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Chris
Watson - Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch
# TO:37
CD
Tracks -
- 1.
WAITING
- Close
up against a baobab tree, a cheetah, waiting...
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- 2.
BREATHING IN COLD AIR
- Breathing
in cold air, Southern Right Whale
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- 3.
HORSE OF THE WOODS
- Capull
coille,'horse of the Caledonian woods'
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- 4.
SONG
- Red
rumped tinkerbird song
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- 5.
AT DUSK
- The
Maasai say hippos spend the day on the river bed telling jokes. At dusk
they surface, laughing
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- 6.
WINTER FLAGS
- Winter
Flags on a spring tide. 20 000 knot find a roost
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- 7.
MACHINE NOISE
- In
the hollow ring of a ruined bothy, a starling mimics the noise of farm
machinery
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- 8.
CANOPY
- Dry
topical contact calls follow spider monkeys through the canopy
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- 9.
SONG
- Lemon
rumped tinkerbird song
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- 10.
ACROSS THE IRIS BEDS
- An
evening chorus of corncrakes across the iris beds
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- 11.THREAT
- A
lioness threatens
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- 12.
CRACKING VISCERA
- Vultures
taste the dry, crackling viscera inside the rib cage of a zebra carcass
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- 13.
DEEP ROAR
- The
deep roar of a red deer stag
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- 14.
UNKNOWN FOREST
- Unknown
forest duet
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- 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
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- 16.
LEAF LITTER
- Leaf
litter insect detail
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- 17.
SOULS OF DEAD CHILDREN
- The
souls of dead children are said to pass into kittiwakes
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- 18.
FOREST FIRE
- Wood
pigeon wings across a forest ride
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- 19.
SLEEPING IN WARM AIR
- Elephants,
sleeping in warm air
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- 20.
RATTLE OF WOOD
- Deathwatch
beetles, the rattle of wood over a black stream
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- 21.
MOONLIT FOG
- Tawny
owls sing in moonlit fog
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- 22.
CONTACTS
- Hyena
contacts
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Chris
Watson / info
The purr
of a leopard close up against a baobab tree, waiting. Whales surfacing,
breathing in cold air. Coll starling imitate the noise of farm machinery
from the hollow ring of a ruined bothy. The rattle of wood over a black
stream...
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 animals, 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.
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- Akin,
IRDIAL:
"An
exhilarating journey into nature's most private sonic ceremonies. Dreamily
voyeuristic. Mysterious, perplexing, shocking and beautiful all at once.
The Jaguar will destroy you."
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