Throughout the packaging, and on four enclosed postcards, are beautiful black and white photographs taken by Rachael Jackson in the Olympic National Park in Washington state. While unified by a common theme, the tracks are quite varied including desert contact mic recordings of rain and wind on a tree (Jeph Jerman), processed sounds of a gate (Jonathan Coleclough), erhu played on a beach (Mike Shannon), mysterious singing 'water babies' [Agog], a mixture of wild celery stalks, tundra grass, a cord made from sinew, a whalebone roof support and the seals (Richard Lerman), and the straight recording of an approaching thunderstorm (Dave Knott). This attention to detail in audio is matched by the close-up photographs of fungi, dripping sap, and trees which surrounds it.
Selections:
1. Tree w/rain + Wind - Jeph Jerman
2. Calmahain - Mirror
3. Water Babies Singing in a Lily Pool Delight - Agog
4. The Card Game - Climax Golden Twins
5. Gate - Jonathan Coleclough
6. Alki - Mike Shannon
7. Supernature - Monos
8. From the Pribilof Islands - Richard Lerman
9. St. Mary's County, Maryland - Dave Knott