Recorded over a period of four decades, the CD collects calls from 53 Australian bird species
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himRecorded over a period of four decades, the CD collects calls from 53 Australian bird species. Proceeds from sales will fund projects to save endangered species
An album featuring only Australian native bird calls tops the country's sales charts, beating Christmas classics such as Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé - and that's just a week after its release.
Songs of Disappearance, this is the title of the work, collects the calls and songs of 53 species of Australian birds threatened with extinction. A way to turn the spotlight on animal species in danger of life, but also a concrete strategy to make your contribution to their protection: all proceeds from sales, in fact, will go to the BirdLife Australia association, the most important Australian association for bird protection. Over 2.000 CDs have been sold so far, of which around 1.500 are in pre-sale - a result that goes far beyond the organizers' expectations.
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The project, which lasted about forty years, is the result of the collaboration between Anthony Albrecht, a student at the time at Charles Darwin University, and his tutor Stephen Garnett, recently author of the Action Plan for Australian Birds - according to which about a sixth of the Australian birds is currently threatened with extinction. Thanks also to the support of a violinist, the two managed to create a "musical collage" that would put them together the calls of all the bird species featured in the CD, which became the album's opening track. The remaining traces are the records of the various bird species taken individually.
We listened to the calls of the different birds one after the other and found them incredibly moving - they explained the two researchers. - We continued to listen to them until we almost imagined a choir, a unitary structure: some of the sounds will shock the listeners, because they are more percussive than melodious.
The "collage" ends with the song of the nocturnal parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis), a mysterious species whose song was completely unknown to science until 2013 and which is considered "endangered" by the IUCN. Another particularly moving song is that of the regent honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia) a bird so rare that it is literally losing its voice due to its loneliness and the uselessness of its song, since it has no similars to communicate with. We really hope that the sale of this album can raise awareness among the Australian population (and beyond) to protect wildlife, threatened by the reckless action of man.
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Fonte: The Guardian / Songs of Disappearance
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