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To celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day, and the upcoming release of Hidden Orchestra album 'Dawn Chorus', here is a special mixtape featuring only birdsong. Each track on the new album is built around a different one of these dawn chorus recordings, which I've collected over the years. See the tracklist below for the origins of each recording, and which album track they appear on.
Follow this link to stream 'Wingbeats' or 'Still' now, or to pre-order the album which is due for release on June 16th - https://truthoughts.lnk.to/dawnchoruspreorder
00:00 Storrington woods, West Sussex, December 2009 (First Light)
Under a tree near a stream in the woods, snow and ice
01:45 Castlebay harbour, Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides, August 2016 (Western Isles)
By a bush looking out into the harbour, sunny
02:55 Wild Park, Brighton, May 2016 (Still)
On a hill facing the sunrise, looking down a natural amphitheatre, overcast
09:39 Housel Bay, Lizard, Cornwall, June 2015 (The Lizard)
Out of a window overlooking the bay, very sunny
15:00 Zákolanský Forest, Prague, July 2016 (Long Orchard)
Under some trees next to a meadow with a small stream, children playing in a campsite, sunny
18:10 Alyth farm cottage, Kingdom of Fife, October 2011 (Alyth)
Looking out over quiet farmland after the harvest, light rain
18:28 Storrington village centre, West Sussex, May 2014 (Wingbeats)
Out of a window looking towards the hills, near the village church, sunny and fresh
26:11 Hyde Park, London, September 2016 (Serpentine)
Wandering around the park and the Serpentine Lake, overcast
27:00 Brighton seafront, June 2015 (Stone)
Out of a window looking towards the sea, grey clouds with rain and thunder
29:45 Edinburgh city centre, June 2014 (East London Street)
Out of a window overlooking shared tenement gardens, promising nice day
31:23 British Library Sound Archive recording by Carl Weismann (East London Street)
Scratchy 1947 archive recording of a wren, taken from vinyl at the British Library
- Genre
- Dawn Chorus