Shake the Hourglass About is Realtree’s second release. Comprised of full band and mixed ensemble works, it highlights the varied interdependent relationships within the group. It is indebted to the work of Bill Dixon, Duke Ellington, Dai Satō, Thérèse of Lisieux, Gene Wolfe and others.

Realtree is a band made up of cello, clarinet, cornet, electric guitar and laptop. They focus on performing songs that use monophonic and timer-controlled compositions as temporal structures for improvisations. Material for each song originates from previous performances, miscellaneous audio or simply other songs, which were transcribed and used as building blocks for the compositions. Realtree’s previous release, “Splendor Falls on Everything Around” (Public Eyesore Records), has been described as “quite orderly” (The Wire) and “totally captivating” (Vital Weekly).

Realtree is:
Carley Olson Kokal - Bb Clarinet
Michelle Kinney - Cello
Patrick Marschke - Laptop
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin - Cornet
Adam Zahller - Guitar

All compositions by Noah Ophoven-Baldwin
Recorded and mixed by Patrick Marschke
Mechanical metronome (B5) built by Paul Metzger
Mastered by Hiroyuki Ura
Art design by Liu Lu