Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The creation of a jungle stems from life being born alongside a river and seeing the shrubs and grasses unveil something quite astonishing and beautiful, a large impressive swathe of land turned into a landscape of biodiversity, of variety, and of stunning discovery…the creation of television might be one of the single reasons in which the human race, although improved by the flow of information, has been suckered into focusing on the flammable toxic that is programming, the allusion of education in the form of indoctrination.
Providing such propaganda for trees, might on the face of a single look might cause an issue of providing disinformation for the valuable sentience of the mighty Oak, the bashful Weeping Willow, and the seductive Maple, but when presented by the generosity of performance by the colourful minds of Jonathan Markwood’s Hoo-Hah Conspiracy, Television For Trees sounds like one of the finest propositions of the year; a reverberation of all who wish to capture the carbon effect and offer life sustaining music in return.
All trees have a story, all forests have a song, and Jonathan Markwood’s Hoo-Hah Conspiracy have the courage of composition and forthright air of beauty as they bring tracks such as Under Umbrellas. Circus Radio, Song For Sunday, Heal, and the album’s superb opener in Man Who Fell To Earth to the ears of all who shelter at some point under the protective realm of nature.
The sound is one of continuance, of overcoming the odds, of prevailing against the fashionable voices who declare the land free of inspiration, and in the effect of the upbeat, almost progressive and certainly eloquent, the wind that shakes and blows in fierce determination to quell the might of the forest, is soon dispelled, leaving Jonathan Markwood’s Hoo-Hah Conspiracy standing tall and proud, and rightly, elegantly so.
The touch of 80s big sound, the underpin of a disco beat, of 21st Century insecurities held tightly across bark and flash, across muscle and branch and roots, is for all to fall for, to hug with appreciation, to benefit from as one would in a forest offering another world for the human eye to witness, and for the soul to be enamoured by.
Allow the senses to witness how Television For Trees can be a boon for human kind, for the volume is such that it amplifies greatness.
Ian D. Hall