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

Inspired by the Armenian instrument, the duduk. Vocal expression of the very emotional and mysterious sounds of this music. 

Duduk For Two Voices

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This second theme was a great challenge! When you are facing the giant who is François de Roubaix, you suddenly feel small and useless. I tried to spice this piece of music with some ingredients that could have been in one De Roubaix recipe and made it my own.

THEME 02 : FRANÇOIS DE ROUBAIX

The fifth volume of 'Ambient Archives' comes with music by Shuta Yasukochi, Surroundyou, Slow Clinic and Logic Moon. A wide range of ambient lines, guitars, beautiful piano chords, hazy textures and field recordings.

Written and Produced by Shuta Yasukochi, Surroundyou, Slow Clinic and Logic Moon. 
Mastering by Zzzzra. 
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Surroundyou - Awakening

'Soundscapes Vol.1' is our first CD compilation. Eight ambient tracks by Robert Farrugia, Logic Moon, Dead Melodies, Powlos, CloudBurn, The Aurora Principle, Caught In The Wake Forever and Warmth.

Mastering by Rob Small.
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Dead Melodies - Monochrome Rebellion

Coming in mid September is an absolutely lovely, pastorally infused, first album from Enofa (Ross Baker), entitled, “Arboretum”. Ross had released a collaborative album with us a few years back under the name, Middlemarch. His partner on that “Wolf Hall” release, Dimitris Avramidis, also contributes to this new effort as well.

For Ross, nature, and the inspiration derived from walking among the trees in the park and nature preserve near his home, plays a large part in the overall tone of this one long beautiful track. Like the Arboreta, which are regularly crafted to contain a range of contrasting shapes and colours, which gives them a very unique look and atmosphere,  this wondrous soundscape of sorts, incorporating field recordings, moody guitars and synth, and electronic treatments perfectly reflects the calming and mysterious feel of the long and languid  glorious English days of the moment. Wind chimes…the crackle of leaves underfoot….the light, swirling wind in the treetops…the sun breaking through the clouds…put this album on and you will find yourself strolling there as well!

TRS078 will come in two very limited, physical versions. The first, deluxe handmade version comes in an edition of just 50 copies. Each of these comes in the form of a collaged, stamped and hand worked vintage art deco, tri-fold photo folder, w/original photograph. Within each are collaged, vintage arboreal prints, dried leaves, and other arboreal ephemera. Each folder is extensively hand artified, and comes strung with a stamped tag made from an antique British cigarette card. Each comes with an attached, stamped black envelope containing a factory pressed CD, held on with an obi strip.

There is also a hand made standard version of Arboretum in an edition of 50 copies. These come in hand worked and altered, black digipaks, also with factory pressed discs.

This release is also available physically at our website, or digitally and physically at our Bandcamp page here…and here…

http://timereleasedsound.com/

https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/

Enofa..."Arboretum"  Track II

“Sallaw” is a Kurdish word that expresses the passing of time, and on this new album the three sound artists have found a way of expressing that notion in music. Four tracks of slowly unfolding ambience make up this collection, each piece named after different months, again in Kurdish. The four sections represent the different seasons and their movement through time.

Sallaw

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PORYA HATAMI | AARON MARTIN | ROBERTO ATTANASIO - Rêbendan

Taken from the upcoming album 'Oceanography' on Fluid Audio...

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Oceanography

Craig Aalders - Oceanography

My latest collection of work titled 'Slow Walking' is out today via Toronto's Polar Seas Recordings. Available on vinyl and digital formats. This is the first time any of my work has been available on vinyl and I have to thank Brad Deschamps for making that a reality. See buy link. UK and EU people can also get copies here - https://www.normanrecords.com/records/177983-moss-covered-technology-slow-walking

Slow Walking

'Forgotten Views' - Slow Walking - [Polar Seas Recordings, 2019]

In 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause was leading a booming music career. A prodigiously talented musician and early master of the electronic synthesizer, Krause was busy working with artists like the Doors and the Beach Boys and performing iconic effects for blockbuster films. Then Warner Brothers commissioned him to create an album incorporating the sounds of wild habitats, so he headed into Muir Woods with his recording equipment. What he heard changed his life and triggered a fifty-year odyssey.

Then and there, Krause decided that he wanted spend the rest of his life recording and archiving the music of wild animals and wild places. He quit Hollywood and began traveling the world. The soundscapes he recorded were full of epiphanies about the origin of our own culture and music, about the profound connectedness of creatures, and about the unseen tolls of human activity. Previous wildlife recordings isolated the calls of individual creatures, but Krause recorded habitats as a whole. He soon proposed a new theory of ecosystem functioning: that each species produces unique acoustic signatures, partitioning and occupying sonic niches such that the singing of all of the creatures in a healthy ecosystem can be heard, organized like players in an orchestra. 

Today, Krause’s astonishing archive contains sounds made by more than 15,000 species. It is, as The New Yorker aptly put it, “an auditory Library of Alexandria for everything non-human." Fifty percent of the recorded habitats no longer exist due to habitat destruction, climate change, and human din. We spoke with Krause about the beauty of and perils facing wild music, the extraordinary science of soundscape ecology, and how sound impacts the welfare of animals. The music in this episode is from Wild Sanctuary (www.wildsanctuary.com).

Ep. 39 - Bernie Krause on saving the music of the wild

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