Customer Reviews

Green Meadow Stream

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This is among the very best nature recordings I have every listened to - and I have been collecting them from all over the world for years.

As an avid hiker, it reminds me of those few exquisite days, when I happen to hit it just right, that the earth's music unfolds like the most compelling symphony.

Gorgeous !

I thought this cd would be background noise that I would, for the most part, ignore. It turned out to be very soothing, but also, astonishingly interesting. I think sometimes our busy, industrialized lives lead us to ignore nature's simple, but profoundly beautiful intricacies. This cd is a welcome reminder.

One more time Bernie Krause has made an outstanding recording of natural sounds. I live in a very large city where natural sounds exist, but not as dense as the ones recorded in Green Meadow Stream. It is the density, fabric of sounds that gives this album its real pleasure. I use Krause's recordings, this one is my third, to truly relax. You might say I have not even heard the whole thing since I fall asleep concentrating on the sound of the stream and the bird calls. His very best recording is, however, Kalimantan: Heaven Before Time, truly beautiful. No doubt about it, you have to like this sort of thing to appreciate sounds of nature as foreground. As background sound this stuff will drive you nuts.

Bernie Krause has made a career of preserving the sound of endangered and some now lost environments. His diligence in developing the proper recording techniques provides us with a crystal clear and balanced album of a Sierra stream and its variety of nearby chirping birds. It can be compared to A Day on Cape Cod/Babbling Brook issued by Rykodisc. The mountain stream is somewhat more vigorous and the recording has a greater depth of sound from the rising terrain and broad meadow; of course, the bird species differ. The album has the fine qualities desired for an environmental recording, whether for easing the mind or reminding us of an enjoyable mountain hike. Krause tells us that this particular soundscape no longer exists because of logging.

Sure, anybody can do this. It did not take much creativity to go down to a real stream and tape it. So what's new up or down out there in that meadow you are in? Hey get with it it is 1999 and Y2K ready!!