Author: Dan Gibson
Title: Solitudes: Environmental Sound Experiences Volume Ten - Tradewind Islands (A Caribbean Adventure In Sound)
Category: Non-Music
Style: Field Recording
Year: 1985
Notes: Tradewind Islands (A Caribbean Adventure In Sound)
At high noon, when the Trade Winds sweep across the islands, the shimmering heat that rises from the sandy beach distorts each image like a surrealist's brush. The winds skim across the surf, spraying the sky. But much later, all of this is swept away and replaced by a ceiling of stars that changes the breakers to great bars of silver moving towards shore. That is where we begin.
The Trades have cooled the island. The starry canopy is fading. Day is about to break. The surf is rolling in. Curling up on the shallows, tumbling and splashing in sound patterns that have pleased the ear for as long as time.
We follow a trail Lafitte might have used, or Captain Teach or Morgan, and are surrounded by the wild calls in a tropical forest. Then a rooster crows in the distance and the first rays of the sun send a hint of orange across the sky.
And then a strange sound. Is it the creaking of an island schooner's ancient timbers? None is in sight. Is it the eerie sounds of an island ghost? The mystifying sound is, in fact, made by bamboo, bending in the wind, stalk against stalk. In the early morning light we can see seabirds at clifftops, soaring and swooping and tending their young.
Just before daybreak on another day -
This time we can't see the brilliant star-filled sky, we are following a path along a mountain stream, climbing up into the closed world of the rain forest. The luxurious, verdant growth, stimulated by moisture brought by the Trade Winds and captured by the moutainside, is redolent with a thousand scents from flowers and other plants that have adapted to the rain forest's shadows and mists.
At dawn we are surrounded with sounds familiar and sounds most people will never hear. The wildlife of the rain forest is high in the trees and vines, close at hand in the lush underbrush, everywhere. And yet, is seldom seen. A flash of red and brilliant blue, as a wing tip cuts across a thin bright shaft of sunlight that has found a rare, clear passage through the trees - the rest is sound. The sound of the swift running stream that cuts a silvery green swath across the forest floor. And the gentle sounds , the startling sounds, the raucus, the surprising sounds of life in the tropical rain forest.
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Wildlife species Featured: Rufous-vented Chachalaca, Eared Dove, Buff-throated Woodcreeper, Red-crowned Woodpecker, Barred Antshrike, Bananaquit, Red-billed Tropicbird, Toad, Tree Frog, Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Coca Thrush, Orange-winged Parrot, Crested Oropendola, Great Kiskadee, Rufous-breasted Wren, Bearded Bellbird, Violaceous Trogon, White-tipped Dove, Streaked Flycatcher, Black-faced Antthrush, Southern House Wren. And many other species in the background. Rating: 4.3
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Tracklist

Tradewind Islands

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Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
CDG 010	Dan Gibson	Solitudes: Environmental Sound Experiences Volume Ten - Tradewind Islands (A Caribbean Adventure In Sound) ‎(CD, Album)	Solitudes	CDG 010	Canada	1985
1153202	Dan Gibson	Environmental Sound Experiences - Volume Ten - Tradewind Islands ‎(CD, Album)	Dureco	1153202	Benelux	1985
DG-85010	Dan Gibson	Environmental Sound Experiences - Volume Ten - Tradewind Islands ‎(LP, Album)	Solitudes	DG-85010	Canada	1985
5DG-85010	Dan Gibson	Solitudes: Environmental Sound Experiences Volume Ten: Tradewind Islands (A Caribbean Adventure In Sound) ‎(Cass, Album)	Solitudes	5DG-85010	Canada	1985
5DG-85010	Dan Gibson	Tradewind Islands: A Carribean Adventure In Sound ‎(Cass, Album)	Solitudes	5DG-85010	USA & Canada	1985

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