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Favoriting February 11, 2016: Superb Lyrebird, Urban Bowerbird: Australo-Jazz, Nature Documentary, Ornithology

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
Harold Pollock  1. Superb Lyrebird as you will hear him calling in the deep forest   Favoriting Menura — The Lyrebird    1967     
Harold Pollock  10. Quillip-quillip, pluggerah-pluggerah, and whirring calls of the Superb Lyrebird; 11. Female Superb Lyrebird feeding her chick; 12. Female Superb Lyrebird   Favoriting Menura        0:03:53 (Pop-up)
Harold Pollock  Male Superb Lyrebird mimicry (1. A group of Kookaburras; 2. The Eastern Whipbird; 3. Grey Thrush; 4. Golden Whistler; 5. Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo; 6. Pilot-Bird; 7. Grey Butcher-Bird; 8.   Favoriting Menura — The Lyrebird        0:05:59 (Pop-up)
Harold Pollock  13. Female Superb Lyrebird imitating a dog's bark; 14. Albert Lyrebird imitating the Satin Bower-Bird; Green Catbird; 16. Now, see how many of the Superb Lyrebird's Imitations you can recognize   Favoriting Menura — The Lyrebird        0:07:43 (Pop-up)
John Sangster  First Light   Favoriting Australia and All That Jazz    1971    0:10:11 (Pop-up)
John Sangster  Sunrise   Favoriting Australia and All That Jazz        0:12:37 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Don Burrows 
Blues Crossover   Favoriting
The Tasman Connection 
 
 
followed by "Long White Cloud" 
0:15:43 (Pop-up)
Peter Bruce  The Superb Lyrebird side 2   Favoriting The Superb Lyrebird: Australia's Forest Singer    196?    0:23:32 (Pop-up)
John Sangster  The Birds   Favoriting Australia and All That Jazz    1971    0:24:24 (Pop-up)
John Sangster  Procession of Tadpoles   Favoriting Australia and All That Jazz        0:29:45 (Pop-up)
John Sangster  Man the Destroyer   Favoriting Australia and All That Jazz        0:32:10 (Pop-up)
John Sangster  Desert Ritual   Favoriting Activity/Travel/Dramatic  Standard Music Library  1974    0:35:25 (Pop-up)
John Sangster  Hashish   Favoriting Ahead Of Hair    1969    0:36:58 (Pop-up)
Harold Pollock  Bird And Animal Calls Of Australia side 2   Favoriting Bird And Animal Calls Of Australia    1968    0:38:41 (Pop-up)
John Sangster  Black Water Blues   Favoriting Peaceful  Rain-Forest   1980    0:40:57 (Pop-up)
John Sangster  Rain-Forest Rag   Favoriting Peaceful        0:45:14 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
John Sangster 
Drifting   Favoriting
Peaceful 
 
 
 
0:49:48 (Pop-up)
  This Rugged Coast Theme   This Rugged Coast        0:58:49 (Pop-up)
  The Coral Labyrinth   This Rugged Coast        0:59:22 (Pop-up)
  Look Out Ben, You're Getting Too Close!   This Rugged Coast        0:59:44 (Pop-up)
  Mystery Island   This Rugged Coast        1:00:29 (Pop-up)
  A Quaint Item   This Rugged Coast        1:01:09 (Pop-up)
  The Water Is Clear   This Rugged Coast        1:02:28 (Pop-up)
  Curiously Fascinated   This Rugged Coast        1:04:43 (Pop-up)
  It's Eeery Down Here At Night   This Rugged Coast        1:06:05 (Pop-up)
Howard J. Davidson  Truk Lagoon   Favoriting Discoveries Underwater    1988  soundtrack to documentary series on underwater archaeology  1:11:18 (Pop-up)
Howard J. Davidson  (As a mark of respect) No One Shall Enter The Ship   Favoriting Discoveries Underwater        1:16:33 (Pop-up)
Pat Aulton  Barrier Reef   Favoriting Activity/Travel/Dramatic  Standard Music Library  1974    1:22:25 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Gould League of New South Wales 
 
The Birds Around Us 
 
197? 
 
1:25:16 (Pop-up)
Peter Bruce  The Australian Kookaburra   Favoriting The Australian Kookaburra (And Other Bush Birds)        1:30:39 (Pop-up)
Bronzewing  The Art Of Birdwatching   Favoriting Aurora Australis    2015  Bronzewing is Rohan Long, of Urban Bowerbird: https://bronzewing.bandcamp.com/  1:33:46 (Pop-up)
Bronzewing  Amphibia   Favoriting Aurora Australis        1:39:39 (Pop-up)
Andrew Richardson  Tiddalik - The Frog   Favoriting Expanse    1984    1:42:54 (Pop-up)
Andrew Richardson  Birds   Favoriting Rainforest    1985    1:46:32 (Pop-up)
Andrew Richardson  Filtered Light   Favoriting Rainforest        1:48:01 (Pop-up)
Steve Maxwell Von Braund  Crystal Forest   Favoriting Monster Planet  Clear Light Of Jupiter  1975    1:49:04 (Pop-up)
Andrew Richardson  Shady Rill   Favoriting Rainforest    1985    1:56:55 (Pop-up)
Andrew Richardson  Inua's Ladder   Favoriting Expanse    1984    1:59:55 (Pop-up)
Peter Bruce  The Superb Lyrebird side 1   Favoriting The Superb Lyrebird: Australia's Forest Singer        2:02:59 (Pop-up)
Rob Thomsett  Yaraandaroo side 2   Favoriting Yaraandaroo    1975  Yaraandaroo side 2 comprises these parts: Yowi-The Spirit of Death; Flight of Yaraan; Endless Search; Entrance to Warambool; Tears of Blood-Endless Weeping  2:05:59 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Steve Maxwell Von Braund 
Shadowfax   Favoriting
Monster Planet 
 
 
 
2:11:20 (Pop-up)
Rob Thomsett  Yaraandaroo side 2   Favoriting Yaraandaroo        2:20:46 (Pop-up)
Peter Bruce  Other Bush Birds   Favoriting The Australian Kookaburra (And Other Bush Birds)        2:21:56 (Pop-up)
Sven Libaek  Lonely Australian Landscape   Favoriting Bush Theme 7"    1966?    2:25:16 (Pop-up)
Sven Libaek  White Desolation   Favoriting The Music of Sven Libaek    1967    2:27:37 (Pop-up)
Sven Libaek  Gold Coast Fanfare   Favoriting The Music of Sven Libaek        2:36:13 (Pop-up)
Sven Libaek  Northern Territory   Favoriting The Music of Sven Libaek        2:36:30 (Pop-up)
Andy Sundstrom  Northern Territory   Favoriting Northern Territory/Theme From Black Orpheus 7"    1963  produced and written by Sven Libaek  2:37:18 (Pop-up)
Andy Sundstrom  Theme From Black Orpheus   Favoriting Northern Territory/Theme From Black Orpheus 7"    1963  produced by Sven Libaek  2:38:25 (Pop-up)
Bryce Rohde  Para Ti   Favoriting Para Ti/Warmer 7"    1963  produced by Sven Libaek  2:41:20 (Pop-up)
Col Nolan Quartet  Dry Country   Favoriting Love in Spring/ Dry Country 7"    1977  with Don Burrows  2:43:12 (Pop-up)
Don Burrows  Rain on Water   Favoriting Jazz Sound of the Don Burrows Quartet    1966    2:46:21 (Pop-up)
John Sangster  Smaug's Lair   Favoriting The Hobbit Suite    1973    2:49:46 (Pop-up)
John Sangster  Lament for Thorin   Favoriting The Hobbit Suite        2:52:50 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Bronzewing 
Altitudinal Migrants   Favoriting
Aurora Australis 
 
 
 
2:56:09 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:54pm
Flash Strap:

Good evening explorers and bird watchers

Good morning my brothers and sisters on the other side of the earth
Avatar 6:59pm
ndbob:

Evening Evan and everyone!
Avatar 6:59pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Bob!
Avatar 7:00pm
ndbob:

any bird imitator records tonight?
Avatar 7:01pm
Flash Strap:

only the real mccoy tonight!
Avatar 7:02pm
ndbob:

ah - I used to have lots of bird records - a few frog ones too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
melinda:

tweet tweet
Avatar 7:03pm
ndbob:

evening Melinda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
melinda:

hi Bob!
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Melinda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
melinda:

Hi Flash! Are we going to hear Sven Libaek tonight?
Avatar 7:04pm
Ham:

i've always needed to polish up on my bird calling.
Avatar 7:05pm
ndbob:

One of the best LP covers I had was a photo of a researcher holding up a mic to a bullfrog in a pond at night
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

Not a whole lot, but some. Very soon, I'll do a big Libaek show. Early spring, I guess
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Hi Ham!
  7:06pm
David:

Incredible sounds.. whip bird
sounds like a chickadee gone
mad
Avatar 7:06pm
ndbob:

Hello Ham!
Avatar 7:06pm
Ham:

hello!
Avatar 7:08pm
Flash Strap:

I really, really love the way this guy talks
Avatar 7:08pm
Flash Strap:

Hi David!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Doug Schulkind:

Bird lives!
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

Doug Doug!
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

Are we all ready to explore this strange land, this New South Wales in the South Seas?
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

for Sven Libaek fans, Sangster is a pretty crucial part of Sven's usual lineup
Avatar 7:13pm
Ham:

when i was a kid there was a man we called the birdman. his yard was all overgrown with a bird sanctuary sign out front. no birds, though, just a tape player that played bird sounds.
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

I wanna meet that birdman
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
melinda:

I'm on board for the exploration. Beautiful stuff.
  7:17pm
Ed:

Greetings!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
melinda:

I love the idea of a front yard fake bird sanctuary.
Avatar 7:21pm
ndbob:

Indeed Melinda!
Avatar 7:24pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Ed!
Avatar 7:24pm
ndbob:

Heya Ed!
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

@melinda: me too!

@Ham: do I know you from somewhere? That story is tremendously familiar
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Doug Schulkind:

Very much nice this.
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

Burrows' flute is really top-notch on this record
Avatar 7:28pm
Flash Strap:

I was actually just pleased to no end to see that I was the first to enter this album's name into the playlist system
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
Ike:

Greetings, hep cats!
Avatar 7:30pm
Flash Strap:

The blog that mainly inspired this show, Urban Bowerbird, can and should be found here: urbanbower.blogspot.com
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

Though this particular LP first surfaced at Never Enough Rhodes
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

and hi ike!
Avatar 7:34pm
ndbob:

Thanks for the link Evan!
Avatar 7:42pm
Flash Strap:

Jesus these noises
Avatar 7:43pm
Ham:

Flash, i don't believe so. this was in the suburbs of athens, ga. ..i never saw any birds or the birdman out of all the times i passed by his house. sometimes i wonder about him. there was also the tale of the chicken lady, but i'll save that for another night.
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

save it for chicken music night, when I play 3 hours of Funky Chicken reversed and slowed down
Avatar 7:47pm
Flash Strap:

I love this track
Avatar 7:48pm
Ham:

chicken skin music.
Avatar 7:57pm
ndbob:

excellent first hour tonight Evan - catch the rest on the archive as usual
Avatar 7:57pm
hyde:

this show needs more songs played by skippy, the bush kangaroo
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
melinda:

bye Bob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Doug Schulkind:

Oy gevalt. Here we go with the snakes.
Avatar 8:00pm
Flash Strap:

Bye bye Bobby!
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

Now we have peaceful fish, doug. no worries
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

@Hyde: if only I could find more 'roo music
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

this is a great library bit
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Uncle Michael:

Greetings, explorers.
Avatar 8:06pm
hyde:

plankton is, in fact, a pain
Avatar 8:06pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Uncle! And belated hi to Hyde, who has spoken only truths thus far
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Largest snake in North America. Eats rattlers. Blue. :
www.facebook.com...
Avatar 8:07pm
Flash Strap:

Evenin' rabbit
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Doug Schulkind:

Spiders are next, I tell ya. In Australia, spiders are always next.
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

they are hard to get on tape though
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

Hal's crazy man
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Love how narrative is matched to sound here. Because why state the obvious when you can state the obvious. Obviously.
Avatar 8:13pm
Flash Strap:

Anybody get a clear Zissou vibe from that Rugged Coast stuff?
Avatar 8:14pm
Flash Strap:

synth and sax: yes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
melinda:

Oddly, I didn't think of Zissou when listening to the Rugged Coast. Loved it though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
melinda:

The Life Aquatic soundtrack is where I learned of Sven Libaek and don't know much of his work beyond Inner Space.
Avatar 8:19pm
Flash Strap:

Oh boy, melinda, then I can't wait to do a sven show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
melinda:

That's why I'm excited for the Sven Special!
Avatar 8:20pm
Flash Strap:

Inner Space is top notch, hard to beat really, but there's a lot of other really great stuff from Sven.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
melinda:

I've heard a few from Nature Walkabout, which I liked very much.
Avatar 8:23pm
Flash Strap:

that's a big favorite of mine as well, along with Rode a White Horse, which has a very similar sound. and then from around the same time, there's Solar Flares which has more synths and is really great
Avatar 8:29pm
hyde:

all i can say about the library cues is that i thought "wow, that sounds really familiar" when i heard that stuff while i washed the dishes
Avatar 8:30pm
hyde:

the kookabura. merry, merry king of the bush is he.
Avatar 8:31pm
Flash Strap:

*RIDE a White Horse
Avatar 8:35pm
Flash Strap:

@Hyde, I felt the same way, but that's all I got
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
melinda:

BTW congrats on being officially 3 hours. 8:35 and we've only just passed the halfway mark!
Avatar 8:37pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks Melinda! It's a new age!

And I have LOTS of weird stuff planned for the rest of the night
Avatar 8:38pm
Flash Strap:

I like this stuff, which is nice. it's nice to like something sometimes

bronzewing.bandcamp.com
Avatar 8:40pm
hyde:

@melinda heh. i was sad that i was an hour late tonight, and then i remembered the expansion.
Avatar 8:41pm
Flash Strap:

There's room for all in this big tent of time!
Avatar 8:44pm
Flash Strap:

This whole record is great, by the way, and the links live on: urbanbower.blogspot.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Doug Schulkind:

There is a headline currently atop the New York Times website that has me delighted: "Cosmic Chirp From Black Holes Colliding Vindicates Einstein"

Isn't that a Sun Ra title? "Cosmic Chirp from Black Holes Colliding"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...sounds kinda Dukes of Stratosphear to me - but I'm ready for someone to make the case for SunRa being the prime ProtoPsychedelic Artist awlready in detail...
Avatar 8:52pm
northguineahills:

busy, but saying a hellosers!
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

That's found-poetry, Doug, and you are the author
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
melinda:

I'll have to check out the rest of Aurora Australis after the show.
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

Helloseryerself, NGH
  8:54pm
Wilbo:

Terrific show. Been listening on the outdoor speakers while getting my garden into shape for spring. If only those damn birds wouldn't be attracted by their recorded friends and feast on the new grass seed!
Avatar 8:54pm
hyde:

i would like to go to this monster planet
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Doug Schulkind:

When I find poetry, I leave it right where it is. Number One rule of hiking in the wilderness:

Take only photographs, leave only footprints
Avatar 8:55pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Wilbo! Sorry to lure the birds!
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

@Hyde: that whole record is cool. The guy is one half of Cubotron, the Australian synth duo. Weird stuff from them all round
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

*Cybotron
Avatar 9:07pm
hyde:

yeah, i have a bunch of Cybotron stuff, but not that
Avatar 9:09pm
Flash Strap:

I've not listened to the Cybotron stuff much, to be honest. Have some homework to do on that front
Avatar 9:16pm
hyde:

to be honest, i can't tell my rain forest birds from my dry temperate birds either
Avatar 9:23pm
hyde:

ok, the song of the magpie is super cool
Avatar 9:23pm
Flash Strap:

me either Hyde. It actually blows my mind when people can do that.
Avatar 9:25pm
Flash Strap:

FINALLY some Libaek. God he sounds good. No one sounds this good!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
melinda:

Nature jazz!
Avatar 9:27pm
northguineahills:

Loving this!
Avatar 9:27pm
hyde:

i know enough to identify most of the common birds of the northeastern usa (especially the house wren who built its nest right outside my door last summer and delighted in singing every single damn dawn) but that's about it.
Avatar 9:28pm
Flash Strap:

GREAT great rare Libaek stuff over at Urban Bowerbird (and only there!). Link is to all Libaek posts: urbanbower.blogspot.com...
Avatar 9:29pm
Flash Strap:

and of course Sangster and Burrows are on these tracks as well
Avatar 9:29pm
hyde:

@Flash oh wow, I bought Inner Space years ago and I think I snapped up everything that you posted, but this is aces.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
melinda:

Thanks for the link.
Avatar 9:31pm
Flash Strap:

yeah, it really filled some gaps for me, especially this particular LP which is rarer than anything. Those singles are delicious though. We'll hear some of that tonight, though I do confess I'm saving a lot of my favorite stuff for that promised libaek showstravaganza
Avatar 9:31pm
northguineahills:

I'm still backtracked from my FMU record links, I'll never keep up!
Avatar 9:33pm
Flash Strap:

while you're over there grabbing UB's treasures, don't forget to drop him a word of thanks. He deserves it! This stuff is invaluable
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
melinda:

This must be the balalaika mentioned in the UB post (I sort of skimmed it)
Avatar 9:38pm
Flash Strap:

indeed it is
Avatar 9:42pm
hyde:

@Flash will do
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Flash Strap:

man, this track is realllllly cool... I only just stumbled upon it last night. As my SO pointed out, it has a resemblance to a certain Betty Davis track
Avatar 9:50pm
Flash Strap:

Comin up on the end here, want to end with strong stuff... the last track of this set is one of my favorites of the night
Avatar 9:51pm
hyde:

i am not down with tolkien, but i am down with this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
melinda:

not down with tolkien....hahah
Avatar 9:52pm
northguineahills:

Hobbit Suite, is this the real title!!!
Avatar 9:53pm
Flash Strap:

yeah, i'm sideways on tolkein, neither fully up or down, but there's some great tolkein tunes out there. like Bo Hansson
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
melinda:

This seems less hobbity than the previous one, rather urban. But I like it.
Avatar 10:00pm
northguineahills:

Thanks Flash!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00pm
melinda:

Thanks for the music! Nite.
Avatar 10:00pm
Flash Strap:

Night all! Thanks for tuning in
Avatar 10:01pm
hyde:

thanks for the cool show and reminder to grab stuff from UB that i had missed. g'day. all.
Avatar 10:01pm
Flash Strap:

g'night
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Doug Schulkind:

Your show makes my heart swell, Flash Strap. The good kind of swell.
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