Re: Spring peepers...

[KRosser414 <KRosser414@aol.com>]

> One last question or two, does anybody here know of someone who has done
> something completely with birds, animals, samples environmental that was
> percussive as these birds were, and last has here anybody used bird calls
> and why?  Was it for a particualar mood, for example.

I made mention of this piece a while ago and it received absolutely NO
acknowledgement from anyone, so maybe it's not that cool a reference, but 
for
my taste one of the most stirring and haunting musical uses of looping I 
have
ever heard is on Joni Mitchell's "The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey", where 
her
free-form acoustic guitar is accompanied only by Don Alias on handrums and
old-fashioned tape loops of coyotes howling.  It's on the album "Mingus", 
for
me a lukewarm record in her otherwise excellent catalog, but it's worth the
price of admission for "Wolf" and some of the Joni/Jaco interplay 
throughout. 

 I believe "Wolf" may have been reissued on her recent "Misses" 
collection, so
there might be your chance to hear it in the company of some stronger Joni
material.

Ken R