Ten artists have each provided a track showing their individual interpretation of a field recording of nightingale bird song made by
Phil Cleaver at Glapthorn Cow Pastures. The resulting album, entitled
Nightingale Variations, is due to be released in September this year.
The source music was nine minutes of recorded nightingale bird song which was then offered to various different artists to see what the could come up with from it; using the recording however they wished just so long as it was used in some part.
The artists who have contributed are (in alphabetical order):
Oliver Cherer (
Dollboy),
John Foxx,
Andrew Liles (
Nurse With Wound,
Current 93,
Faust),
Laurie Laptop (
The Durutti Column),
Micronormous (
Mathew Eaton Pram),
Slipstream,
Michael Tanner (
Plinth A Lords),
Mark Tranmer (
gnac),
Windy and Carl and
Woodcraft Folk.
The nine minute recording of male nightingale bird song was recorded during the early; spring when the unpaired male nightingale shows off its loud, melodic and percussive song as it looks to attract a mate and defend the bird's territory. The song of the nightingale has been described as one of the most beautiful sounds in nature. Loud, with an impressive range of whistles, trills and gurgles, it has been inspiring songs, fairy tales, opera, books, and a great deal of poetry over many years.
I've been advised that John's contribution is entitled
A Small Wood In A Big World.
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Rob