Keri Latimer - Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Theremin
Devin Latimer - Bass Guitar
Joanna Miller - Drums, supporting vocals, Whistling
Chris Dunn - Electric Guitar
Geoff Hilhorst - Rhodes and Hammond A-100
William J. Western - Pedal Steel

Produced by John Paul Peters and Keri Latimer
Mixed and Mastered by John Paul Peters at Private Ear Recording in Winnipeg Manitoba in 2023
Produced with the financial participation of Manitoba Film & Music

Lyrics:
I'm tethered to you
Like a starling to a starling
I think I’m hypno-magnetized

The dark is looming
Won’t you do se do me darling?
Dance me through the twilight sky

Hallelujah
Sing the steeples that we pass
Then we dive down deep and we hear the gutters gasp

Hallelujah
Sing the scrapers in the sky
And we never catch a penny, but we try

With you
I fly wild

My synchro-mystery
I have no existory
Before reflected in your eye

Whether near or farling
My heart’s a tethered starling
Dancing in the twilight sky

Hallelujah
Sing the maples that we pass
Then we dive down deep and we nearly meet the grass

Hallelujah
Cry the wiley satellites,
And we never catch a comet, but we try

With you
I fly wild

Velvet Paintings

Starling to a Starling

Starling To A Starling

Soundscape for All Saints' Church, Martock, Somerset. Poem written and performed by Lucy Jago. Chorister Ivo Clark. Mixed by Jake Jackson Air Studios. Recordings all taken in and around the church including sounds of the congregation, hymn, organ and prayer.  Field recordings taken on Somerset Levels include starling murmuration, booming bittern, water fowl at dawn, contact mics in the sweet track bog and hydrophones in Noah's Lake.

Soundscape Everything That Has Breath

Lift off! This was spectacular beyond what I could have imagined. The starling murmuration at the Avalon Marshes in Somerset. Hundreds of thousands of birds departing from their roost on the reed beds. The numbers are hard to comprehend. First the silence - a timid chorus at this time of year - then the starlings start to chatter. Suddenly there is a build up of rumbling bass, like wind hitting the microphone or something about to erupt. Then the waves across the field, like ocean waves in the distance, both visually and sonically. And the lift off. The rumble becomes a satisfying silky carpet enveloping you overhead.

This repeats 3-4 times as different waves of departing starlings take flight. MAGICAL.

I edited 30 seconds at the end from when they've all left, to give perspective, so you can appreciate the decibels such a gathering produces.

Location: Shadwick Heath, Somerset, UK
Date and time: 25 February 2024, 7am
Habitat: Reed beds, Flooded plains

Gear (Associate Links):
Sound Devices 744T
Sennheiser MKH8060 and MKH30 in Mid-Side rig.
Nikon Z6-II https://amzn.to/4aWjeyZ
Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 DG OS HSM https://amzn.to/4bmU24t
Sigma 70-200 F2.8 https://amzn.to/3Wpdrxu

Starling Murmuration Dawn Lift-Off

Lofi Beat | Type Beat | Beatmaking Chill - Murmur

Dusty Memories

Fading Lights

Waders in their thousands run out of beach as the incoming tides pushes to take flight.

Species: Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus), Red knot (Calidris canutus), Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria), Pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)...
Location: RSPB Snettisham, Norfolk, UK.
Date and time: 19 October 2024 at 18:27
Habitat: Mudflat, salt marshes, coastal

Gear
Zoom F3
Sennheiser MKH 8060 and MKH 30 in Mid-Side

Dusk Spectacular

Waders in their thousands moving about on the lagoons behind Snettisham Beach

Species: Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus), Red knot (Calidris canutus), Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria), Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca), Pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)...
Location: RSPB Snettisham, Norfolk, UK.
Date and time: 19 October 2024 at 20:00
Habitat: Brackish lagoon

Gear
Zoom F3
Sennheiser MKH 8060 and MKH 30 in Mid-Side

Dusk Spectacular Lagoons

Music, sound design and soundscapes for media, art and film, based in London. Extensive use of field recordings and environment.

Hi! I'm Ángel, Sound Artist and Field Recordist. My inspiration is the natural world. I run SoundArk. offering Audio Production and Post-Production services. I'm based in the United Kingdom, and have been lucky to travel the world through my trade.

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angel@soundarkstudios.com
 
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