Whale Music Remixed

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Release Date: 2009

Label: Terra Nova

Comes in two-fold cardboard jacket.

Last year David Rothenberg released a recording called Whale Music, which explored the sonic richness of these great beasts’ music and language, live in the ocean and in the studio. Tape Op called it “beautiful and musical…” The Telegraph said it “pushed the barriers between human history and natural history. The Chronogram called it “a new genre of world music! The didgeridoo tonality of humpbacks or capoeira beats of sperm whales may hint at foreign sources from which our own species’ musical culture was invented.” All About Jazz New York gave the album its award for Best Cover of the Year 2008.
This year he sent copies of this record to some of the world’s finest electronic musicians, with hopes that they might do great things with such unusual material. The contributors come from the far corners of the Earth, making music of many kinds, all infused with the depth and wonder of the songs of whales.

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