Songs of Disappearance
Songs of Disappearance
Help our threatened species soar, hop and shriek their way into the ARIA charts!
https://songsofdisappearance.com/
Having sent birds soaring and frogs hopping to the top of the ARIA charts ahead of ABBA and Adele in 2021 and 2022, Songs of Disappearance is back with an album featuring some of our most threatened mammals. The title track celebrates the incredible diversity of the Australian soundscape, and highlights what we stand to lose without taking action. Be immersed in a chorus of shrieks, screams and bellowing from all corners of the country, from our ancient forests, dry deserts and remote Antarctic coastlines.
A collaboration between the Australian Conservation Foundation, The Bowerbird Collective and Wild Ambience, this project shows that Australians will not allow these precious voices to be silenced. The album cover and liner notes feature stunning artwork by children who entered the ACF’s Wild at Art competition.
Having sent birds soaring to No.2 on the ARIA charts ahead of ABBA and Adele in 2021, Songs of Disappearance returned in 2022 with an album featuring 43 of our most threatened frogs. The album debuted at No. 3 on the ARIA Top 50 Albums charts, and hopped to No. 1 on the Australian Album Charts! The title track celebrates the incredible diversity of the Australian soundscape, and highlights what we stand to lose without taking action. Be immersed in a chorus of croaks singing in all corners of the country, from the mountain streams of Far North Queensland, to the caves of the Kimberley and the last remaining wetlands of our urban centres.
A collaboration between the Australian Museum FrogID project, The Bowerbird Collective, Listening Earth and Mervyn Street of Mangkaja Arts, this project, promoted as part of FrogID Week 2022, shows that Australians will not allow these precious voices to be silenced.
Highlighting the dedication of citizen scientists all over Australia, the majority of recordings on this album are high-quality public recordings of threatened frog species submitted to the national FrogID project. These sounds are complemented by recordings of Critically Endangered frogs contributed by some of our country’s leading scientists. The album concludes with the moving calls of several species we have already lost to extinction, as well as a selection of exquisite, meditative, amphibian soundscapes captured by master nature recordist, Andrew Skeoch of Listening Earth.
On this ARIA chart-topping album of pure birdsong you can hear 53 of our most threatened species. The title track celebrates the incredible diversity of the Australian soundscape, and highlights what we stand to lose without taking action. Be immersed in a chorus of iconic cockatoos, the buzzing of bowerbirds, a bizarre symphony of seabirds, and the haunting call of one of the last remaining night parrots.
A collaboration between the acclaimed nature recordist David Stewart, Nature Sound, the Bowerbird Collective, BirdLife Australia, Charles Darwin University and Mervyn Street of Mangkaja Arts, this project, released alongside the 2020 Action Plan for Australian Birds, shows that Australians will not allow these precious avian voices to be silenced.
https://songsofdisappearance.com/