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Tomorrow (May 22nd) is International Biodiversity Day

Dominic Sedgwick — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:42:14 +0000

What you can do on International Biodiversity Day:Around the world - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/may/21/international-day-biological-diversity-eventsAt the Natural History Museum, London - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/iyb-day-uk-may10/index.htmlHave fun…

A message from tfp:Ecuador artist David McAlmont about “This Day”

Dominic Sedgwick — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:50:07 +0000

Good morning.I’m off to the House of Commons this afternoon to support the release of a Hepatitis C awareness-raising record This Day. With contributions from myself in collaboration with Jesper Mattsson as ‘Crash Atkins’, Bernard Butler, Melanie Laurent and Skye Edwards, it’s for an excellent cause and the album is now available from the usual […]

Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador master ready for collection at Abbey Road!

Dominic Sedgwick — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:18:31 +0000

Quick update - after some months of recording, selecting and editing vivid wildlife and birdsong soundscapes from Ecuador for the album which has delayed things a bit we were able to get the album off to Abbey Road last week and we pick up the master tomorrow. The 20 tracks on the album include […]

Dobet Gnahoré (Ivory Coast) re-records ‘Kokpa’ for her 3rd studio album

Dominic Sedgwick — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:06:24 +0000

Grammy Award winning singer Dobet Gnahoré’s third album “Djekpa la You“, released last month on CONTREJOUR (CJ024), features a beautiful new multi-instrument recording of the song Kokpa, which translates as Rainforest. It is about the forests of the region of Ivory Coast where Dobet grew up - forests some of which sadly no longer exist. […]

Congratulations to album contributor Dobet Gnahore on her Grammy!

Dominic Sedgwick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:22:45 +0000

Congratulations to album contributor Dobet Gnahore on her Grammy in Best Urban/Alternative Performance category! Dobet collaborated with India Arie to cover Sade’s song “Pearls” [Soulbird/Universal Republic], and India Arie accepted the award on behalf of the two collaborators thanking Dobet for her inspiration. Here’s what Dobet says on her myspace blog:”Originally a studio project, the […]

Clever monkey (shortlisting forest soundscapes for Forest Project: Ecuador)

Dominic Sedgwick — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:24:01 +0000

As we’ve mentioned there will be two or three forest interludes on the album creating track clusters, like the silence bisecting Robert Wyatt’s ‘Cuckooland’ but with more of an emphasis on continuity. Yesterday I met wildlife sound recordist John Paterson at his home studio - he was recording in Ecuador during December - to begin shortlisting soundscapes, […]

Our wildlife sound recordist arrives in Ecuador today…

Dominic Sedgwick — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:09:46 +0000

Today, on the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’, brilliant wildlife sound recordist John Paterson arrives in Ecuador on behalf of Ginkgo Music to begin making recordings for Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador.
There are many perfectly good recordings of individual birdsongs by ornithologists, but John belongs to a small […]

Abbey Road Studios to master Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador

Dominic Sedgwick — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:34:48 +0000

We are eternally grateful to Abbey Road Studios who have agreed to master Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador. It is an honour for us and for the project that the studio that made the Beatles’ albums and has such an incredible history will be handling the mastering for us. Onwards and upwards!

Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador to be mixed by Peter Junge

Dominic Sedgwick — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:48:23 +0000

Audio engineer Peter Junge will begin mixing the album next week. Peter was selected as the mixing engineer for the project after a number of auditioning engineers submitted mixes of David McAlmont’s song ‘Fog on the Mountain’

Vivienne Westwood lending a hand…

Paul Travers — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:28:01 +0000

Looks like Vivienne Westwood is going to help us out by dressing one of our artists for a magazine photoshoot. More later…