Russell Haswell "Wild Tracks" CD eMEGO 099 2009
"A Horde Of Flies Feast On A Rotting Pheasant Carcass (Extract)" (track 06)
Miniature omnidirectional microphone direct to Sound Devices. Recorded in Suf-folk 2008. ...this is a short extract of a recording previously released on Russell Haswell: "Recorded white it actually happaned", C60 limited edition cassette (Tochnit Aleph). Vice Magazine gave it 10 out of 10 and had this to say about it: "Like Bear Grylls with a really expensive microphone, Russell Haswell goes back to nature on this recording of events that took place deep in the Suffolk countryside during 2007 and 2008. For 30 minutes, "A horde of flies feast on a rotting pheasant carcass" documents in remarkable detail the devouring of a dead bird by numerous flies (if anyone from the RSPB is reading, Haswell did not kill the bird - it was already dead when he found it.) As the insects tuck in and zip off, this cacophony of buzzing ebbs and flows, and the macabre mood is brightened by sporadic birdsong." (Suburban Dwight. VICE Magazine Vol. 7 # 4).
Russell Haswell returns with a complete departure from his real-time computer generated improvisations ('Live Salvage' & 'Second Live Salvage'). WILD TRACKS is a collection of 'deliberate recordings' made with other multi media / film projects in mind. These recordings do not contain any overdubs or compression, and document a wide variety of audio experiences. Taking you to a blowhole in Jamaica, inside an ant colony and to the entrance of wasp nest in Suffolk, on a helicopter ride in St. Lucia, two waterfalls in County Durham, as well as the sound of freshly fallen snow, flies being electrocuted and contributions from various military tactical airlift planes, air defence fighters and attack helicopters. The recordings on WILD TRACKS were realised using a variety of techniques including using hydrophones to record falling snow, recording gamekeepers many fields away with a parabolic dish, as well as binaural, 'near-field' & 'direct'.
At Editions Mego, we understand this to be the first commercially released audio CD to be packaged in a KIDZBOX™ containing a full colour A2 poster with photographs and detailed recording notes.
Unlike any other release this season!
Recorded in Suffolk, Co. Durham, St. Lucia & Jamaica 2007-2009.
Edited, compiled and mastered @ Haswell Studio, Suffolk
WARNING: Extreme Dynamic Levels. Listeners experience may change during playback!
"wild track: Sound recorded during production without picture."
(SOUND-ON FILM. VINCENT LoBRUTTO. Praeger, 1994. p.287)
