Bringing the Sounds of Wilderness Within Reach

Frog Power

Grant Mackay

Beginning with a single frog this album gradually builds to a chorus of hundreds of frogs chanting and calling in the final title track, "Frog Power". Recorded over several seasons this diverse collection is captured from Canadian wilderness regions spanning nearly a thousand miles from North to South. Here, you can hear the "power" of the Frog. Buy CDr on Bandcamp

Puzzle Lake Paradise

Grant Mackay

This is a landscape of ridges, valleys and twisted shorelines includes a tremendous variety of habitats -- from extensive rock barrens, dry deciduous and mixed forests... To capture the beauty of the natural sounds on “Puzzle Lake Paradise”, field recordist Grant Mackay, made several early morning and evening trips into the park during the springtime of 2015. This album was recorded with the Zoom H6 Handy Recorder using the MS Microphone. which is specially designed to capture wide open spaces by combining a unidirectional mid mic for the center with a bidirectional side mic that captures sounds from the left and right.

 

The Wildlands (2021 reissue - a 25 copy limited-edition factory pressed and packaged CDr)

Grant Mackay

"The WILDLANDS" provides a rare glimpse into the mystery and raw beauty of some of Canada's untamed wilderness regions. Gathered from different wilderness tracts hundreds of miles apart, these recordings take you to the wildlands just beyond civilization and then even deeper into the untamed and undiscovered wild. Recorded in the two provinces of Ontario and Quebec, this album highlights three distinct wilderness regions: Kipawa in central Quebec, Hastings County in Eastern Ontario and Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park in South-Central Ontario.  Buy CDr on our ebay store

Lakeside Savannah

Grant Mackay

LAKESIDE SAVANNAH captures the day and nighttime bird and wildlife sounds of the different environments from the Point Petre Nature Preserve. This remote wilderness is located on the southernmost tip of the island of Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.

Hear the wave sounds from the limestone rock shores on its western reaches; to the midnight sounds of crickets, peeper frogs and aquatic birds of its interior blue heron rookery; to the sounds of kingfishers, terns and seagulls who inhabit the southern shores of its gull bar. This is  the debut album by field recordist, Grant Mackay recorded in 2005. It is a tour-de-force of wilderness audio realism!  Includes a colour fold-out insert. Buy CDr on our ebay store

The Forest Marsh

Grant Mackay

The location for this recording was discovered entirely by accident. While driving the “dangerous and unmaintained" roads of Northumberland County in my 4WD, I came upon a forest marsh deep in a hidden valley, among the rolling, pastoral, farmland hills. Not far from my country home in the village of Camborne, I was immediately struck by how such a wild place could be so close and yet be within our midst. Shortly after discovering this place I returned to record the sounds of birdsongs and bullfrogs of “The Forest Marsh” awakening at dawn. This real-time recording captures the closest experience to actually being there. Buy CDr on our ebay store

Point Petre

Grant Mackay

Located on the southernmost tip of the island of Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. This vast tract of land is home to over 337 species of aquatic and land birds and contains one of the largest great blue heron rookeries in Ontario. From its vast sea-like shoreline of the Great Lake Ontario with its limestone beaches and gull bar to its savannah-like plains containing original old growth trees and significant deer population, to its large lagoons and marshes the Point Petre Nature Preserve is wild, pristine and diverse. "POINT PETRE" captures the day and nighttime bird sounds of the different environments of this wilderness location. Featured birdsongs and bird sounds include: Canada geese, great blue herons, red wing blackbirds, kingfisher, seagulls, terns, woodpecker, morning doves, plus birdcalls from many other species of birds. 
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