Forest Full Of Cuckoos. Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve, Estonia. Mai 29, 2020 by Andrus Kannel published on 2021-07-31T16:35:59Z One slightly older recording which I recorded during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. Forest with thrushes and cuckoos in the foreground, ural owl and bittern in the background Tascam Dr-100 MK III digital recorder An Azden microphone pre-amplifier/mixer Handmade phantom powered Primo Microphones with EM172 capsules. 24 bit 48kHz Genre Nature recording Comment by Douglas Langley You are transporting me back to spring. Beautiful work! 2021-09-03T13:38:29Z Comment by Douglas Langley Are these also cuckoo vocalisations after the main cuckoo calls? 2021-09-03T13:37:10Z Comment by Fintan O'Brien This is an extremely good recording. It would be nice to see it on Bandcamp so I can buy it. Such a pity I couldn't make it over to Estonia this year. 2021-08-21T18:28:02Z Comment by Hearing Beings A quintessential sublimity sounds out here... I would agree with Hank that "This is the best music...", except that I cannot hear this as 'music', because it is the real and actual sounding out of a rich and complex Lifeworld, it is the sound of healthy Life itself, and that is not 'music', it is the deep, fertile mother-soil of all humanity, and what humans conceive of as 'music' is an abstraction, an abstract reflection, of the sounding-out of such Lifeworlds. All musical beauty and emotion owes its content, its depth, its life and richness, to these primordial depths of experience. These are what have made us 'human': biologically, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. Our human 'music' is just our way of articulating and celebrating this truth. Personally, I confess that I really do prefer the 'original soil', the 'original forest'. Here, you've shared a moving example of one of its infinitely variable soundings. (I would love to hear this with time expanded...) 2021-08-01T23:52:05Z Comment by Hearing Beings :-) 2021-08-01T23:37:17Z Comment by hanklebury This is the best music :-) 2021-08-01T22:00:42Z