Song of the day: Taken by Trees

Taken By Trees has a new album out which mixes Pakistani Qwaali music with Swedish pop sensibilities, an unlikely but mostly successful combination. East of Eden is the follow-up to 2007’s Open Field from Taken By Trees, a project of Victoria Bergsman, ex-frontwoman of The Concretes, and includes the fantastic, mood-setting To Lose Someone. Recorded in Pakistan with Sufi musicians, itself the subject of a National Geographic documentary, East of Eden is an intriguing album. Watch the Waves, on the band’s website is also worth a listen although a little more poppy (pop-y?) than To Lose Someone.There’s not much of a video to watch here, but the song is worth it.