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Treefingers (Single)

by Wooden Elephant

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Radiohead's 'Treefingers' arr. Ian Anderson/Wooden Elephant.
Taken from the album 'LANDSCAPES, KNIVES & GLUE – Radiohead's Kid A Recycled' by Wooden Elephant.

Wooden Elephant create totally acoustic versions of classic electronic-based albums, presenting them in their entirety as long-form contemporary classical compositions.

Wooden Elephant’s version of Kid A owes more to Radiohead than just source material: as part of the London Contemporary Orchestra, Wooden Elephant’s composer/violist Ian Anderson worked with Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood on his contemporary string chamber music, culminating in a European tour, and playing on Radiohead’s latest album, A Moon Shaped Pool. These experiences went on to inspire the formation of Wooden Elephant: in our acoustic versions of electronic albums, we use many of the ideas and techniques that Jonny explored with the LCO, along with many more that we developed ourselves.

Treefingers is the 5th track from Radiohead’s seminal album Kid A, which celebrated its 20th anniversary on 2nd October 2020. Kid A famously combined Radiohead’s alternative rock music of OK Computer with the electronic stylings of Warp Records artists to devastating effect. We wanted to pay tribute to this era-defining album on its 20th anniversary by introducing it to yet another genre of music — that of contemporary classical music — with all the changes that demands.

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released November 6, 2020
WOODEN ELEPHANT
AOIFE NÍ BHRIAIN violin, ebows on ukuleles strung with guitar strings, kalimba, bowed toy handbells.
HULDA JÓNSDÓTTIR violin.
IAN ANDERSON viola, arrangement, wine glasses, toy archery bow, bowed toy handbells.
STEFAN HADJIEV cello, bowed toy handbells.
NIKOLAI MATTHEWS double bass, wine glasses, bowed toy handbell.

All music by Radiohead: Colin Charles Greenwood, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Edward John O’Brien, Philip James Selway, Thomas Edward Yorke.
Published by Warner Chappell Music Ltd. All rights reserved.

Produced, recorded and mixed by Johann Günther.
Recorded at RecPublica Studios, Poland, 14-18 January 2020.

Artwork by Dan Abbott and Daniel Schnatterer.

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Wooden Elephant London, UK

We take classic electronic-based albums in their entirety and reimagine them as
singular long-form compositions. We do this totally acoustically, using a combination of extended string
techniques and miscellaneous objects, including plectrums, tuning forks, bathroom sink plug chains, milk frothers, vibrators, and many other objects that have no right to be anywhere
near an old Italian violin.
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