Running Time:

75 min

Release Date:

August 2008

Recording Location:

Listed with field notes, link below
http://www.listeningearth.com/albums/32Frogs/32Frogs_Notes.htm

Frogs, Frogs, Frogs!

Frogs - the masters of natural rhythm!

Actually, frogs are the opposite; they don't call on the beat, but a-synchronously, into the silences between each other in a complex chorusing behaviour. The result is those hypnotic and pulsing waves of frog song we know and love.

This album presents a collection of talented amphibians from around Australia. Beginning with a multi-species chorus grounded by the baritone 'Plunk!'s of Pobblebonks (Banjo Frogs), we move around the country in search of nocturnal amphibian cacophonies. We hear green tree frogs in tropical rainforest, concertos in celebration of summer rains, wetland soundscapes, dry country burrowing frogs, and poly-textural choruses emanating from bush waterholes. Singing frogs, whistling frogs, croaking, laughing and clicking frogs... they're all here in wonderful, noisy abandon.

A soothing and fascinating album to delight the frog-ophile in you.

 

Audio sample of this album

1.

Pobblebonk Chorus

6.20

2.

Approaching Rainy Season

4.20

3.

Laughing Tree Frogs

3.18

4.

Froglets and Toadlets

5.13

5.

Striped Marsh Frogs (Northern race)

3.17

6.

Sudell's Frogs

3.49

7.

After the Summer Rains 1

2.51

8.

After the Summer Rains 2

1.56

9.

Desert Tree Frogs

2.07

10.

Green-thighed Frogs

5.28

11.

Dwarf Green Frogs

4.01

12.

Northern Pobblebonks

4.32

13.

Bleating Tree Frogs

3.21

14.

Spotted Marsh Frogs

5.10

15.

Tyler's Toadlets and Brown Tree Frog

4.52

16.

Striped Marsh Frogs (Southern race)

4.17

17.

The Common Eastern Froglet

3.10

18.

Lea's Frogs

3.12

19.

Western Spotted Frogs

4.17

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Customer reviews of this album

I adore what I have heard of your 'music.' Can't decide which is my favourite - 'Rain in the Forest' or 'Frogs, Frogs, Frogs!'

Kate

A big thank you for the frog CD. I can now have frog sounds in my garden even though I do not have any. Maybe this cd will help attract wild frogs into my garden.

Leon

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