Name: 'Five Natural Pieces' by Veljo Runnel - Album Sample by Listening Earth
Duration: 3 min

3 minute audio sample from the 65 minute nature soundscape; "Les Suetes" by Mark Brennan, available for download from www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=125

Les Suetes is the song of the wind over the Northern forests.

This album is an uninterrupted soundscape, featuring the high winds that blow across the boreal plateau of the Cape Breton Highlands of Nova Scotia, Canada. Recorded in a sheltered old growth Acadian Forest, it is an intimate exploration of this unique weather phenomenon.

'Les Suetes' by Mark Brennan - Album sample

This is an audio sample from the nature sound album: 'Dawn Chorus: Scandinavia' (70mins)

It is late spring in Scandinavia, and the chill, morning air pulsates with a rich dawn chorus. In the half light around 3am, the early chorus is dominated by thrushes; Blackbirds and Redwings calling from the dense forest undergrowth. Drifting across the still waters of a nearby lake are heard the voices of Black-throated Divers and Whooper Swans. Later, other forest birds join the morning chorus, including the lyrically-voiced Backcap.

The delicate birdsong of this album evokes the renewal of the European spring.

'Dawn Chorus: Scandinavia' - album sample

This is an audio sample from the nature sound album: 'Dawn Chorus: Australia's Inland' (75mins).  
Download the full album here: http://www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=100

"Amongst the many wonders of the Australian outback is the beauty of its birdsong.

In arid mulga woodland country, the first birdsong is sparse, with a Willy Wagtail, Hooded Robins and Spotted Nightjar calling in the darkness. A White-fronted Honeyeater then begins singing; a charismatic cadence of metallic sounds, soon joined by another and the two sing a spectacularly choreographed duet.

Eventually a rich chorus of birdsong evolves, among it the liquid tones of Crested Bellbirds, the low booming of Bronzewing Pigeons, and ethereal songs of Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush.

This un-edited recording allows you to experience the outback dawn in all its magic."

'Dawn Chorus: Australia's Inland' - album sample

Australia is a land of beautiful and unique birdsong.

From the familiar voices of bush and garden, to the secret song of the Redthroat; from a magical chorus of Tawny-crowned Honeyeaters, to a forest ringing with Bellbirds - This album is a journey around the continent, and a personal selection of our favourite songbirds.

'Favourite Australian birdsong'- album sample

3 minute audio sample from the 75 minute nature sound album; "Taiga - Europe's Boreal Wilderness", available for download from http://www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=104

Taiga - the great forests of the far north, the most extensive habitat on earth.

Here the landscape is vast; a mosaic of conifer forest and sodden peatbogs, threaded with streams and lakes.

As the blue light of midsummer dawn silhouettes the landscape, Tree Pipits and Willow Warblers sing melodiously from song perches atop tall conifers. Bramblings and small parties of Siskins flit overhead, filling the air with their delicate calls.

Across open ground drift the eerie calls of whimbrels and the sharp piping of a greenshank. Snipe display in flight, and ducks splash-land on open water.

As wind stirs the treetops, a lone redstart sings, its intricate trills fragile against the elements.

Taiga - Europe's Boreal Wilderness - Album Sample

For full blog post, go to: http://www.listeningearth.com.au/blog/what-is-in-a-song-birdsong-slowed-down

Blue Wren song at normal speed, and slowed 8x

3 minute audio sample from the 74 minute nature sound album; "Dawn Chorus", by Geoff Sample, available for download from http://www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=107

It is predawn in a woodland in northern England. Trees drip with a heavy dew from overnight mists, and we hear the last of the nightbirds; tawny owl and woodcock.

The first songbirds begin, and a cuckoo starts up somewhere in the distance. Gradually more birds take up singing until the soundscape is a mass of intertwined themes. The main chorus is heard from outside the wood - a surrounding sea of birdsong.

Once the full chorus begins to wane, we re-enter the wood to hear more spacious scenes with a variety of singers.

'Dawn Chorus' by Geoff Sample - Album Sample

3 minute audio sample from the 67 minute nature sound album; "Song of the Blackbird", available for download from http://www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=108

The melodious voices of Blackbirds are often the first to begin the European spring dawn chorus.

This recording takes us into an old growth woodland, where Blackbird territories intersect, to hear several birds singing in lusty voice.

We first hear the opening notes of the dawn chorus, with tawny owls also calling nearby. We are then treated to a rich solo from a single Blackbird, which eventually opens into a rich chorus of morning birdsong; blue tits, chaffinches, nuthatch, raven and cuckoo.

Finally, something special. Blackbirds are an introduced species into Australia and New Zealand, and our concluding track features a dusk solo from one of these antipodean Blackbirds.

Song of the Blackbird - Album Sample

3 minute audio sample from the 76 minute nature sound album; "Five Natural Pieces", by Veljo Runnel, available for download from www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=111

This album is a meditation on time and place in nature.

These soundscapes have all been recorded in Estonia, where most of the birds are migratory - arriving from their wintering areas in April or May, and starting to leave again at end of August.

The first piece puts us in early spring, with just a few sounds and the moody creaking of still bare trees. Then we move to a forest clearing, to witness the beginning of day in the company of a lone Black Grouse. The next tracks carry us to a babbling brook and riverside village with already migrating swallows. The final piece is set in a dark August evening with the chirping of bushcrickets - evoking the feeling of fading summer.

'Five Natural Pieces' by Veljo Runnel - Album Sample

3 minute audio sample from the 60 minute nature sound album; "Peskowesk", by Mark Brennan, available for download from www.listeningearth.com/LE/product.php?id=112

Nova Scotia's Kejimkujik National Park; its lakes, rivers and forests have been a traditional stopping place for thousands of years for the First Nations Mi'kmaq people of Eastern North America.

To paddle its pristine waterways is to step back in time, in an intimate adventure that cannot help but re-connect you to the Earth.

This is the soundscape journey of an approaching spring in the northern deciduous forests of Canada. The sounds of ”Peskowesk”, are sure to awaken you to the possibilities of what it means to connect with wild nature.

'Peskowesk' by Mark Brennan - album sample

'Time for the Tarkine' is a professionally recorded nature soundscape, available for  **FREE ** download at:
www.listeningearth.com/tarkine

This is a 3 minute audio sample from the 75 minute album. 

Australia's Tarkine region of northwest Tasmania contains the largest expanse of temperate rainforest in the southern hemisphere.

Here, hidden deep in river valleys and wild uplands, huge myrtle trees are festooned with epiphytes and mosses, and in their cool shade thrive an understory of tree ferns. These forests are ancient - they once covered the whole of Australia, and date as far back as the time of the dinosaurs and the primordial supercontinent of Gondwana.

Sadly, this region is under imminent threat of mining. There are currently 11 applications for large, open-cut developments pending, which the Australian government seems intent upon passing regardless of any environmental or social consequences.

Hence we've made this album freely available, so you can hear the wild voices of the Tarkine speak for themselves, and get a sense of what is at stake.

Download the complete album, grab your headphones, take some time & enjoy - and please - share this with friends.

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'Time for the Tarkine' - free 75 minute nature album to download

Listening Earth offers an evocative range of natural listening experiences -  soundscapes recorded in wild locations around the world. 

Established 25 years ago by nature field recordist Andrew Skeoch and photographer Sarah Koschak, it is their passion to share the beautiful, unique and often fragile soundscapes of our living planet. 

"We hope listening will remind you of life in balance, and transport you to wild and often remote places."

'Five Natural Pieces' by Veljo Runnel - Album Sample

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