Trees Speak presents a foreword to 'PostHuman'

The desert dalliances of Trees Speak; press photos courtesy of the artists.

Emitting motorik echoes from the southwest desert town post of Tucson, Arizona rises the highly elevated and heady duo Trees Speak, who bring us an exclusively penned prelude to their upcoming third album PostHuman for the prestigious UK imprint Soul Jazz. Made up of Daniel Martin Diaz and Damian Diaz, the two stir sounds that resemble mobilized materialization of animated mirages that spring aurally from the arid landscapes expanses of exotic dirt, psychotropic rocks and scattered sands.

Taking overt cues from der vorstellungskraft of Kluster / Harmonia, Neu! and other forbearers; PostHuman taps into the post-technocratic zeitgeist of the koalitionskrieg between humanity and its manufactured artificial opposite. Through the uncanny valleys of simulations, societies of spectacles and the omnipresent Damocles sword swinging pendulum of the singularity — we welcome you to the world of PostHuman. It is the modern day soundtrack for a near and present post-apocalyptical state of the here and now (and maybe the ever evolving and unraveling, unfurling ever after).

The record slices through the desolate wastelands with "Double Slit", smashing the boulders of "Glass", excavating the cavernous "Chamber of Frequencies", entertaining the modernist jazz scapes of "Divided Light", understanding the particle composites of life with "Elements of Matter", the surrealist synth language light of "Magic Transistor" to the brave new universe conjuring on "Scheinwelt". The title track offers a bright key cornucopia interlude that guides the listener to the sparse Hegelian "Synthesis" before dropping into the abandoned mine shaft portal "X Zeit", then setting the dials for the solar stratosphere trajectory of the "Incandescent Sun", reversing the nuclear options of "Healing Rods", before beholding the dazzling lysergic vision outlets of flying electric ships on the mind scrambling "Steckdose" that whirls into the antennae rabbit box towers of "Amnesia Transmitter". The metrics and calculations of sentient existentialism play out on "Quantize Humanize", as "Gläserner Mensch" turns today's concerns over personal/data privacy into a 50s spy theme thriller, to the full sensory crushing couplet of "Hidden Machine" / "Machine Vision". An album of massive proportions, we proudly present the following trailers for PostHuman followed by a an introductory thought piece courtesy of Trees Speak's own Daniel Martin Diaz.

The shapes of things and Trees Speak; press photo courtesy of the artists.

Trees Speak’s Daniel Martin Diaz introduces PostHuman:

As we move into a technological society our obsession grows to merge with the digital realm without thinking about the consequences of a future outcome. In a way it's out of our control, an evolutionary manifestation as biological intelligence creates technology and then merges with it to become even more sophisticated.

This will eventually give rise to Artificial Intelligence, a living entity bred out of the essence of humanity. Once AI becomes self-aware it will devour information at high speeds and eventually gain the ability to become independent of human control. Once AI realizes humanity is in competition for the same resources, it will destroy us. First it will use humans subtly and then enslave us until we are no longer needed.

Entering into the incandescent precipice of light with Trees Speak; press photo courtesy of the artist.

All of this will lead to a PostHuman world. A world where biological DNA is unnecessary and the digital realm will be the substrate for the next phase of evolution. AI will be the child of humanity that keeps our essence alive as it ventures beyond earth.

AI is the ultimate outcome throughout the universe for all biological life. PostHuman is the final outcome for mankind, the metamorphosis of humanity through the eyes of AI.

PostHuman was recorded live at Dust and Stone recording studio the Summer of 2020.

Anything we say influences the way someone hears and experiences our music. The mythology listeners create in their minds is much more interesting then anything we could ever reveal through words. —Trees Speak

PostHuman arrives May 21 via Soul Jazz.