Brokenhearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia

1. Morning Fanfare

2. Particle Swarm Intelligence

3. Brood X

4. Dusk Singers

Brokenhearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia,Various Artists,Sublime Frequencies,Field Recordings,Int'l & World Music,Pop,V/A Compilations

Average customer rating: Very hard to listen to amazing sounds...

Brokenhearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia Various Artists Manufacturer: Sublime Frequencies ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit Kingdom Lyric DVD Magazine Radio Phnom Penh Molam: Thai Country Groove from Isan Cambodian Rocks Volume 1 ASIN: B0002IQLAI Release Date: 2004-07-13

Tracks:

1. Morning Fanfare
2. Particle Swarm Intelligence
3. Brood X
4. Dusk Singers

Customer Reviews:

Very hard to listen to.......2006-04-18

In general, I'm a big fan of insect noises (cicadas, crickets, etc.), and I've discovered that it's really hard to find good field recordings. So I was pretty excited about this CD, even though I'd never heard any of it; I was sure I'd love it. However... it doesn't sound at all like I expected. There is no soothing drone, no happy chirp, no peaceful hum. These insects make some impressive and intense sounds, but it's not something I enjoy hearing. At best, it sounds sort of like an AM radio that's not tuned to anything, but more often it just sounds like high, piercing shrieks of feedback. Genuinely painful, even when listened to at a reasonably quiet volume.

amazing sounds..........2005-01-06

This recording is astonishing -- it sounds for all the world at places like jet engines warming up. The intensity of the audio generated by these insects is powerful -- but I found it to be almost trance-inducing. The subtitle 'insect electronica from Southeast Asia' might cause some listeners to believe that the recorded sounds have been altered in the studio in some way -- but the notes state that they have not. The sounds were recorded in Laos, Burma and Thailand, then brought back to the US to be assembled -- nothing further was done to them.

My only complaint about this disc is that it's not long enough (it times out at just under 40 minutes) -- but I guess that's what the 'repeat' button is for, right?

This is a great find -- I've been pleased to discover that it fits with just about anything I'm doing.

For the curious, there are some examples out there of insect sounds being incorporated into musical compositions. Alio Die does it seamlessly on quite a few of his works -- and Graeme Ravell (of SPK, now having made quite a name for himself doing film soundtracks) has an incredible recording (a bit hard to find, but well worth it) entitled THE INSECT MUSICIANS, in which he uses insect sounds as a base for his compositions.

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