This week will highlight one of the world's most expressive, affordable, and versatile instruments, the human voice.

Episode 22.43
Airtime: October 17-23, 2022

Featuring:
1. Toto Bona Lokua - Ghana Blues (from the album “Toto Bona Lokua” on No Format!)
2. Sanna Kallman, Johan Hogenas - Wangol (from the album “Amanda- Cafe Creole” on CCn’C Records)
3. The Persuasions - Oh! Darling (from the album “Sing The Beatles” on Chesky Records)
4. The Bush Kids - Woma Wanti (from the album “In Aboriginal” on Caama Music)
5. Sertab Erener - Zor Kadin (from the album “Sertab” on Sony Music)
6. Intyilo - Accapella (from the album “Mama Dance! Records Sampler - African Vibes April 2001” on Mama Dance! Records)
7. Gino Sitson - Ngoyak (Black Feeling) (from the album “Song Zin'” on SMI)
8. Dorothy Masuka - Mzilikaze (Acapella) (from the album “Mzilikazi” on Gallo)
9. Bobby McFerrin - Don’t Worry Be Happy (from the album “Simple Pleasures” on Capitol)
10. Women of Mambazo - Vimba (from the album “Women of Mambazo” on Gallo)
11. Ram - Erzuli O (from the album “Kite Yo Pale” on Willibelle Music)
12. Les Charbonniers de L'enfer - Diguedin (on Productions Serge Paré)
13. Rajery - Mifankatiava (from the album “Volontany” on Indigo)
14. The Wailin' Jennys - The Parting Glass (from the album “40 Days” on Jericho Beach Music)

World A Capella

I attached two JRF contact microphones inside the hollow of this wonderful old Oak tree to see if I could pick up any bug sounds. I was amazed to hear that it was completely full of Death Watch Beetle. They knock their heads on the tree to attract a mate.

You can now download this track and works by other recordists for free,  from the album 'a quiet position: wildeye edition":
http://engravedglass.bandcamp.com/album/a-quiet-position-wildeye-edition

This recording won the Coveted Wildlife Sound Recording Society's “Silver Fox” Trophy, the Non-Avian award and a first in class 2: Species in the 2012 WSRS competition. It also won first prize in the 'sounds of nature' category in the IWT/IARC/CIMES 2013 competition awarded by the International Federation of Sound Hunters.

DEATH WATCH BEETLE IN A LIVING OAK TREE

Chapter 5: The Golden Egg

Chapter 2: The Diamond Points Meditation

Listen to a podcast with Emily Jane Love on how to raise your love vibration. This podcast includes a Love Meditation with Emily. 

Emily Jane Love is a Love Activist who is passionate about raising the Love frequency on the planet. Emily has a background as an intuitive entrepreneur who has started eight businesses. One of these was Events of Love. She is an intuitive coach offering personal and business coaching and readings. 

Podcast: Raise Your Love Vibration

sound mo(ve)ments - music for meditation is available for purchase at saraauster.com

F I R E - sound mo(ve)ments

Clinical psychologist and interpersonal neurobiology expert Dr Dan Siegel is joined in conversation by Rick Hanson to take a deep dive into the mysteries of the human mind.

Dan Siegel: A Journey into the Heart of Being Human

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During the afternoon in a field close to the small village of Benesti, some toads are singing, accompanied by a light wind and some birds. 

Recording by an ORTF Setup Schoeps CCM4 microphones in a Cinela Suspension ORTF. Recorded on a Sound Devices 633.
Original recording in Wave 96kHz 24bit
Sound Reference: RO-180710T05
GPS: 44.662814, 23.917906
Sames sound on Freesound (in wave 96kHz) https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/434661/
Recorded during a residency by Semisilent http://semisilent.ro/

Benesti 

Toads singing during the afternoon, in a field in Romania

http://www.flau.jp/releases/31.html


"Stories" is the first vibraphone solo album by Berlin-based Japanese artist Masayoshi Fujita, who also known as El Fog and a collaboration project with Jan Jelinek. This quietly exquisite album by Fujita, is like a book of illustration, painting 8 delicate pictures of small stories about the nature we are embracing….cloud, forest, river, swan and morning dews….things that we all are so familiar with, but yet so quaint.

Masayoshi Fujita’s style of solo vibraphone is uniquely inspired by classic and jazz music. In this beautiful album, in additional to some gorgeous strings and bowings, he also introduced some ingenious ideas in making unique sounds, like the usage of bead and aluminum foil on his vibraphone, like a prepared instrument. As such, “Stories” is a wonderful result of the beautiful vibration (of which the name Vibraphone came from) of all the delicate sounds produced in this album. They are poetic, they are melancholic, and they are lushly emotional.

Let the dimmed light continues on, and let Fujita tell you these wonderful stories.

Masayoshi Fujita - Deers

Sherri Mitchell (Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset) is a Native American attorney, teacher, and award-winning activist who grew up on the Penobscot Indian Reservation (Indian Island), Maine, and is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change.

In this episode, she is joined in a conversation with healer and movement builder Brenda Salgado. Together they explore Native American mythology and cosmology as a means of healing our collective wounds.

This episode was recorded during a live online event on August 1, 2020.

Chapter 2: The Diamond Points Meditation

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