ACL 2013: Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape

In compiling these field recordings, some artists traveled to distant lands, while others stayed at home.  Some added instruments, others computer processing.  Some of these releases are in love with certain places, but each one is in love with sound.

Hear Cape Cod Volumes One & Two

Field recordings are often described as calming, unique, and valuable, but seldom as fun.  Hear Cape Cod is fun.  Steve Wilkes’ lovingly curated project takes the genre into the mainstream without a single whiff of compromise.  It’s the sort of souvenir that