Bug Music

by David Rothenberg

Bug Music cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 2013
  • Label: Terra Nova
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:10:04
  • Community rating: 3.5/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Rothenberg improvises on clarinets and soprano saxophone alongside cicadas, crickets, katydids and water bugs, on a companion disc to his book of the same name. Three pieces were recorded live in the field with no overdubbing, and the guests include guitarist Robert J眉rjendal and Timothy Hill of the Harmonic Choir.

Genres

Descriptors: nature, experimental, avant-garde, improvisational, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Magicicada Unexpected Road (3:52)
  2. Katydid Prehistory (5:26)
  3. Insect Drummers I: Inside the Mosquito's Brain (4:10)
  4. What Makes Them Dance? (6:51)
  5. Treehop (4:58)
  6. Riddim Bugz (5:01)
  7. Phaaaroah! (4:45)
  8. Glynwood Nights (5:25)
  9. Insect Drummers 2: The Water Boatman's Loudest Penis (3:39)
  10. Listen Outside the Ear (2:28)
  11. Chriped to Death (4:01)
  12. Kikitara (2:04)
  13. Insect Drummers 3: Your Sound Can Kill (3:38)
  14. Final Creatures (5:18)
  15. Magicicada Warm Springs (4:23)
  16. The Year of Insect Thinking (3:58)

Credits

  • Umru Rothenberg - computer [ipad]
  • Timothy Hill - overtone voice [singing]
  • Charles Lindsay - sounds [cicada wrangler]

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