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Earth: Voices of a Planet

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Released
  
1990

Earth Voices Of A Planet (1990)
  
Solstice Live! (1993)

Release date
  
1990

Label
  
Living Music

Length
  
58:35

Artist
  
Paul Winter

Genre
  
Global fusion

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Producer
  
Russ Landau, Paul Winter

Similar
  
Paul Winter albums, Other albums

Appalachian morning


Earth: Voices of a Planet is an album released by Paul Winter in 1990. The album was a commissioned for the 20th anniversary of Earth Day, and was premiered in Times Square by the Paul Winter Consort and special guests. The album is a tribute to the Earth, and features at least one instrument or voice from every continent. The album also features animal calls woven into the music. In particular, recordings of elephant basso-rumbles are used. These sounds, created by elephants, are too low for the human ear to detect on its own, and their existence was unknown until shortly before the album was created.

Contents

The album was nominated for a Grammy award in 1991.

Track listing

  1. "Appalachian Morning" (Halley)
  2. "Cathedral Forest" (Halley)
  3. "Call Of The Elephant" (Dadey, Berliner, Halley, Winter)
  4. "Antarctica" (Halley, Winter)
  5. "Ocean Child" (Orca, Halley, Winter)
  6. "Uirapuru Do Amazonas" (De Mello, Thiago)
  7. "Talkabout" (Friesen, Winter, Landau, Turre)
  8. "Russian Girls" (Pokrovsky, Friesen, Halley, Winter, Landau)
  9. "Black Forest" (Winter)
  10. "Song Of The Exile" (De Mello, Thiago)
  11. "Under the Sun" (Velez, Clark, Halley, McCandless, Winter)
  12. "And The Earth Spins" (Halley)

Personnel

  • Paul Winter- soprano sax
  • Rhonda Larson- flute
  • Eugene Friesen- cello
  • Paul Halley- keyboards
  • Oscar Castro-Neves- guitar
  • Russ Landau- bass
  • Paul McCandless- oboe
  • Glen Velez- percussion
  • Ted Moore- percussion
  • Paul Wertico- drums
  • Kenny Mazur- steel-string guitar
  • Paul Berliner- percussion
  • Kwaku Dadey- Ghanaian drums
  • Thaigo De Mello- voice, guitar, percussion
  • Steve Turre- didjeridu
  • Guillerme Franco- percussion
  • The Dimitri Pokrovsky Singers
  • Songs

    1Appalachian Morning4:23
    2Cathedral Forest5:53
    3Call of the Elephant6:55

    References

    Earth: Voices of a Planet Wikipedia