Symphony of Nature

This international collection presents songs from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and the Caribbean invoking and honoring the natural world. Musical interpretations of our earth range from poetic allusions to life in the Cuban countryside, to explicit descriptions of a Vanuatu coastline, to imitations of the wind on a Japanese flute. The recording also includes songs to accompany dancing, swimming, fishing, grain harvesting, picking flowers for lovers, and artificially inseminating the date palm tree. This album is part of the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music.

Track Listing

101	Cuba: Mi tierra es asi	Cucalambe Ensemble	03:58
102	Turkmenistan: Gümmür-gümmürlendi (Mountains are Trembling)	Pirdzhan Moshchyev, Mätzhan Annagulyev	04:45
103	Central African Republic: Bosobè (Song and Dance of a Diviner-Healer) - excerpt	n/a	02:59
104	Vanuatu: Kaimata	n/a	01:54
105	China: Huan lo ts'ao yuan (Happiness upon the Grassy Plain)	Tsui Wah-Nam	03:54
106	Turkey: Yucelerden Seyreyled Im Dostun Izini (From High above I Have Followed the Footprints of My Beloved)	Ali Ekber Cicek	02:31
107	China: Liushui (Flowing Waters) - excerpt	Guan Pinghu	04:15
108	Bulgaria: Harvest Song	n/a	03:14
109	Byelorussia: Harvest Song	Fayna Olesich, Watalya Andreykoviets, Heema Doroshevich, Tatiana Fedorova	01:03
110	Bahrain: Bahri (excerpt)	n/a	03:47
111	Cameroon: The Water Drum (excerpt)	n/a	01:31
112	Viet Nam: Phong xuy trich liêu (The Wind Blows and Bends the Weeping Willow)	Mong Trung, Trân Vân Khê	04:09
113	Mongolia: View over the Kherelen River	Batbayar	02:58
114	Portugal: Macelada (Picking Camomile)	n/a	02:03
115	Benin: Musotie, Harvest Dance	n/a	03:12
116	Algeria: Song for the Insemination of the Date Palm	n/a	02:02
117	Cameroon: Music for the Nganga Dance (excerpt)	n/a	02:57
118	France: Sur le pont d'Auron	Jean Blanchard	03:26
119	Japan: Aiolos (excerpt)	Sylvie Beltrando, Pierre-Yves Artaud	02:39