Running Time:

60 min

Release Date:

June 2013

Recording Location:

Ayers Lake, New Brunswick
Abraham Lake, Nova Scotia
Eastern Canada

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A Wilderness Lake

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This album reveals the rich soundscape of the Boreal and Acadian forests of Eastern Canada during the Northern Spring.

Recorded in two specially chosen locations, it takes us to the forested shorelines of Ayers Lake in New Brunswick, and Abraham Lake in Nova Scotia - both treasured locations by many who love the natural world.

The sounds come from a collection all recorded on location and feature many of the amphibians and migrant tropical birds to be heard in these places.

Mark comments:

“These days we have to travel far to find such pristine soundscapes and habitats. I was very fortunate to have been able to record in these wonderful locations, and also to experience them on a deep level.”

Audio sample of this album

1.

Wetland

5.35

2.

First Light

3.21

3.

The Sapsucker

3.34

4.

Stream at the Edge of the Lake

2.07

5.

Rain Shower

7.55

6.

A Message from the Forest

4.57

7.

Breeze over the Hidden Wetland

3.19

8.

Woodpeckers at Dawn

10.08

9.

The Woodcock

3.18

10.

Sunrise in the Old Growth

15.49

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Mp3:

Mp3 is a universal audio format, playable on iPods, computers, media players and mobile phones.

Mp3 is a compressed format, allowing smaller filesizes, offering faster download times and requiring less storage space on players, but at some expense to the audio quality. Many listeners can't really hear the difference between mp3 and full CD-quality audio, and hence its convenience has lead to it becoming the default option for audio.

Our albums are generally encoded at around 256kbps (sometimes with VBR), balancing optimal audio quality without blowing out filesizes excessively. We encode using the Fraunhoffer algorithm, which preserves more detail in the human audible range than the lame encoder.

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FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is a LOSSLESS compressed audio format. This means that it preserves the full audio quality of a CD, but optimises the filesize for downloading. Typically, file sizes of around 60% are achieved without any degradation or loss of audio quality from the source files at the CD standard of 16bit/44.1kHz.

Obviously the file sizes are larger than for the mp3 version - usually around 300-400Mb for an album, compared to 100Mb for an mp3 album.

In addition, you'll need to know what to do with the files once you've downloaded them. In most cases you'll want to decode the files to wav or aiff, either to import into programs like iTunes, or burn to CDR. Some programs will play flac files natively.

There is a lot of information about flac online (eg: http://flac.sourceforge.net/)