Label: Kalerne

激激オススメ！！以前同レーベルからの"凍った湖の音響共鳴"作品[Chants Of Frozen Lakes]を紹介した環境音作家Marc Namblardと、恐らくその兄弟(?)Olivier Namblardの2者による、幼少の頃から馴れ親しんだというフランスの中央高地を形成する"セヴェンヌ山脈"の様々な音風景記録。カエルや昆虫の声、強烈な嵐、放牧された大量の羊が奏でる首の鐘の音、変な色付けも無く捉えたそのままの風景が続く70分、60分の2CD。このレーベルという事で体裁も素晴らしく、28ページのブックレット、3面開き紙ジャケ、外箱付きという仕様。

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Marc & Olivier Namblard, audio-naturalists and listening wanderers, examining from childhood this contrasted and elusive landscape, situated in the southeast of the Massif Central, called "Cévennes".
Patience, exploration and familiarity with the natural environment have enabled them to create a body of work of field recordings that are of the highest depth and quality. The best from amongst them have been assembled on these two disks, as an homage to the landscape of Cévennes and to the sounds of its fauna. Amongst the subjects presented here: singing insects of the Causses, vultures feeding, passerine songs, underground streams, barking stags, rumbling storms, amphibian choruses and sheep bells.

Two CDs and 28 page booklet with colour illustrations included.
Duration : 70 min (cd 1), 60 min (cd 2).

Published by Kalerne Editions and Atelier Hui-Kan, in Taiwan, Autumn 2013.
Recording, montage, mixing : Marc and Olivier Namblard
Production, mastering : Yannick Dauby
Photographies : Marc et Olivier Namblard, Martine Schnoering
Design : Atelier Hui-Kan
English translation : Patrick McGinley