Passerine: Watershed Variations

by Ben Livingston

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1.	Passerine 07:41	buy track
2.	Passerine: Watershed Loops I-V 15:37	buy track
3.	Passerine: On Mount Vision's western slope in September 10:15	buy track
4.	Spring Drone 04:07	buy track

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This is a collection of explorations into the song-realm of Passerine (the taxonomic order of birds who perch on branches, including songbirds). Mostly acoustic solo guitar; loops and drones and ragas, accompanied by the music's inspiration and namesake: field recordings of the avian soundscapes of the Inverness watershed.

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released March 5, 2021

Ben Livingston: Nylon string acoustic guitar, e-bowed electric guitar, field recordings

Swainson's thrush, Osprey, Wrentit, Bushtit, Amercican robin, Dark-eyed junco, Bewick's wren, Spotted towhee, Chestnut-backed chickadee, Purple finch, Brown creeper, Steller's jay, Scrub jay, Ruby-crowned kinglet, Anna's hummingbird, Pacific-slope flycatcher, California towhee, Wilson's warbler, Hutton's vireo, Black-headed grosbeak, American crow, Hairy woodpecker, Common raven, Warbling vireo, Pine siskin, Violet-green swallow, Orange-crowned warbler, Acorn woodpecker, Band-tailed pigeon, and a couple chipmunks. Can you hear anyone I missed?

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Ben Livingston Inverness, California

Ben Livingston makes landscape conversant bio-regional instrumental music in Coast Miwok territory. He is also a vegetable farmer and an editor/publisher of the Inverness Almanac and Mount Vision Press

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