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	Group of Aka men and women	02:59
104	Vanuatu: Kaimata	Kuautoga	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 Çiçek	02:31
107	China: Liushui (Flowing Waters) - excerpt	Guan Pinghu	04:15
108	Bulgaria: Harvest Song	Female vocal group, village of Plana	03:14
109	Byelorussia: Harvest Song	Fayna Olesich, Watalya Andreykoviets, Heema Doroshevich, Tatiana Fedorova	01:03
110	Bahrain: Bahri (excerpt)	The men's choir from the Dar Jnah in Muharraq	03:47
111	Cameroon: The Water Drum (excerpt)	Baka children	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)	Two elderly women with adufe accompaniment	02:03
115	Benin: Musotie, Harvest Dance	Two flute players accompanied by castanets	03:12
116	Algeria: Song for the Insemination of the Date Palm	Man singing while working in garden, Algeria	02:02
117	Cameroon: Music for the Nganga Dance (excerpt)	Baka musicians and singers	02:57
118	France: Sur le pont d'Auron	Jean Blanchard	03:26
119	Japan: Aiolos (excerpt)	Sylvie Beltrando, Pierre-Yves Artaud	02:39