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Outside the Circle of Fire
Chris Watson
Outside the Circle of Fire
Genres: New Age, Pop, Rock
 
Chris Watson's second CD is a dramatic contrast to the spacious atmospheres of Stepping into the Dark (Touch 27, 1996). Featuring 22 close-up recordings of animals, birds and insect life, Outside the Circle of Fire enlarge...  more »

     
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All Artists: Chris Watson
Title: Outside the Circle of Fire
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Touch UK
Release Date: 1/1/2004
Genres: New Age, Pop, Rock
Style: Meditation
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 502780314372

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Chris Watson's second CD is a dramatic contrast to the spacious atmospheres of Stepping into the Dark (Touch 27, 1996). Featuring 22 close-up recordings of animals, birds and insect life, Outside the Circle of Fire enlarges our awareness of the sound universe, intimate with voices from the past. There is an intensity here that television pictures cannot conjure. These are the sounds of secret languages, particular events that have been recorded as close up as possible to try and reveal something of their individual beauty, rhythm, eloquence and sheer power. Several of the sounds would be inaudible or radically degraded more than a few meters from the animal. Yet others collectively use the acoustics of their habitat to modulate the message. They exist, however, whether we hear them or not -- close up details of signals that are beyond our reach outside the circle of fire.
 

CD Reviews

The antithesis of his Industrial roots
A. F. Mell | Edinburgh, UK | 07/02/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Chris Watson, former member of Cabaret Voltaire and sometime member of The Hafler Trio left the 'music scene' and reappeared years later with a full-time job doing location recording for wildlife and nature programmes on TV for the BBC in the UK.



This release is also location recordings, closely miked animals such as cheetahs, monkeys and whales. Just look at the track listing and you know what is recorded, but somehow Chris also manages to pull out the unexpected - it's not every day you get to hear these animals from so close. These are superbly detailed recordings, you can feel the breathing of the cheetah.



Buy this for the superb recordings, don't but this is you want another CD of whalesong - this is the real thing!"