Kurr is the first full length record from the icelandic band amiina. Released in 2007.

“In the way that the Cowboy Junkies' classic album The Trinity Session arrived in the
midst of all the pre-grunge noise and clatter at the death of the 1980s, it almost feels
as if there's something quietly revolutionary about this gently overwhelming record.
Either way, a revelation.”
David Peschek, The Guardian

“Utterly original and deceptively relaxing, Kurr is the fullest-sounding minimalist
electro pop you’ve ever heard.”
Chris Whibbs, Exclaim!

“Kurr is a gently rippling stream of enigmatic moods and textures.”
Paul Sullivan, bbc.co.uk

“Whatever the permutations, Amiina's fragile magic can't fail to beguile.”
David Sheppard, BBC Collective

Hilli

musique originale : https://soundcloud.com/deepman1/ma-m-lodie-variante

lyrics (Takaka NZ inspiration):
Là-bas
les oiseaux chantent 
et c'est bon signe
Là-bas
tu peux poser ton sac
tout est paisible

C'est le paradis
des hippies kiwis
au rythme tranquille
une petite ville
peuplée d'indociles
peuplée d'âmes libres

C'est l'alternative
des styles de vie
en marge de la machine
Takaka
où l'Art et l'art de vivre
se cultivent

Là-bas 
les oiseaux chantent 
Là-bas
à Takaka

C'est là-bas 
que tu trouveras 
ta mélodie
C'est là-bas
que tu trouveras
ton utopie

à Takaka

Ma Mélodie À Takaka - musique deep man

Full context and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/04/27/janna-levin-reads-planetarium-by-adrienne-rich/

Recorded at "The Universe in Verse," April 24, 2017.

Photograph of Janna Levin by Molly Walsh / Academy of American Poets

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Astrophysicist Janna Levin reads "Planetarium" by Adrienne Rich

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/05/31/helen-fagin-walt-whitman/

101-year-old Holocaust survivor Helen Fagin reads Walt Whitman

Poem text and vital context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/14/wendell-berry-questionnaire-amanda-palmer/

Amanda Palmer reads "Questionnaire" by Wendell Berry

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/12/31/new-years-eve-rebecca-elson/

"Futura Vecchia, New Year's Eve" by Rebecca Elson (read by Maria Popova)

In 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause was leading a booming music career. A prodigiously talented musician and early master of the electronic synthesizer, Krause was busy working with artists like the Doors and the Beach Boys and performing iconic effects for blockbuster films. Then Warner Brothers commissioned him to create an album incorporating the sounds of wild habitats, so he headed into Muir Woods with his recording equipment. What he heard changed his life and triggered a fifty-year odyssey.

Then and there, Krause decided that he wanted spend the rest of his life recording and archiving the music of wild animals and wild places. He quit Hollywood and began traveling the world. The soundscapes he recorded were full of epiphanies about the origin of our own culture and music, about the profound connectedness of creatures, and about the unseen tolls of human activity. Previous wildlife recordings isolated the calls of individual creatures, but Krause recorded habitats as a whole. He soon proposed a new theory of ecosystem functioning: that each species produces unique acoustic signatures, partitioning and occupying sonic niches such that the singing of all of the creatures in a healthy ecosystem can be heard, organized like players in an orchestra. 

Today, Krause’s astonishing archive contains sounds made by more than 15,000 species. It is, as The New Yorker aptly put it, “an auditory Library of Alexandria for everything non-human." Fifty percent of the recorded habitats no longer exist due to habitat destruction, climate change, and human din. We spoke with Krause about the beauty of and perils facing wild music, the extraordinary science of soundscape ecology, and how sound impacts the welfare of animals. The music in this episode is from Wild Sanctuary (www.wildsanctuary.com).

Astrophysicist Janna Levin reads "Planetarium" by Adrienne Rich

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