards; something that comes across throughout this fine collection of songs.»

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the fruit tree foundation is an independent project that grew from the scottish mental health arts and film festival. led by emma pollock (formerly of the delgados) and rod jones (idlewild), the fruit tree foundation also features james graham (twilight sad), scott hutchison (frightened rabbit), jill o'sullivan (sparrow and the workshop), alasdair roberts, james yorkston, karine polwart and jenny reeve. the artists wrote and rehearsed the album over a long weekend in a remote perthshire farmhouse and recorded the final album in chem19 studios. the songs were written with a view to focussing on issues of mental health and wellbeing. the artwork was designed by aidan moffat. the album was originally intended to be sold at two special shows during the festival but a limited amount of stock (1,000 copies) is now being made available for retail.
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