Forests: A Book of Hours

Forests: A Book of Hours Artist: Douglas Quin
Label: The Orchard
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 669910314524
EAN: 0669910314524
ASIN: B00003A9RJ


Release Date: 2000-04-08

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Tracks:

  1. Dawn
  2. Day
  3. Dusk

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Forest for the Trees.......2006-04-02

Tropical rainforests are hotbeds of activity, not only in the variety of verdant greenery but also the myriad of sounds emitted by the millions if not billions of unseen residents. Musicians have been inspired by this embarrassment of riches, among them Ariel Kalma's "Osmose" (1977), Dennis Hysom's "Cloud Forest" (1991), Martin Cradick/Baka Beyond's "Spirit of the Forest" (1993) and Rodney Franklin's "Rainforest Dreams" (1998).

Douglas Quin's production, assembled for German radio in 1997, has subtle choral, woodwind, percussive and electronic overtones over the lush soundscape of cicadas, howler monkeys and exotic birds. Many recordings have been mixed together -- including some of his famous Antarctica recordings (!) -- so authenticity of place is implied rather than enforced. Quin calls it "a mythical conjuring of place" and "a work of fiction" based on "being struck by the similarities that exist in the sounds of species half a world away" from each other in Brazil, Madagascar and Kenya. One might add Germany, and the strangest species of all.

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