The Birdsong Project

 

 

On September 7, NPR dropped an episode of All Songs Considered about an enormous new compilation album called "For The Birds: The Birdsong Project." It's a massive collection of original songs and poems about birds and inspired by birdsong. Artists range from Alice Coltrane, Nick Cave, Laurie Anderson, and The Flaming Lips to Sam Prekop, Devendra Banhart, Yo Yo Ma, and of course Andrew Bird & Jeff Tweedy.

Here's a link to the episode - https://www.npr.org/2022/09/06/1121237661/this-episode-is-for-the-birds

As I listened to the collection for a few days at work, my ambient brain thought of using some of the instrumental tracks in a mix. So for this mix all the tracks come from The Birdsong Project. Most of the cuts have worked bird sounds in with the music.

Unfortunately this collection is not available on Bandcamp. So it's very expensive to buy the full compilation, with the vinyl box set selling for $400 and the mp3 downloads going for $38 per volume. So I would suggest listening to the collection on Spotify which you can find here - https://www.audubon.org/news/the-birdsong-project-box-set

Here's one more link to check out - https://www.thebirdsongproject.com/

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Shearwater - Kwitaro Backbone
• 05:33    Sam Prekop - Stations Parallel
• 10:12    Aska Matsumiya - Tori No Uta
• 12:57    Paul Cantelon - Hymn for Four Birds
• 18:41    Makaya McCraven - For The Birds
• 21:27    Elliot Bergman - Crow Dialectic
• 25:27    Andrew Bird - Rare Birds
• 32:22    Joachim Cooder - Carolina Turtledove
• 34:55    Carla dal Forno - Morning Maggie
• 37:04    Devendra Banhart - Ka
• 40:20    Dexter Story - Wefoch(Birds)
• 43:40    Stuart Bogie - Far Rockaway
• 49:11    Woodkid - Altamira Oriole
• 51:57    Marcelo Zarvos - Nightbird
• 55:39    Cosmo Sheldrake - Evening Chorus(Live in the Bluebell Woods)
• 60:27    end