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Mountains and Waters

by Banks Bailey

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Dave Aftandilian It’s so lovely—and sadly so rare—to hear these haunting voices of natural places and their inhabitants speaking for themselves without being drowned out by human-caused noise. This almost sounds like a soundscape from an alien world, which of course it shouldn’t. Mystery dwells here, and wonder, overlaid with a nagging sense of guilt for eavesdropping on pristine soundscapes that we have done our worst to try to pollute.
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drone2805 Certified 100% original and unique. Made with the best sound ingredients. To listen every day without any moderation. Promotes calm, detachment from everyday concerns. Produces in the brain a deep feeling of fullness, strength and the impression of occupying a vast space. Another great Unfathomless product, concocted this time by Banks Bailey.
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“Mountains and Waters” is an elegy to the Holocene epoch and to the quiet places that have been lost. The Holocene reaches back some 11,700 years when the last of the glacial cycles began to fade and the planet began to warm again. Since that time as we know, humans have dominated the landscape leaving very few places unchanged in some aspect. There is still debate as to when the Anthropocene began among the scientific community and no official epoch has been established. The recordings are from locations where a backpack and several days at least were needed in order to reach most of them. Of course no place is free of anthropogenic sound with air traffic what it is today but these places have retained their habitat to a certain degree due to setting aside these lands from future development. I hope we can continue to preserve these quiet places as the Anthropocene moves through these unsettled waters.

(Banks Bailey, 10 July 2018)

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released June 28, 2019

LOCATIONS : Crater Lake National Park and Three Sisters Wilderness Area in Oregon, Arches National Park in Utah, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska, Sagurao National Park and the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona.

Sounds captured between 2014 and 2017.

Cover design & treatments by Daniel Crokaert.
Based exclusively on photos by Banks Bailey.
Portrait by Banks Bailey.

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