The grounding sounds of nature ft. Cosmo Sheldrake
Ground yourself as Erland shares reflective music that celebrates our connection with the world around us. And fellow ecological musician Cosmo Sheldrake shares his safe haven.
Ground yourself鈥� In this episode, Scottish composer Erland Cooper invites you to place your ear to the soil and dig deep with a selection of reflective music that celebrates our connection with the world around us. He reflects on one of his own projects that involved burying a tape deep in the peaty earth of Orkney, and shares pieces that honour nature from the field recordings of Alice Boyd and the RSPB, to the folk songs of Sam Lee and Trans Voices.
Also, we鈥檙e transported to the musical safe haven of another ecologically minded musician, Cosmo Sheldrake. Cosmo鈥檚 own music platforms environmental issues and the entangled nature of our world, and for his safe haven selects a recording of forest singing that always brings him calm.
Produced by Kit Callin
A Reduced Listening production
On radio
Music Played
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Tiny Leaves
Anthropocene
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Cosmo Sheldrake
Owl Song
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Kara鈥怢is Coverdale
Suspension of Swallowed Earth
- Smalltown Supersound.
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Lucy Gooch
Stalagmites & Helicitites
- Fire Records.
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Erland Cooper
Carve the runes then be content with silence excerpt
- Mercury KX.
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Park Jiha
Grounding
- Tak:til.
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Alice Boyd & RSPB
Return of the White-tailed Eagle
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Iona Brown
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
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Kin Leonn & Hiroshi Ebina
Forest future
- Kitchen. Label.
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Cosmo Sheldrake
Numinous (instrumental)
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Louis Sarno & The Babenz茅l茅 Pygmies
Women gathering mushrooms
- Ellipsis Arts.
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Sam Lee & Trans Voices
Green Mossy Banks
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John Cage & Margaret Leng Tan
In A Landscape
- New Albion.
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Lomond Campbell
We go slow
- One Little Independent Records.
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Erland Cooper & Dara McAnulty
Skreevar
- Mercury KX.
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Einojuhani Rautavaara
Missa a cappella for chorus: Kyrie
Performer: Latvian Radio Choir. Director: Sigvards K募ava.- ONDINE.
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