American Forests & Lakes

Jean C. Roche | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 1997)
• Original Release Date: April 22, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sittelle
• ASIN: B000005FOX
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,098,943 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Canada: Marshes And Lakes Of The Interior, With Adjacent Prairies

2. Canada: Mixed Forests Of Quebec

3. West Indies: Martinique, Forested Mountains Of Pitons Du Carbet, In The North

4. Venezuela: Woods And Swamps Of The North Coast

5. Venezuela: Amazonian Forests In The Extreme South

6. Venezuela: A Mountain Forest In The North

7. Venezuela: Amazonian Woods And Marshes Of The Extreme South

8. Venezuela: Woods And Marshes, Surrounded By Cultivations, In The Foothills Of The Andes

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD of environmental sounds, June 7, 2000

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James Remsen, Jr. (Lindenhurst, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: American Forests & Lakes (Audio CD)

This is one of the best titles in the Sittelle series of environmental soundscapes. Although the title may suggest that it is a collection of sounds familiar to US and Canadian residents, this is actually sounds from "the Americas," not just North America.

The disc begins with two selections from North America, lengthy soundscapes portraying sounds from marshes and the north woods. Here are songbirds, the bizarre call of the American bittern (a type of heron whose "song" sounds like an old-fashioned pump handle), and a pack of wild wolves, who join in near the end! Then there is a Caribbean segment, featuring the beautiful flutelike song of the Rufous-throated Solitaire, a kind of thrush. Finally, there are five full soundscapes from South America, including the rich cacophony of the Amazon rainforest and sounds one might hear in the Andean foothills, including some nearly deafening choruses of frogs.

For a wide variety of sounds from the New World, this soundscape disc will serve very nicely. As with most Sittelle discs, this is not for relaxation. It is meant for active, engaged listening to the most dramatic of nature's voices.