Crickets, clarinets and cowbells

This is a collage of sounds I collected whilst on holiday in The Lower Jura mountains in France in August. The Lower Jura has lots of wooded hills, long narrow pastures and a multitude of wildflowers.

I collected cricket sounds  at night on an ancient drover's road, a bit like those found in The Blackdown Hills. 

The cowbells were hanging around the necks of an inquisitive herd of Charolais cows. Charlolais have an off-white colour and they would no doubt be sad to learn that they are primarily beef cattle. Recorded during the afternoon; the cows are asleep at night so there is no sound from the cowbells

The clarinet solo was a single take one morning in the nearby woods

The crickets, clarinet and cowbells  were recorded within a few hundred yards of each other. Notwithstanding the fact that some of the the sounds were recorded during the day and some at night,  I feel that they convey the atmosphere of the locale. 

If I close my eyes when I listen to this track I can almost re-live strolling up the drover's road with Robert, the old farmer who still cuts his hay with a scythe.

Charli

Cowbells,clarinet and crickets

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Recordered at Hummingbird Care Home, Churchinford, Somerset June 2017

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Charlie Hearnshaw clarinet, basset clarinet, alto sax.


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