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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Chris Watson
Title......: Outside the Circle of Fire
Rip Date...: May-14-2007 Cat.No.....: TO:37
Style......: Ambient Label......: Touch
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 63,7 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
The purr of a leopard close up against a baobab tree, waiting.
Whales surfacing, breathing in cold air. Coll starling imitate the
noise of farm machinery from the hollow ring of a ruined bothy.
The rattle of wood over a black stream... Chris Watson's second CD
is a dramatic contrast to the spacious atmospheres of
"Steppinareness of the sound universe, intimate with voices from
the past. There is an intensity here that television pictures
cannot conjure.
...unusual things done with microphones...Watson's record is a
kind of anti-new-age field recording which, instead of using
natural sounds to create an audio Radox bath (full of natural
essences), hurls you into the centre of nature at its most
enigmatic and terrifying. Kicking off with the sound of a cheetah
purring (a lovely deep rumble) he presents us with monkeys, birds,
whales (don't groan) and at one point the horrifying sound of nine
vultures feeding off a zebra carcass (recorded from within the
carcass). Recorded with astounding precision (recording is his day
job after all) and packaged with the kind of care and attention to
detail we've come to expect from Touch, this is an indispensable
document from a leading experimental label. (Richard Sanderson)
Tape-splicing avant-gardist-turned-sound collector Chris Watson
has spent his post-Cabaret Voltaire/post-Hafler Trio years
circling the globe, high-output microphones at the ready, on a
very private quest for the secret languages of the natural
kingdom.
Using the audio equivalent of a telephoto zoom lens, Watson gets
so close to his subjects that you can feel the stiff white hairs
on the cheetah's chest rising and falling with each reposeful
breath and taste the salty spume of surfacing whales. The
confusion of flocking masses of birds and the nervous urgency of
hungry spider monkeys is so in-focus that it becomes your own. As
vultures crowd at the carcass of a zebra, cawing gluttonously
between beakfuls of flyblown flesh, the sweet-sick stench of decay
seems to flood the room, out of place and time, intensifying in
queasy waves as bluebottles buzz faintly in the distance. A red
deer stag steps to the forest's edge in Scotland, and his virile
bellow is suffused with the animal tang of musk. While some may
experience a sense of kinship with the 'circle of life' and the
brotherhood of the living and breathing, I'm struck instead by the
utter non-humanness of these sounds. Our distant Darwinian
brothers and sisters these animals may be, but the hippopotamus'
comical grunts, the songs of starlings, tinkerbirds, corncrakes,
and other rara avis, and the defiant growl of a domineering
lioness are formed by throats so unlike ours that they may as well
be alien. If the titular Circle of Fire represents the cramped
world of tool-using, opposable-thumbed, Prometheus-favored Homo
sapiens sapiens, then the array of natural sounds here (presented,
as ever, as "unsweetened" and unadulterated documentary events)
serves to remind us of the vast wildness that contains it. Which
only makes the colicky-infant cries of cliff-dwelling kittiwakes,
the contented snores of a sleeping elephant family, and the
chitinous, finger-tapping fumbles of deathwatch beetles - sounds
so far removed from our world, yet uncannily suggestive of its
familiar trappings- all the more provocative. Outside The Circle
Of Fire is as much about the natural environments in which Watson
first encountered these creatures as it is about their fascinating
noises. Elemental echoes pervade every track, and Watson's
microphones are just as sensitive to the windy gusts, parched
earth, leaf-littered forest floors, and peninsular waters that
define the mis-en-scene and provide the subconscious cues for
these captured voices.
-ggotes
p l a y l i s t
01 adult cheetah resting by beobab tree 01:51
02 southern right whale surfacing in the south 00:14
atlantic ..
03 male capercallie display, caledonian pine forest 05:55
04 red rumped tinkerbird, rain forest, cameroon 00:14
05 hippopotami emerging from river mara at dusk 05:48
06 massed knot roost on shingle bank, snettisham, 03:50
norfolk ..
07 starling song by nest site in ruined bothy, 01:15
island of coll, western isles, scotland ..
08 spider monkeys moving through tree canopy, santa 04:53
rosa nat. park, costarica ..
09 lemon rumped tinkerbird, rain forest, cameroon 00:53
10 corncrake songs from territorial males,. island 02:31
of coll, western isles, scotland ..
11 lioness threatens male, itong plains, kenya 00:09
12 vultures, nine birds feeding on zebra carcass, 03:22
itong plains, kenya ..
13 red deer stag roar by forest edge, glen affric, 00:26
scotland ..
14 unidentified pair of birds singing hidden in 01:34
tree canopy, nancite, costa rica ..
15 mozambique nightjar singing in sandy scrub on 02:58
banks of zambezi, zimbabwe ..
16 insect hidden in the leaf litter, rain forest, 00:50
cameroon ..
17 kittiwakes, colony around cliff nest sites, 03:24
dunstanburgh castle, northumberland ..
18 woodpigeon wing past mics, coille na ulaidh, 00:20
glen affric, scotland ..
19 elephants, family group asleep in rough 04:53
grassland, maasai mara, kenya ..
20 deathwatch beetles, advertising display in oak 01:40
beam, edingthorpe, norfolk ..
21 tawny owls, calls on territorial boundaries, 03:01
bolam lake, northumberland ..
22 spotted hyena contact whoops, billashaka luger, 00:32
maasai mara, kenya ..
50:33 min
g r e e t i n g s
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def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
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