Japanese experimental artist Susumu Yokota is offering the song “Tree Surgeon” from his latest album Mother as a free download.

I featured another song from that album, the spacey “A  Flower White”, in an earlier post and described it somewhat as an “an ode to an alien”. “Tree Surgeon” pretty much fits the same description, as it sounds like a quirky space ballad from an old school science fiction movie. The female vocals may seem a bit offbeat during the first listen, but I think it adds to the song’s character in the long run.

Yokota enlisted a range of vocalists for Mother, including including Caroline Ross, Rothko, Caspe Clausen (Efterklang), The Chap, Nancy Elizabeth and Anna Bronsted (Our Broken Garden).

~ “Tree Surgeon” ~