I love you Kathleen. May your voice continue to sing for us from the heavens.

17 October 2013: A singing blue whale was recorded by an Ocean Sonics icListen low frequency hydrophone deployed at 2662m depth in Cascadia Basin. The audio has been sped up by a factor of 10 to make it audible, as blue whale sounds are subsonic(below the range of human hearing). Original filename: ICLISTENLF224_20131017T223012.326Z_20131017T223512.276Z

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Blue Whale Song

These are audio files sent by Kate Stafford of the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington. She is one of the many scientists at various agencies studying North Slope whale calls/songs, and is a co-author of a recent study describing 12 specific calls identified from bowheads swimming in the Beaufort Sea in the spring migration. 

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Raga Sughrai Kanada-Sarod

Human

Bowhead whale songs

This is a song meant to be a real adult lullaby song. It is a song to uplift and infuse your heart if it is saddened with loss, or even just after a long hard day. It is a reminder that in this fast-paced modern world filled with its beauty and its harshness, to try and give yourself a little time in nature for respite, or lay your head down upon a trusted friend, better yet is of course both.

This song came to me the day after a dear, dear friend passed (February 11). It was a huge loss for my son and I. We were both hurting and it brought up our deepest loss of 3-years before. In order to get out of my despair I think of others who are grieving or going through hard times, it helps me not isolate in the pain and reminds me that others have also come through the difficulties of the heart.

May this song and melody ease any sorrows and fill your heart with sweetness.

This song is dedicated to my #radawesomefriend and #chosenaunitetomyson Shannon L. Moorre

Thank you to by talented, gracious generative hearted friend Jennifer Grais https://www.jennifergrais.com/ and the amazing ease and talent of Cliff Goldmacher http://www.cliffgoldmacher.com/

Take A Little Time Off

"You Be Like The Moon" by Tiana Cicco

(Damn baby you make me grounded)
I don’t need you to be my man
I already know how to hold my own hand
I just want to understand you
And all the hidden pieces of you
Because I know I can

Somewhere…
In the caverns of my dreams
Somewhere…
A warm familiar breeze
Somewhere…
Wafting through
Somewhere…
Carrying the scent of you

You look at me like I’m a crystal
Through my outer shapes 
to the colors splayed within
How can I be so sweet to you?
Why is the sky blue?
Because she reflects the ocean too
Like me, she reflects you

(Damn baby you make me grounded)
I don’t need to see your face
I know how to keep myself entertained
I just want to play your favorite song
Because I know it rattles my bones the same way
And sing along

Somewhere…
In the caverns of my dreams
Somewhere…
A warm familiar breeze
Somewhere…
Wafting through
Somewhere…
Carrying the scent of you

If you be like the moon
Brilliant when you cycle ‘round
I will not hasten you
I’ll be as steady as the sun
Holding the center of the fire for you
Always burning brightly 
through the darkness for you
(Somewhere…)

But for now
You keep your girl
And I’ll keep my man

(Somewhere)

For now
You keep your heart
and I’ll keep my hands

(Somewhere)

Is this the beginning or is this the end?
I won’t twist our time wondering

You Be Like The Moon

LOVERS ROCK REGGAE MIX

Example phrases of whale songs recorded off the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0051214

Citation: Stimpert AK, Peavey LE, Friedlaender AS, Nowacek DP (2012) Humpback Whale Song and Foraging Behavior on an Antarctic Feeding Ground. PLoS ONE 7(12): e51214. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051214

Image courtesy Ari Friedlaender under permit (NMFS #808-1735)

Humpack Whale Songs

A short recording of a chorus of singing humpback whales on the Silver Bank, Dominican Republic. There were so many whale songs overlapping that it was impossible to make a good estimated count. Learn more about the humpback whales of the Silver Bank at www.ConsciousBreathAdventures.com

Take A Little Time Off

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