The Deep Listening Band -Troglodyte's Delight (1990)

The earth holds mysteries, and they are composed of movement and stillness. The sounds from below the surface are of particular interest to the Deep Listening Band. During early June of 1989, members of the Deep Listening Band explored the sound properties of The Tarpaper Cave in Rosendale, New York in a special underground concert and recording.

To me, this recording represents a unique fusion of "environmental" and "intuitive" music, a really enchanting experience.

Vocalist and electronics specialist Panaiotis: "We really wanted, as a group, to become an aspect of the cave. During the recording, and the concert, we were responding to the cave... (the idea being) to listen to the cave, and then, as the group participated, to respond to each other as well."

The Deep Listening Band spent a week in the cave preparing for the concert. Panaiotis used this time exploring different areas to find acoustic "hot spots, where things really blossom and resonate." ...
Where Panaiotis recalls the incessant and omnipresent mosquitoes of The Tarpaper Cave, trombonist Stuart Dempster remembers "the capriciousness of the lighting... mists blowing down with changes in the weather... it was like Valhalla from time to time..."
Stuart Dempster - trombone, didjeridu / Pauline Oliveros - accordion, voice, whistles / Panaiotis - voice
Guest artists: Fritz Hauser - percussion / Julie Lyon Balliett - voice

1 Cave Water

2 Quarry Query

3 Cannery Row

4 After Dinner With The Trogs

5 Rain Delay

6 Trog Arena

7 Cave Water

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