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    Bernie Krause
     
    Spring in Corkscrew Swamp
    There's a gentle wilderness near Naples, Florida, an important breeding area for the endangered and other wetland birds make it resonate with birdsong...but it's also home to alligators and venomous snakes. Beautiful soundscapes, for daring recordists!
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    Bernie Krause
     
    Costa Rica: Hidden Treasures
    From one of the most biologically intense places left on earth, Corcovado, in the Osa Pennisula of Costa Rica, is home to a profusion of endangered plant and animal species. This special audio portrait of tropical lowland rainforest resonates with life.
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    Bernie Krause & Lang Elliott
     
    Carolina Woods
    Recorded in and around the Sumter National Forest of central South Carolina.
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    Bernie Krause & Ruth Happel
     
    Midsummer Nights
    Wild Sanctuary elevates the standard in Natural Soundscape Recordings. Here, Bernie Krause and colleague Ruth Happel explore the warmth and beauty of summer's delicate evening chorus, from both Eastern US and Western US perspectives.
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    Ruth Happel
     
    Loons of Echo Pond
    As part of the mysterious spring chorus, loons and peepers of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York enchant us, as we listen to the haunting 'biophony' of this rare habitat. Once these enigmatic sounds are heard, they are never forgotten.
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    Wild Sanctuary
     
    Dawn at Trout Lake
    Every spring morning, just before daybreak, the few woodland places left like Trout Lake spring to renewed life with a biophony of melodious rhythms and textures beyond the best human music we know of. You just have to wake up in time for the performance!
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    Bernie Krause
     
    African Safari: Zimbabwe
    This recording is proof that some vocal animals use their habitats as a performance hall in which to render their operas in harmony with other creatures. At the beginning, hear the baboons echo their voices off the rocks.
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    Wild Sanctuary
     
    Ocean Wonders
    This soundscape is an aural voyage beginning at a beach along the Big Sur (California) coast, and descending below the surface into the depths of the sea, before emerging to the shore, once again. The living sea pulsates with biological sound and surf.
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    Bernie Krause & Phil Aaberg
     
    A Wild Christmas
    A festive holiday recording composed entirely of animal sounds. You may not believe your ears but the hip percussion and contemporary arrangements were completely created, without instruments, with critter sounds from the natural world - it's truly wild!
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    Richard D. Lang
     
    Impressions of Grandfather's Seascape Oils Orchestral Suite Volume One
    Described as a good new classical composer who writes wonderful music filled with many moods.
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    Joachim-Ernst Berendt
    Primordial Tones, Vol. 2
    The frequencies of Mars, Venus and Jupiter have been reproduced acoustically on the Sandawa, a multi string mono-chord instrument.
    The world acclaimed expert on 'listening' introduces COUSTO's Tones Of The Planets. These sound-vibrations of the planets with their rich overtones will bring your consciousness in harmony with the primordial energy of these heavenly bodies. Each of the three '2-CD Sets' is 2 hours in length of meditating time. A South American Native elder predicted: "Wait until we can hear the Primordial Tones. That's when human consciousness will make a quantum leap." JOACHIM-ERNST BERENDT (1922 - 2000) was born in 1922 in Berlin, the son of a pastor who was among the leading opponents of Hitler in the German Protestant Church and was killed in the concentration camp of Dachau. In 1945, at the age of 23, Berendt was one of the founders of the Southwest German Broadcasting Company (Südwestfunk). He is the author of 33 books which have been translated into 21 languages. With a total circulation of nearly two million, his Jazz Book (Lawrence Hill Publ., New York) is considered to be the best-selling book on music ever; at colleges and universities in the U.S. it is the most widely used textbook on jazz. In 1964 Berendt was the founder of the present-day Jazzfest Berlin. In 1967 he directed the very first World Music Festival, also in Berlin, in 1972 the Olympia Jazz Festival in Munich, in 1970 the World Jazz Festival at the world's fair in Osaka and in 1984 the event Jazz and World Music in Lincoln Center, New York. The ZEIT (German weekly newspaper) has called him the "father of the modern world music movement." On his 75th birthday the West German Broadcasting Company WDR Köln, the German-French cultural television station ARTE and many other broadcasters paid tribute to him with major television concerts. Since the second half of the 1970s Berendt has distinguished himself above all through his works on the acoustic character of the world and the significance of hearing - particularly in his books Nada Brahma: The World is Sound (Destiny Books, Rochester, oop/ East-West Publications, UK), The Third Ear (Henry Holt, New York, oop) and I Hear, Therefore I Am (Goldmann, oop) and in the workshops, seminars and lectures he has held world-wide. Berendt considers the primarily visual orientation of the human being in our modern television-dominated culture to be one-sided. "It blurs and distorts our perception of the world." He points out that in all of the great cultures in the history of mankind, hearing - and not seeing - was considered to be the most important human sense. Arnold Graf Keyserling: "Nobody in our century has penetrated so deeply into the miracle of hearing than Joachim-Ernst Berendt." And André Ratti (Basler Zeitung): "Berendt is addressing people who are prepared to pose new and different questions, and are no longer satisfied with the old, worn-out answers." He passed away on February 4, 2000
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    The Dreams of Gaia
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    Vonorn & Lady Sue
    Wolfsong
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    Steven Feld
    Rainforest Soundwalks: Ambiences of Bosavi Papua New Guinea
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    Caryn Lin
    The Call
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      1.
      Crackling Fire
      Ruth Ann Goode, PhD
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      Forest Ambience (Nature Sounds Only version)
      Nature Sound Series
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      3.
      Spirit Of The Buffalo
      Gary Sephira
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      4.
      Dance of the Muse
      David Nevue
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      5.
      Origin
      Scott McNulty
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      6.
      Past
      Scott McNulty
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      7.
      Present
      Scott McNulty
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      Onward: to the future
      Scott McNulty
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      Relaxing
      Janet Marlow
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      Soothing
      Janet Marlow
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