I really like natural sounds, me. Sounds that nature makes. Animals. The cow’s moo, the pig’s oink. The mole’s snouty burrowing. And insects! Who has not been enraptured by the mating cry of the ant? And weather! All that whooshing and thundering and pitter-pattering! It’s like a symphony to me. So when I heard Neil was issuing his own nature recordings album I was “naturally” (SWIDT?) elated! Neil has long been a strong proponent of all that is natural. His save-the-world agenda is best shown by the naturally organic wooden box he packs the Pono in, counterbalancing the toxic chemistry used to produce the much-loved music-playing thing, and the shackled Chinese children going blind at the benches as they solder another Pono For Peace must rejoice that the fruit of their labours is housed in sustainable hardwoods. Where was I?
Oh yes. This is Neil’s “field recordings” record. At last! The natural world can be heard in all its glory! Neil has used the finest copyright-free library recordings available (or he may have crawled across a field himself with a boom mic – the results are the same) and kind of mixed them together in a wholly new and some » Continue Reading.