Bird Song Recorded in Songs. (1 Viewer)

[Monahawk]

My eldest daughter played me a track called Kings and Queens by a band called Thirty Seconds from Mars. It has an eagle [unknown type] calling at the very begining.

Si.

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Paul Winter's stuff is famous for including lots of bird and animal sounds e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBrcRnWdm94
Very good although sometimes a bit 'new age' for me.

 

[Monahawk]

Thanks for that Andrew. Interesting, but I agree with you a bit new age even a touch like hotel lounge type music.

Si.

 

[Quercus]

Faithless.... Drifting Away. I'm not sure if the birdsong is real, synthetic or just generic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdFgYwRsdS4

....Warning........ link contains mildly rude word!

 

[Captain_of_Crunch]

Heart in Home by KWES features a nice recording of a Robin.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=150726

 

[Monahawk]

Listening to the radio early this morning I picked up on gull sounds in Otis Reddings classic Dock of the Bay. No matter how often I have heard this song, it completely slipped my radar with regards to adding it to this thread. Not sure which type of gulls they are though.

Si.

 

[SiG]

Well now. I strongly recommend you listen closely to both albums by the Imagined Village. Given that the second one is on Emmerson Corncrake Constantine records that might give you a clue. That's Mark Constantine, of the Sound Approach to Birding. The Corncrake should need little introduction. And Simon Emmerson of Working Week, producer with Realword/Gabriel/Baaba Maal and of course the man behind Afro Celt Soundsystem and now, with input from Paul Weller, Billy Bragg and many more, the founder of the Imagined Village. And a bit of a birder. You can get quite a list from Simon's various albums ... I spent a bit of time on tour with AfroCelts in the 90s and Godwits were a regular topic of conversation on the tour bus ...

Have a listen to this ...

http://www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk...m=web&utm_campaign=flash_links&utm_term=title

 

[steveo]

Im sorry guys this is my daughters favorite song of all time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LEYwoooVfw

 

[stevieb]

Manfred Manns Earth band-The brilliant 'Nightingales and bombers.

 

[Monahawk]

Hi Steve. The whole recording of Nightingale and RAF bombers can be heard on the excellent Nightingales:A Celebration CD issued by the BTO a few years ago. Recorded [illegally because of censorship] by the BBC in Surrey in May 1942 one can hear a nightingale singing merrily away to itself amid the din of Lancaster and Wellington bombers passing overhead on their way to a raid over Germany. To me it remains one of the most amazing recordings of birdsong ever made, a real war and peace scenario. I presume Manfred Manns Earth Band used a part of the same recording on a track of theirs.

Si.

 

[YourBirdOasis]

Check out the Beatles timeless hit "Blackbird", it's a real lovely song.

 

[stevieb]

Hi Steve. The whole recording of Nightingale and RAF bombers can be heard on the excellent Nightingales:A Celebration CD issued by the BTO a few years ago. Recorded [illegally because of censorship] by the BBC in Surrey in May 1942 one can hear a nightingale singing merrily away to itself amid the din of Lancaster and Wellington bombers passing overhead on their way to a raid over Germany. To me it remains one of the most amazing recordings of birdsong ever made, a real war and peace scenario. I presume Manfred Manns Earth Band used a part of the same recording on a track of theirs.

Si.

Si you are right.

Taken from Wikki

The title of this album was inspired by a recording made in Surrey, England during the Second World War, by an ornithologist intending to record Nightingales. The bombers flew over at the same time and were recorded by accident. The recording has been incorporated in 'As Above, So Below'". - Manfred Mann 1975[1] (In fact, the recording was made on the 19th May 1942 by a BBC sound engineer for the BBC. Intending to capture the nightingale's song he also, by accident, recorded the sound of RAF bombers on their way to attack Mannheim, Germany.)

 

[Monahawk]

Just thought I'd dig out this old thread again.
Check out Radioheads new album The King of Limbs. At the start of the track Give up the Ghost, there is what sounds like a distorted recording of a chaffinch song. It could well be something else of course as this band are well into sound distortions.
Any Radioheaders out there know any different?

Si.