ACL 2017 ~ Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape

While each of our categories travels around the world, only this one sounds like a passport book.  From the beaches to the mountains, Belgrade to Tibet, these artists unpack their listening devices and head into the wild.  Sometimes this means

Carlos Casas ~ Pyramid of Skulls

Ruffled by a distant paradise, Pyramid of Skulls is a one-off field recording experiment full of indigenous sounds. The traditions of the past resurface like an apparition merging into the daylight of today, but the music is also an important document, cataloguing with some anxiety a growing disappearance,