Bird Music

[Confused]

Some actual bird song, and a rather sad news story.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56417544

[sphinxsix]

On 3/17/2021 at 4:32 PM, Confused said:

Some actual bird song, and a rather sad news story.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56417544

 

People teaching birds their birdsong which is becoming forgotten - unbelievable..

 

Meanwhile the Indonesians' deep affection for birdsong being the reason why many bird species are endangered in Indonesia:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/sold_for_a_song

 

 

 

Let's fuse threads on a lighter note now.

 

 

[sphinxsix]

Ride the Wild Turkey · Jerry Douglas

 

 

[sphinxsix]

I'm sure I've already said it - I'm a huge fan of magpies and magpie music.

 

The Unthanks.

 

 

Magpies..

 

 

[Confused]

 

 

[sphinxsix]

The world of today - drunk magpies, criminal swans..

 

 

On the darker bird note..

 

 

[sphinxsix]

A song from a well known bird lover - Jerry Garcia.

 

 

[christopher3393]

Listening to Music in the Desert at Dawn:

Terry Tempest Williams, an author and environmental activist, on bird song, Keith Jarrett and slowing down.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/arts/music/terry-tempest-williams-music.html

 

 

[sphinxsix]

1 hour ago, christopher3393 said:

Listening to Music in the Desert at Dawn:

Terry Tempest Williams, an author and environmental activist, on bird song, Keith Jarrett and slowing down.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/arts/music/terry-tempest-williams-music.html

 

 

 

Thanks a lot!

Some quotes from the article:

 

"In your book “When Women Were Birds,” you describe childhood memories of your grandmother creating candlelit listening parties, where she would play records for you and your brother. They included classical music, but also field recordings of bird song."

 

"I was a child in 1962, when my grandmother read Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring.” We were in her garden putting seeds in bird feeders. And she said, “Terry, can you imagine a world without bird song?” It was a terrifying thought. Birds allow us to be present in the moment, but they also link me to a time before the human record and to what will be as we live our own apocalypse in terms of climate collapse. So they’re an arrow pointing in both directions.

Messiaen said, “It is in a spirit of no confidence in myself, or I mean in the human race, that I have taken bird songs as a model.” And he goes on to talk about the “sovereign freedom” of birds.

That is a beautiful paradox I hear in his music. Birds are the ultimate symbol of freedom. They are also the symbol of presence. They hold their past, and we pray that they will carry the earth into the future. Here he was a devout Catholic, and yet he sought his spiritual source not from God but from God’s creation."

 

 

[sphinxsix]

Bird music in space..

BTW I wonder what audio gear they might have out there..

And of course if their audio formats are deblurred 

 

Cranes in their nest-Japan

 

 

Morning Star and Devil Bird- Australia

 

 

 

[sphinxsix]

Rhiannon Giddens has just issued another album with Francesco Turrisi.

 

 

[orresearch]

That 1980s big hairdo ... Stevie Nicks, NIGHTBIRD

 

 

 

[clipper]

 

[clipper]

Demo track that became The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This.

 

 

[christopher3393]

 

[Iving]

"Birds And Ships" from Mermaid Avenue - the Billy Bragg / Wilco Woody Guthrie project - here with Natalie Merchant:

 

[sphinxsix]

Fusing bird, cow and daily blues music.. 

 

 

[sphinxsix]

Looking back at this thread I come to the conclusion there hasn't been enough sex on it.

 

 

[sphinxsix]

Let's get serious.

 

 

[christopher3393]

 

[sphinxsix]

10th most popular article on today Guardian is more than 2 years old.  

Sounds mysterious? 

It's simply an article about a parrot 

 

"A parrot has been taken into custody in northern Brazil following a police raid targeting crack dealers.

According to reports in the Brazilian press, the bird had been taught to alert criminals to police operations in Vila Irmã Dulce, a low-income community in the sun-scorched capital of Piauí state, by shouting: “Mum, the police!”

The parrot, who has not been named, was seized on Monday afternoon when officers swooped on a drug den run by a local couple.

“He must have been trained for this,” one officer involved in the operation said of the two-winged wrongdoer. “As soon as the police got close he started shouting.”

A Brazilian journalist who came face to face with the imprisoned parrot on Tuesday described it as a “super obedient” creature – albeit one that had kept its beak firmly shut after being “arrested”.

“So far it hasn’t made a sound … completely silent,” the reporter said.

Alexandre Clark, a local vet, confirmed the parrot had not cooperated: “Lots of police officers have come by and he’s said nothing.”

 

And this wasn't the first parrot which cooperated with drug dealers:

 

 

 

                           

[Iving]

[avian] Incredible String Band

 

Useless info:
First ISB trio included Mike Heron
If new to ISB and sounds odd, they were influential on Beatles [Sgt. Pepper], Stones [Satanic Majesties] and Led Zepp.
Could've posted in "Weed" I suppose!

 

Ducks On A Pond ('Wee Tam', 1968)

 

Footsteps Of The Heron ('The Incredible String Band', 1966)

 

Curlew (afaik recorded between 1966-1972 and unreleased till 2009)

 

[Tokyokyoto]

 

[Iving]

Polly Come Home - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss ('Raising Sand', 2007)

 

 

[Confused]