Outside The Circle Of Fire

About

Released in 1998 on Touch Music, Chris Watson's second CD is a dramatic contrast to the spacious atmospheres of "Stepping into the Dark" (Touch TO:27, 1996). Featuring 22 close-up recordings of animal, birds and insect life, "Outside the Circle of Fire" enlarges our awareness of the sound universe, intimate with voices from the past. There is an intensity here that television pictures cannot conjure. Track listing and description: 1. WAITING Close up against a baobab tree, a cheetah, waiting... 2. BREATHING IN COLD AIR Breathing in cold air, Southern Right Whale 3. HORSE OF THE WOODS Capull coille,'horse of the Caledonian woods' 4. SONG Red rumped tinkerbird song 5. AT DUSK The Maasai say hippos spend the day on the river bed telling joke. At dusk they surface, laughing 6. WINTER FLAGS Winter Flags on a spring tide. 20 000 knot find a roost 7. MACHINE NOISE In the hollow ring of a ruined bothy, a starling mimics the noise of farm machinery 8. CANOPY Dry topical contact calls follow spider monkeys through the canopy 9. SONG Lemon rumped tinkerbird song 10. ACROSS THE IRIS BEDS An evening chorus of corncrakes across the iris beds 11.THREAT A lioness threatens 12. CRACKING VISCERA Vultures taste the dry, crackling viscera inside the rib cage of a zebra carcass 13. DEEP ROAR The deep roar of a red deer stag 14. UNKNOWN FOREST Unknown forest duet 15. OUT OF OUR SIGHT Out of our sight, motionless anticipation, along the dry sandy banks of the Zambesi a mozambique nightjar is sucking in all the remaining light 16. LEAF LITTER Leaf litter insect detail 17. SOULS OF DEAD CHILDREN The souls of dead children are said to pass into kittiwakes 18. FOREST FIRE Wood pigeon wings across a forest ride 19. SLEEPING IN WARM AIR Elephant, sleeping in warm air 20. RATTLE OF WOOD Deathwatch beetle, the rattle of wood over a black stream 21. MOONLIT FOG Tawny owls sing in moonlit fog 22. CONTACTS Hyena contacts .

via Last.fm

The Clerk says

Start your shelf to read the full take →