Stream and/or download full album or individual tracks at http://wintertreesstandnaked.bandcamp.com/album/the-night-watch.

If you’re a Last.fm user, you can also grab the tracks here: http://www.last.fm/music/Winter+Trees+Stand+Naked

1. One step forward (1:24)
2. The game (2:22)
3. Snow (1:37)
4. A lesson in darkness (1:56)
5. The tenant (1:39)
6. The night watch (1:06)
7. Breath (2:09)
8. Undertow (2:18)
9. Storm clouds (2:53)
10. Dawn (1:36)

Trip hop, ambient, audio collage, nicotine, some hip hop, lots of samples, a few words, ten tracks, nineteen minutes: that is basically “The night watch”, the debut demo album from my new solo project, Winter Trees Stand Naked. It was written and recorded in only three weeks for the 2010 RPM Challenge, so if you’re going to bitch about sound quality or about the songs being too short, put your talent where your mouth is and prove you can do better! Now seriously, I think what really matters more here is the fact that this challenge accomplished what it was meant to: to give me that kick in the ass I needed to get moving and get something done again.

Although this may appear quite different from almost anything I’ve done before, there is still of course some relation to my previous projects: the atmospheres and sample collages of the late Morpheus can definitively be heard in some places, I’ve used trip hop rhythms before in some Chaos Condensed tracks and, of course, in some ways spoken word is not so different from hip hop… In fact, I don’t see it at all as a rupture with my past, but simply as the continuation of that path I set foot on years ago: the one less travelled by.