Solitudes Volume Ten

Dan Gibson - Solitudes Volume Ten

TRADEWIND ISLANDS (A Caribbean Adventure in Sound) side 1

The Trades have cooled the island. The starry canopy is fading. Day is about to break. The surf is rolling in. Curling up on the shallows, tumbling and splashing in sound patterns that have pleased the ear for as long as time.

We follow a trail Lafitte might have used, or Captain Teach or Morgan, and are surrounded by the wild calls in a tropical forest. Then a rooster crows in the distance and the first rays of the sun send a hint of orange across the sky. And then a strange sound. Is it the creaking of an island schooner's ancient timbers? None is in sight. Is it the eerie sounds of an island ghost? The mystifying sound is, in fact, made by bamboo, bending in the wind, stalk against stalk.

In the early morning light we can see seabirds at clifftops, soaring and swooping and tending their young.

Wildlife species featured: Tropical Mockingbird, Rufous-vented Chachalaca, Eared Dove, Buff-throated Woodcreeper, Redcrowned Woodpecker, Barred Antshrike, Bananaquit, Red-billed Tropicbird. And many other species in the background.

TRADEWIND ISLANDS (A Caribbean Adventure in Sound) side 2

Just before daybreak on another day we are surrounded with sounds familiar and sounds most people will never hear. The wildlife of the rain forest is high in the trees and vines, close at hand in the lush underbrush, everywhere. And yet, is seldom seen. A flash of red and brilliant blue, as a wing tip cuts across a thin bright shaft of sunlight that has found a rare, clear passage through the trees - the rest is sound. The sound of the swift running stream that cuts a silvery green swath across the forest floor. And the gentle sounds, the startling sounds, the raucus, the surprising sounds of life in the tropical rain forest.

Wildlife species featured: Toad, Tree Frog, Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Coca Thrush, Orange-winged Parrot, Crested Oropendola, Great Kiskadee, Rufous-breasted Wren, Bearded Bellbird, Violaceous Trogon, White-tipped Dove, Streaked Flycatcher, Black-faced Antthrush, Southern House Wren. And many other species in the background.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Tradewind Islands (A Caribbean Adventure in Sound) side 1 {29:48}

Side 2

1. Tradewind Islands (A Caribbean Adventure in Sound) side 2 {29:41}

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