Ari Picker, the guiding light of Lost in the Trees, started out wanting to make music like the orchestral-leaning pop of the Beatles and Beach Boys. That's what drew him to the Berklee College of Music.
"At that point, I was more into the film-school and pop background rather than classical," Picker says. "In school, they start you way back in the day of Renaissance and Baroque music. So I started getting into that, and it's where I'm at now."
Lost in the Trees earned major kudos with "All Alone in an Empty House," which came out on the local label Trekky Records. Anti-Records (which is label home to Tom Waits, Neko Case and Joe Henry) is releasing a re-recorded, remixed and remastered version with extra tracks. Picker is already well into writing for the next album.
