11 Sep 2022

For the Birds

From New Horizons, 5:00 pm on 11 September 2022

William Dart goes aloft with four volumes of a new Audubon Society project titled For the Birds. Artists include Nick Cave, Tilda Swinton, Laurie Anderson and Loudon Wainwright.

Close-up of an azure kingfisher sitting on a branch

Azure Kingfisher, Julatten, Queensland, Australia Photo: J J Harrison https://www.jjharrison.com.au/

Music Details

ARTIST: (birds)
TITLE: (variety of NZ bird calls)
ALBUM: Birds of New Zealand
COMPOSER: -
LABEL: Viking

ARTIST: Pierre-Laurent Aimard et al
TITLE: Le Réveil des oiseaux
ALBUM: Messiaen: Poèmes pour mi
COMPOSER: Messiaen
LABEL: DG

ARTIST: Dudley Benson
TITLE: Tui
ALBUM: Forest: Songs by Hirini Melbourne
COMPOSER: Melbourne arr Benson
LABEL: Golden Retriever

ARTIST: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis
TITLE: Wood Dove
ALBUM: For the Birds: The Birdsong Project
COMPOSER: Cave, Ellis
LABEL: Downtown Records

ARTIST: Darius Christian, Reginald Chapman
TITLE: Bone's Lament
ALBUM: For the Birds: The Birdsong Project
COMPOSER: Christian, Chapman
LABEL: Downtown Records

ARTIST: Tilda Swinton
TITLE: Sparrow
ALBUM: For the Birds: The Birdsong Project
COMPOSER: MacCaig
LABEL: Downtown Records

ARTIST: Karen O
TITLE: Hum Hum Hum
ALBUM: For the Birds: The Birdsong Project
COMPOSER: Karen O
LABEL: Downtown Records

ARTIST: Cosmo Sheldrake
TITLE: Evening Chorus (Live in the Bluebell Woods)
ALBUM: For the Birds: The Birdsong Project
COMPOSER: Sheldrake
LABEL: Downtown Records

ARTIST: Jason Chronis, Ramesh Srivastava
TITLE: Birdsong
ALBUM: For the Birds: The Birdsong Project
COMPOSER: Chronis, Srivastava
LABEL: Downtown Records

ARTIST: Alice Coltrane, Elliot Bergman
TITLE: Turiya (For the Birds Remix)
ALBUM: For the Birds: The Birdsong Project
COMPOSER: A Coltrane
LABEL: Downtown Records

ARTIST: Loudon Wainwright III
TITLE: Little Birdie
ALBUM: For the Birds: The Birdsong Project
COMPOSER: Wainwright III
LABEL: Downtown Records

ARTIST: Laurie Anderson
TITLE: Before the World
ALBUM: For the Birds: The Birdsong Project
COMPOSER: Anderson
LABEL: Downtown Records

ARTIST: Edward Hirsch
TITLE: Boy with a Headset
ALBUM: For the Birds: The Birdsong Project
COMPOSER: Hirsch
LABEL: Downtown Records

ARTIST: Craig Wedren
TITLE: Used Beak
ALBUM: For the Birds: The Birdsong Project
COMPOSER: Wedren
LABEL: Downtown Records

 

 

 

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