BIRDS :: Take One

 

 

Brand new track up on the Bandcamps again today. 

Based around a couple of field recordings of the dawn chorus, with a few carefully chosen acoustic instruments to keep that fresh early morning "live" feeling. The dawn chorus where I live has a richness and intensity like black strong coffee. In the summer, there are often as many as 20, 25 different species of birds audible from my back garden. And then there is the rookery just down the road which is well-established and home to maybe upwards of 200+ birds. It's a far cry from the city centre where I used to live.

On this track, I started with two early morning recordings of birdsong during the dawn chorus. To this I added synths and strings, acoustic guitar, kalimba and flute. All played by me. There is no AI on this recording. It's all me blowing and plucking and strumming and playing synths and literally waving a microphone at the trees

The image is the earliest I could find of the birds I used to make by recycling used disposable bbq grills that I collected from Southsea common.

That all feels like a lifetime ago, and I think that a little of that feeling comes across in the music.

And I think I can say this here, I am more pleased and happy with some of the music that I've made in the last ten years, than I am with any of the pictures I've made in the last forty.