Environements 6: Dawn in the Okefenokee Swamp

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	1.	Dawn in the Okefenokee Swamp 39:33		buy track
	2.	Dusk in the Okefenokee Swamp 46:21		buy track

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Environments 6 contains two recordings tracked ten hours apart in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, a remote 438,000-acre wetland. Irv Teibel often called “Dusk” his favorite recording from the series. The area where he captured these soundscapes is accessible only by airboat. Teibel took his dog on the expedition and later said that they were almost eaten by an alligator.

From the liner notes: “Once night fell, the area become totally inaccessible (or inescapable, as the case may be). The alligators occasionally heard in the front channels were approximately twenty to fifty feet from the microphones.” Teibel claimed that this recording was included on NASA’s famous Voyager “Golden Record.” After speaking with the album’s producers Ann Druyan and Tim Ferris, it seems more likely that the recording was in the running but didn't make the final cut of the “Sounds of Earth” collage.

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released January 3, 1974

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Environments Chicago, Illinois

Environments is a historic catalog of long form field recordings created for the way you live. Whether you need to work, meditate, sleep, or any other use, Environments is the only ambient sound app based on extended recordings created in the 1960s and ’70s on analog tape. Environments began as an unprecedented series of vinyl records, garnering widespread acclaim and selling millions of units. ... more

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