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In this ARIA chart-topping recording of pure frog calls you can hear 43 of our most threatened species. The title track celebrates the incredible diversity of the Australian soundscape, and highlights what we stand to lose without taking action. Be immersed in a chorus of croaks singing in all corners of the country, from the mountain streams of Far North Queensland, to the caves of the Kimberley and the last remaining wetlands of our urban centres.
A collaboration between the Australian Museum FrogID project, The Bowerbird Collective, Listening Earth and Mervyn Street of Mangkaja Arts, this project, being promoted as part of FrogID Week, shows that Australians will not allow these precious voices to be silenced.
Highlighting the dedication of citizen scientists all over Australia, the majority of recordings on this album are high-quality public recordings of threatened frog species submitted to the national FrogID project. These sounds are complemented by recordings of Critically Endangered frogs contributed by some of our country's leading scientists. The album concludes with the moving calls of several species we have already lost to extinction, as well as a selection of exquisite, meditative, amphibian soundscapes captured by master nature recordist, Andrew Skeoch of Listening Earth.
Senior Gooniyandi artist Mervyn Street from Mangkaja Arts in Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia, produced dozens of paintings for this animation by Ngunnawal woman Jodie Austin, which beautifully depicts some of our most iconic threatened species in their natural habitat.
You can still buy the album! We made it to No.3 on the international ARIA charts on December 9th (and No.1 on the Australian albums chart), but you can help the frogs hop back up the charts! Funds raised support the Australian Museum FrogID project. Visit songsofdisappe...
Animation Credits
Artwork | Mervyn Street, Mangkaja Arts
Direction, Animation, Editing | Jodie Austin
Concept | The Bowerbird Collective
Production Assistant | Natalie Davey
Album Credits
Nature Recordings | Australian Museum, Andrew Skeoch & Collaborators
'Songs of Disappearance' Arrangement | Simone Slattery
Album Production, Editing, PR | Anthony Albrecht
Album Design & Concept | The Bowerbird Collective
Scientific Advisor | Dr. Jodi Rowley
FrogID Coordinator | Nadiah Roslan
Special Thanks
Nadiah Roslan
Andrew Skeoch
Liam Kennedy
Natalie Davey
Stephen Green
Mark Bolton
Maggie Slattery
@bowerbird.collective
8 сен 2024
