Amazonia 6891: Sounds From Jungle, Natural Objects, Echo and Electronic Waves

by Pit Piccinelli / Fred Gales / Walter Maioli

Amazonia 6891: Sounds From Jungle, Natural Objects, Echo and Electronic Waves cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Sound Quest
  • Country: Italy
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Functioning as a highly immersive electroacoustic experiment, this collaborative project seeks to replicate the profound acoustic environment of the Amazon rainforest. The creators layer deeply meditative electronic waves alongside unprocessed environmental field recordings and primitive instrumentation to generate a lush, hypnotic jungle soundscape.

Genres

Descriptors: forest, atmospheric, rain, avant-garde, natural, experimental, electronic, ambient, conceptual, nature, birds, percussive

Tracklist

  1. Amazonia 6891 : Mixed Tape
  2. Monkey Skulls / Insect Rattle
  3. Cigala
  4. Woman In The Water
  5. Insects / Birds / Coconut Waterdrum & Voice / Shells & Seeds + Echo
  6. Uirapuru Bird
  7. Yanoama Voice / Electronics
  8. Stone / Eagle Bone / Electronics
  9. Cigala
  10. Palm Leaves
  11. Shells & Seeds / Plastic Tube / Electronics
  12. Voice
  13. Stones And Scraped Coconut + Echo
  14. SW Radio
  15. Indians
  16. Rivershells And Tuccan Beaks In Jungle Ambient
  17. Chronicle Of An Exhibition In Venezuela
  18. Shells, Electronic Elaboration
  19. Birds & Insects
  20. Electronics / Woods & Drums / Reed Perc. / Seeds & Reeds / Shell Whistle
  21. Wayapi Bird Imitations
  22. Birds
  23. Suriname/Clarinet, Cigala/Clarinet, Cigala Etc.
  24. Birds
  25. Giant Seed Ocarina
  26. Electronics / Cigala, Birds
  27. Kayapo Indians

Credits

  • Pit Piccinelli - primary artist, instruments, voice, performer, performer [shells]
  • Fred Gales - primary artist, electronics, electronics [electronic elaboration]
  • Walter Maioli - primary artist, performer [shells & seeds], flute [eagle bone], voice, performer [seeds], reeds, ocarina [giant seed ocarina]
  • Luce Maioli - percussion [coconut waterdrum], voice, performer [plastic tube], whistle [shelle whistle]
  • Michela Machiavelli - performer [stone], percussion [reed perc.]
  • Raffaele Serra - electronics
  • Peter Kolosimo - text by
  • Tim Zwemmer - performer [woods], drums

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