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Pulse of the Planet Audio Journeys : Extraordinary Sounds from the Natural World
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This collection of truly amazing sounds will take you on a journey which begins with the sounds of women drumming their hands on a river in Zaire and ends with the hissing, 15 billion year "echo" of the Big Bang that created the universe.
Genre: Kids/Family: Kid Friendly
Release Date: 1994
Extraordinary Sounds from the Natural World Record Label: Pulse of the Planet
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Water Drumming 1:56 $0.99
Bayaka Song 2:28 $0.99
Kaluli Song 2:20 $0.99
Initiation Rite 1:30 $0.99
Tibetan Chant 4:16 $0.99
Siberian Shamans 2:14 $0.99
Nepalese Caravan 2:10 $0.99
Ants 0:49 $0.99
Leafhoppers 1:25 $0.99
Termites 0:57 $0.99
Bats 1:12 $0.99
Bird Song, slowed down 3:02 $0.99
Elephants 1:32 $0.99
Bearded Seals 2:13 $0.99
Coyotes 0:44 $0.99
Colobus Monkeys 2:22 $0.99
Gibbons 2:41 $0.99
Oropendola Bird 2:18 $0.99
Japanese Deer 0:44 $0.99
Shishi Odoshi 1:24 $0.99
Suikinkutsu 1:12 $0.99
Aeolian Harp 2:26 $0.99
Tornado 1:40 $0.99
Earthquake 0:46 $0.99
Lava Flow 1:17 $0.99
Booming Sands 1:40 $0.99
Arctic Ice 1:11 $0.99
Atmospheric Whistlers 1:24 $0.99
Jupiter Chorus 1:58 $0.99
Miranda’s Mystery 0:31 $0.99
Music of the Spheres 2:58 $0.99
Pulsar 1:15 $0.99
Cosmic Background Radiation 2:07 $0.99
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Album Notes

Jim Metzner is a sound recordist and radio producer, best known for his series "Pulse of the Planet," which can be heard on over 320 stations worldwide and online at pulseplanet.com. On National Public Radio, he is Weekend Edition Saturday's "Ambassador to the Natural World".

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REVIEWS

Pulse of the Planets
author: Ashera
This is such a wonderful recording of so many beauty-full things found in nature that fill me with awe and amazement! Thanks so much for travelling the world and sharing your fab findings! You are an inspiration to us all! Hopefully it will encourage all those who listen to honour the planet more and share this beauty!
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great audio of obscure natural sounds
author: Charles Conner
This is a great compilation of only some of the stuff featured on the program that I get on late night AM radio. I am a big fan of nature recording, as well as cool cultural stuff, and I only wish this was one of many volumes. This is valuable, too, in that so many natural sounds in the world are being drowned out by human noise, and this has profound effects on wildlife and our own appreciation of the details of the audio world.
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