Image: Nickel Creek (photo courtesy of Nonesuch Records)
Week 41 (#2003)
Nature often inspires scientists to create technologies that benefit humanity, with innovations known as “biomimicry”. In a similar vein, we feature music that takes a leaf out of nature’s book, turning to the natural world for inspiration and sometimes even echoing the sounds of nature.
The Crows of Killimer/Box Reel #2/Boys off Malin/The Opera House…by Solas from The Turning Tide (Compass)
Little Sparrow…by John Doyle from Shadow and Light (Compass)
Ode to a Butterfly…by Nickel Creek from Nickel Creek (Sugar Hill)
Pretty Bird…by Kathy Mattea from Pretty Bird (Captain Potato)
The Blackbird…by Silly Wizard form Live Again (Birnam CD)
The Blackbird…by The Bothy Band from The Best of the Bothy Band (Green Linnet)
T|he Owl Waltz…by Brian McNeill from The Busker and the Devil’s ONly Daughter (Temple)
The Marching Gibbon…by Rachel Hair Trio from Trì (March Hair)
The Last Trip Home…by Battlefield Band from Leaving Friday Harbour (Temple)
At the Races…by Nightnoise from At the End of the Evening )Windham Hill)
Remember the Geese…by Karine Polwart from A Pocket of Wind Resistance (Hudson)
Inner Sound…by The Whistlebinkies from Inner Sound (Klub)
The Lobster…by The Gloaming from The Gloaming 3 (Real World)