Show Notes
The original LP disc Death in Haiti: Funeral Brass Band & Sounds of Port-au-Prince (label Discrepant) presented a selection of 36 minutes from 15 hours of recordings of funerals, churches, wakes and Port au Prince ambiences. This new release 6 years later is a free addition to it, a new selection of recordings condensed into 43 minutes of brass bands, crying, masses, voices and field-recordings.
https://felixblume.bandcamp.com/album/death-in-haiti-bonus-disc
The release is offered for free, any possible earned money through BandCamp will get directly to the youngest musician of the bands, living in Port au Prince in difficult conditions.
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A seven antennae, one environment, seven frequency sonic art emission piece from Azillanet.
Dusk recording in the Trésor Nature Reserve, French Guiana. Recorded near a forest pond, close to the roadside, with a light breeze in the trees, frogs and crickets, and a distant tinamou.
Crayfish sound recorded underwater. Species: Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus), originally from North America, recorded in Lake Geneva (Lac Léman), Switzerland.
Azillanet, France. When cicadas's sleep after a day or relentless shaking, a portal to a new form of listening is revealed. In their collective dreaming, the sounds of the village re-emerge transformed, as a sonic tapestry that bears witness to the deeply oneiric nature of the real.
Une traversée sonore d’Azillanet (Sud de la France) et de ses alentours, composée à partir de sons de terrain enregistrés pendant le stage de prise de son autour du paysage sonore mené par Félix Blume en juillet 2026.