Single, Unedited Recordings

Long, single, unedited recordings are very special. They allow the listener to hear time passing at a natural pace.

This 'slow listening' is the way nature works. It reflects nature's pace of activity. And listening at nature's pace slows down our racing minds, allowing us to mentally rest and concentrate.

Each of these recordings has been made by simply placing microphones in a natural environment, and allowing them to capture the natural flow of events. One place, one time. Simple.

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A Forest Trail to the Burmese Hills

Exotic birdsong is heard on a forest trail that winds into remote hill forests of western Thailand.

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Zanzibar: Rainforest of the Spice Island

The rich soundscape of an equatorial rainforest off the African coast.

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Fitzroy River Gorge

Fairy martins twitter overhead, while tropical birdsong echoes off the rockwalls of a remote gorge in Australia's north

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The Melodious Forest - Papua New Guinea's Uplands

An extended recording from Papua's mid-altitude rainforests, which are rich in melodious birdsong

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The Far Southeast - Gippsland's Coastal Forest

A spectacular palette of birdsong from a pocket of coastal temporate rainforest in far southeast Australia

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The Pied Butcherbirds of Ormiston Gorge

100th Album Celebration: Pied Butcherbirds sing by moonlight with melodic grace, their voices echoing from the rock walls of Ormiston Gorge

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Adirondack Lake

Spring passerine birdsong and the deep growls of bullfrogs drift across a small lake at dawn in the Adirondack Mountains

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Birdsong Among the Ruins

Spring birdsong echoes around the ruins of the ancient Mediterranean city of Termessos

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Dawn Chorus: New Zealand

The warbling of Tuis begins a vibrant dawn chorus of New Zealand's native birdsong

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Highland Rain

A gentle rainstorm soaks the cloudforest in the New Guinea highlands

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Paperbarks by Still Water

Sit under paperbark trees by the still waters of Cajeput Waterhole, with a wealth of birdsong all around

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Mossforest - New Guinea

A rare recording of the soundscape from cloudforest high in the mountains of New Guinea.

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A Wetland Restored

Waterfowl and bush birdsong has returned to Lake Gladstone in the Kimberley region of Australia's far north

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Tikarpada - An Indian Forest Stream

Birdsong drifts from teak forest overhanging a gently flowing stream in India

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Tantawangalo

A fern-lined stream flows through the forest of Australia's southern highlands

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European Woodland Stream

Nightingales sing from the bushes beside the waters of a European stream

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Julius River - A Stream in the Tarkine

A stream flows through the Tarkine, with birdsong heard from surrounding temperate rainforest

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The First Dawn

Africa - the cradle of humanity. This soundscape from the wooded edge of a seasonal lake may be little changed from what our distant ancestors knew.

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Papuan Dawn

3 hour recording over dawn in the mountain rainforest of Papua New Guinea’s remote Huon peninsula.

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In the Refuge of a Fern Gully

Birdsong filters through mountain forest in Australia's eastern highlands.

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Morning at the Lutownia River

by Izabela Dluzyk. A single-take recording of a morning soundscape made near the Lutownia river in the Bialowieza primeval forest in Poland

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Honeyeaters Sing in an Outback Dawn

A complete dawn chorus from Australia's Sturt Desert, featuring a variety of honeyeater voices weaving together

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The River Forest

Gentle morning birdsong and frogcalls from the river red gum forests of the Murray river

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The Dancing Brolgas of Ooroolanie

Brolgas call among a fantastic diversity of birdlife attracted to an ephemeral wetland in the Australian outback

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Khao Yai Rainforest

Occasional birdsong and a susuration of soft insects filters through the rainforest canopy of Khao Yai

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Bialowieza I - Stara Twilight

by Geoff Sample. Deep forest birdsong, timeless and distinctively European, from the Bialowieza Forest in Poland.

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Pacific Rainforest - Vanuatu

The mellow whistles of Shrikebills and other rare birdsong blends with the murmur of Fruit Doves and distant wave wash in an island rainforest

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Les Suetes

by Mark Brennan. Summer season birdsong and the sigh of boreal winds, heard in a Canadian lake shore forest.

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Yosemite: Mariposa Grove Dawn

by Dan Dugan. A magnificent Sierra Nevada dawn chorus at the peak of the breeding season.

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Coral Beach

Gentle waves wash ashore on a tropical island, with coral fragments tinkling in the backwash.

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