It's half past seven in the evening. The color of the sun is turning golden but it is still hot. It is 26 degrees outside. There are no boat owners or passengers in the harbor. There is one small building in the port where a ticket seller sits despite the fact that the last ferry of the day to Piirissaare departed half an hour ago. The water of the lake sings against the ferry's landing bridge. There are swallows nesting right under the bridge and motor boats can be heard from the lake

The sound of Lake Peipsi in Laaksaare boat harbor. Field recording. Estonia June 30, 2021

Even though disco music was considered harmless in Soviet Union – you really can’t sing about politics to dancers – there wasn’t released many Estonian disco tracks on vinyl records. Frotee found from archives two incredible previously unreleased disco tracks by Elektra. Sung in beautiful Estonian language by young highschool girls and backed by pretty tight instrumental group. While "Meid kaasa muusika viib" (originally "Jump To The Beat") is good for busy dancefloors, the cover version of "You Might Need Somebody", "Keegi", sounds even smoother in Estonian. Limited picture sleeve 7” with liner notes.

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Elektra - Keegi / Meid kaasa muusika viib 7" FRO004 sampler

A lovely common blackbird showing off his diverse variety of singing on this beautiful May evening with some neighbourhood sounds on the background. 

Quick recording on my iWatch, 19.05.2024.

Field Recording - Common blackbird - Tallinn, Estonia.

01.	Kosmos / Cosmos 00:00
02.	Elektronivöö / Electron Belt 02:23
03.	Kompuuter / Computer 05:41
04.	Emajõe kanjonis / At Emajõe Canyon 07:21
05.	ESTCube-1 12:31
06.	Pingemuundur / Voltage Converter 16:30
07.	Tõukuri eellüliti / Thruster Pre-switch 20:14
08.	Tõukuri lüliti / Thruster Switch * 22:28
09.	Krahh / Crash 27:16
10.	Oodates ja lootes / Waiting and Hoping 32:43
11.	Kabinet 111 / Room 111 * 37:29
12.	Teadlased / Scientists 37:45
13.	Eoolne / Eolian * 44:40
14.	Matrix 1000 47:53
15.	Päikesepuri avaneb / Solar Sail Opens 52:12
16.	Kord kaos, kord kord / Once Chaos, Once Order 54:51

* Ei esine filmis / Not included in the movie

Muusika, sõnad (08, 16), kõik instrumendid,
produktsioon, miks ja kujundus: Janek Murd
Vokaalid: Annie Rist (08, 16), Erkki Tero (16) ja Bonzo (16)
Mutanthääl: Janek Murd (05)
Naer ja laul: Ellen ja Aimee Murd (13)
Teksti lugemine: Kalju Orro (01)
Saksofon ja vile: Ülari Kirsipuu (09, 10)
Trummid: Madis Kirss ja Janek Murd (05, 07)
Master: Tanel Roovik
Lugude pealkirjad: Janek Murd ja Madis Ligema

See heliriba on pühendatud tudengitele ja teadlastele,
kes tegid Eestist kosmoseriigi.

Music, lyrics (08, 16), all instruments,
production, mixing and layout: Janek Murd
Vocals: Annie Rist (08, 16), Erkki Tero (16), Bonzo (16)
Mutant voice: Janek Murd (05)
Laughter and vocals: Ellen and Aimee Murd (13)
Narration: Kalju Orro (01)
Saxophone and whistle: Ülari Kirsipuu (09, 10)
Drums: Madis Kirss and Janek Murd (05, 07)
Master: Tanel Roovik
Track names: Janek Murd and Madis Ligema

This soundtrack is dedicated to the students and scientists who made Estonia a space country.

Made in Estonia. Eesti Pops 2015


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Kuidas ehitada kosmoselaeva? / How To Build a Spacecraft? (Full Album, 2015)

Tehnoloogiline Päike - Technological Sun (Vinyl / Digital LP 2016)

A02 Breaking It

Track 1 of 27.
Dawn Chorus, beginning at 4.29am on the 1st of May 2017.  Duration 9m15.  Recorded in Pille’s field near to the picnic area and toilets.  A cold morning (-2°C) but perfectly calm.  Very few species present, yet there is something very attractive about this sound, somewhat melancholy, a feeling of bare boards,  yet so beautiful.   At 2m24 a Great Tit begins to sing and keeps singing till 7m24.  There was frost on the tripod by the time I got back to the house.
Species present; Blackbird, Redwing, Robin, Great Tit, Common Crane and some distant Black Grouse.    
Recording 2951.
These recordings have been arranged to fit nicely onto three Cds, the f.l.a.c format files have been named beginning with the track number, then the ‘A’ ‘B’ or ‘C’ is to show which CD they belong to. . . 1,2, or 3.  If you are making a CD copy, the f.l.a.c. files will need to be converted from 48Khz / 24 Bit to 44Khz / 16 Bit wav’s as a lot of CD burning software will not recognise f.l.a.c. format.  
If you have the equipment to play the 48/24 - f.l.a.c. files you will be getting the full quality as this is the same sample and bit rate the originals were made at.  
	In some recordings you will hear what sounds like distant Geese or Swans calling and flapping vigorously.  But having consulted my sound guides I do not feel confident enough to name them, 
that is why they are not in the species list.
	All recordings were made in the Alam Pedja reserve Estonia, in areas in or south of Palupohja during May 2017.  In nearly every case the recordings follow the order in which they were made.  So this production follows the journey of my time in Alam Pedja. 
	I tend not to remember the exact weather conditions as I am usually too focused on recording. Provided it is not windy, then the details about the weather conditions do not get recorded in my blog.  
It is a great privilege to be in a position to take a full month off and devote it to my hobby/passion.  The material I recorded is so different to what I got the previous year even though most of the places I recorded in where the same, for instance I didn’t hear any powerful dawn choruses as I did in 2016.  I discovered a few new places in the reserve, this gave me new opportunities for recording.  Noticeable too was the places where the main sound activity had moved around, for instance the river bank near the nature school during the 2016 trip was a hive of activity, in 2017 there was hardly a sound to be heard there during the night, but I found later in the trip that a similar soundscape I had heard in 2016 could still be recorded but had simply moved down river a few hundred meters.  
	Most recordings were made with a matched pair of Sennheiser MKH 8020 radio frequency microphones, a Sound Devices ‘MixPre’ microphone pre-amplifier and a Marantz PMD661 solid state recorder, set to 48Khz / 24 Bit.  For a few recordings I used a Rode NT-4 Stereo microphone (Disc 2 - track 9) and sometimes a pair of Rode NT2A’s (Disc 2 - track 3).  
On this trip I was so glad to meet up with a fellow wildlife recordist  - Ivar Vinkel, Patrick Mc Guinley (he is the guy behind Framework radio), Veljo Runnel and Andrus Kannel.
My thanks to Veljo Runnel for naming the Spider.  
	I also had the interesting experience of having an online article written about me.   Jacob’s (Robert’s son) friend Triin wrote the piece.   
	Fellow recordist Andrus Kannel gave me a lift out to Alam Pedja.   Great to get back to the Nature School in Palupohja, Robert met me at the door, it was like coming home.  Happily I got to use the old room I was in the spring before and not only that, but a bed had been got, so no-more sleeping on the floor, there was even candles lighting in the room, (wonder did he see me coming and light them ?).  The old shelves I had erected were still there.  They had got in a washing machine and also fairly high-speed internet broadband.

Heart Of Alam Pedja - track 1 of 27

Sheila - "Fernando"(1969). Autorid - Claude Carrère/Daniel Vangarde/Jacques Plante
Eestikeelne tekst - Jüri Kõrgema

Villi Veskimäe & Viisiveljed - Päiksekiir mu toas

Naksitrallid (Multifilmist "Naksitrallid" 1984)

CHERRY PAINTTT

2002 CHING FREESTYLE

Linnuhääli Metsadest = Голоса птиц в лесу = Bird Songs In The Woods

Label: Мелодия ‎– С90 23557 008
Format: Vinyl, LP,  Stereo
Country: USSR / EST
Released: 1985
Genre: Non-Music; Field Recording

Tracklist = lugude nimekiri

A1	Mets
A2a	Pöialpoiss
A2b	Punarind
A2c	Käblik
A2d	Peoleo Oriolus Oriolus
A3	Laulurästas
A4a	Hoburästas
A4b	Vainurästas
A4c	Musträstas
A5a	Mänsak
A5b	Kägu
A5c	Ronk

B1	Ronk
B2	Musträhn
B3a	Sinitihane
B3b	Sootihane
B3c	Põhjatihane
B4a	Mustpea-põõsalind
B4b	Ööbik
B5a	Händkakk
B5b	Karvasjalg-kakk
B5c	Öösorr
B6	Sõtkas

LINNUHÄÄLI METSADEST I
“Linnuhääli metsadest” (I ja II) toob kuulajani valiku eesti metsalindude hääli. Need on Eesti Raadio “Looduse aabitsa” tarvis salvestatud helipildid ja lindude häälitsused, peamiselt laulud, mis käesolevale heliplaadile koondatuna on mõeldud eeskätt abivahendiks loodusehuvilisele linnuhäälte tundmaõppimisel looduses. 

Et aga looduse hääled etendavad väga olulist osa ka inimese ilumeele arenemisel ning esteetiliste vajaduste rahuldamisel, siis on käesolevate heliplaatide tegijad siia helipilte valides ning järjestades pidanud oluliseks tuua võimalust mööda kuulajani ka looduse muusika ilu.

Linnuhääled on salvestatud stereomagnetofoniga Ngra IVS stereomikrofoni Schoeps CMTS 501 U, mikrofonide SONY F115 ning suundmikrofonide C451CB + CK9 ja CK8 paaride abil. Heliplaadid on ette valmistatud Eesti Raadios

FRED JÜSSI

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Linnuhääli metsadest = Голоса птиц в лесу = Bird Songs In The Woods

Keeris "Öö ja päev" 7" (FRO002)
A: Öö ja päev
B: Kujutlus

Recorded in 1982, licensed from ERR, released courtesy of Jaan Laur. Previously unavailable in any format.
Vinyl-only release, limited edition of 300 copies worldwide.

Keeris was a pop group from Pärnu, Estonia – a resort town on the coast of the Baltic Sea. The group’s leader and keyboard player Jaan Laur wrote gorgeous pop melodies and “Öö ja päev“ is a great example of his skills. It might sound like smooth yacht rock in an indecipherable language with cheap East German synth sounds but Frotee Records thinks it is one of the most beautiful Estonian songs from the 1980s. Despite that, no one had released it on record until now. The other side of the 7’’single features the unreleased instrumental pop song “Kujutlus“ - both sides were recorded in 1982. The tracks were taken from original tapes and re-mastered by Lynn Petrin at Ebony Cuts. The history of Keeris in Estonian is included on the sleeve and the full translation of it will be available on the Frotee web site. Only 300 copies of the 7’’ single were released.

Field Recording - Common blackbird - Tallinn, Estonia.

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