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With the constant barrage of noise from 'man made' things, fighting for our attention every waking second, many of us forget the soft call of natures voice.
'Jeanes' songs tell stories of sleeping fields, breathing trees & drunken bees.

Inspired by an article by Ian Macdonald about Nick Drake which said 'sensitive young people often have a horror of being understood for fear of losing their uniqueness, and in the process finding that they are not as unique as they like to think. The vocal was recorded in Catherine Hershey's Parisian home, with wonderful notes of morning bird song coming through the open windows.

Simple Jayne is the first track from the Sleeping Leaves EP.


written by Russell Jeanes, keys: Russell Jeanes
vocal: Catherine Hershey
https://soundcloud.com/catherine-hershey

I once met a girl,
she chose slowly
…what she told me 

we talked for a while,
…she said something
but then nothing,
..lips moved no words came

hides in her thoughts,
what she feels,
can’t be said,
they’re just her thoughts,
shes frightened others feel the same,
then she wont be unique again,
… just simple jayne.

with lapwing she plays
and humms slowly
….for him only … 

whatever she plays
the bird smothers, with feathers
no words can away

hides in wood groves,
with eyes never painted,
fringe grown past nose.
afraid if others hear her words,
her deepest thoughts wont be just hers
shes hiding words

I once met a girl she chose slowly what she told me.

Sleeping Leaves

Simple Jayne (With Morning Blackbirds)

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JEANES - Simple Jayne (with morning blackbirds) Performed by Catherine Hershey

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Jolene (Dolly Parton)

Based on sounds of pigs while eating.
The recordings were done in the mount Olympus foothills where there is a pig farm.
This is the second part of a trilogy dedicated on Mount Olympus


Output#3  P.I.G.S

Composed and arranged  by Daniel Oliva. Released on Daniel Oliva's album 'Solar'(2014).
Daniel Oliva ( guitar)
Sidiel Vieira (double bass)
Vitor Cabral (drums)

Produced by Ricardo Mosca
Recorded and mixed by Luis Paulo Serafim
Mastered by UE Nastasi

09 - El Sendero

hopping bird daysign

Display songs of male black grouse recorded on the edge of the moorland at Banchory, Scotland. The black grouse is an upland bird of north and west Britain and about the same size as a domestic chicken. The male or 'cock' is glossy black with a red wattle over its eye, a white wing bar, and a distinctive lyre-shaped tail. This contrasts with the smaller grey-brown female. The black grouse is a bird of moorland edge, hill-farms and young conifer plantations, often spending its entire life span very close to its birth site. Like all grouse it is mainly vegetarian, feeding on heather shoots, bilberries, and a variety of leaves and berries from trees in the winter. In spring, the males indulge in elaborate displays at a courting ground or 'lek' to establish mating rights. This 'lekking' behaviour involves each male strutting and posturing whilst producing a song that combines bubbling noises with harsh grating sounds. After displaying and mating, the male has nothing more to do with its family. There are currently 6,500 displaying males each spring and this is a huge reduction on the numbers recorded in the 19th century. The disappearance of black grouse from many areas is thought to be due to the intensification of agriculture and overgrazing by sheep and deer. Wire fences also cause numerous casualties.

Shelf mark
W1CDR0001417 BD24

Subjects
Birds

Recording date
1967/04

Recording locations
Banchory, Fife, Scotland: OS Grid Reference(326500,688500)

Recordist
Shove, Lawrence

Species
Black Grouse, Tetrao tetrix

Image reference www.flickr.com/photos/mfmb_bentley/27193295087 (Michael Bamford)

Black Grouse song (example 4), Fife, Scotland, April 1967

Femme voxed 1980 single on Banana Records, out of Providence, R.I.. Great track making me think they would have fit well with the 99 Records, Ze Records, early 80's NYC art punk, dance scene, alongside bands like ESG, Bush Tetras, The Dance, Liquid Liquid, Polyrock, etc. Original vinyl rip.

The Tits - Love Doll (1980)

an excerpt from a live performance at reed college, eliot hall chapel. 04.18.15
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video can be see at: https://vimeo.com/125768327
more info: http://www.dustbreeding.com/531-excerpt
photo by brian young.

Excerpt 150418m Reed College Chapel

The Early Bird

Cover of the theme from "The Rockford Files" by Mike Post
Guitar - Jeremy Drake
Trumpet - Kris Tiner

The Rockford Files (cover)

excerpt from Track 1 - Disc 1 of the homonymous 2CD set by My Cat Is An Alien

Photoelectric Season #1 (excerpt) - by MY CAT IS AN ALIEN

First track from Still Smiling the album by Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld
available here on CD (with 14 pages booklet and great cover), Double LP (gatefold cover and download code).
http://tehoteardo.com/en/opera/album/teho-teardo-blixa-bargeld/

hopping bird daysign

Jeff McGrory

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