Washington 2011

The 2011 Washington Annual Rainbow Gathering was held in the Gifford Pinochet National Forest.

This year’s collection of field recordings includes 66 songs, poems, and outtakes recorded at the 2011 Washington rainbow gathering held in the Gifford Pinochet National Forest near the towns of Carson and Cougar. Most of the songs and poems were recorded in the Granola Funk, Popcorner, Poly-Glamorous & What Have You neighborhood. After sorting through the audio I came up with a  2 CD set with 33 tracks on each disc.  As always, Pass Freely, No Sale or Commercial Use.

It should be noted that many of the tracks on this year’s collection feature the ambient sounds of food prep, theater construction, trail walking wanders, underwater hydrophone recordings (Aquarian Audio H1a Hydrophone), dish buckets, contact mic on cutting board and heartbeats, campfire ruminations and, of course, the frogs in and around Skookum Meadows.

It has been an interest of mine for some time to include more of the often forgotten sounds of our daily chores, comings, and goings, and what have you. Recording at a gathering offers serendipitous and effervescent sound bites at almost any given moment and I was fortunate enough to discover some charming and bucolic snippets from the various camps, kitchens, trails, forests, and meadows.

From the vapors of our imagination to tomorrow’s memories, may this collection of mellifluous songs, poems, and outtakes delightfully entertain your ears like the way a homemade vanilla milkshake engages joy upon your taste buds. DING! DING! DING!

Oh, and, be well, take care, peace, over n out and what have you…

Click to play and if you want to download a song, right click and choose: “Save Link As…”

Download CD 1 (ZIP) + Download CD 2 (ZIP) and Download Extras 2009-2013 (ZIP)

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01 Circling Around Big Creek  2.1 MB
02 The Glorious Darlings -Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow Tree  5.9 MB
03 Sound Of Frogs In Skookum Meadows  1.4 MB
04 Sound Of Sawing N Hammering Take 1  1.6 MB
05 Peter Pippin – Achy Breaky Heart   3.4 MB
06 Preparing To Fry Some Taters  1.5 MB
07 Sound Of Fryin’ Taters  1.2 MB
08 Sound Of Trolling The Fire  1.9 MB
09 Freedom – Three Raccoons In The Snow  16.2 MB
10 Sound Of Hydrophone In Big Creek Take 1 1.9 MB
11 Human – As I Walk Upon This Land   7.6 MB
12 Walkin’ By Water  1.5 MB
13 Fire Drums Take 1  2.5 MB
14 Jerome – Cycles  3.4 MB
15 Sound Of Sawing N Hammering Take 2  1.8 MB
16 Walkin’ Through Muddy Trail  2.2 MB
17 Choice & Guitar Mikal – Why I’m Leaving You  6.8 MB
18 Cookin’ Up Some Taters   2.6 MB
19 Contact Mic On Cutting Board  1.5 MB
20 David PDX – Skookum Meadows   3.3 MB
21 Sound Of Hydrophone In Big Creek Take 2  2.2 MB
22 Walkin’ Main Trail  2.1 MB
23 Osha – Just Right  3.9 MB
24 Sound Of Filling Water Jug Take 1  2.1 MB
25 Sound Of Pouring Water  1.1 MB
26 Contact Mic On Boiling Pot  1.4 MB
27 Sound Of Hydrophone In Soapy Dish Bucket  1.3 MB
28 Fire Drums Take 2  2.9 MB
29 Raina – Hoeing In Spring  2.8 MB
30 Granola Funk Dating Game House Band  2.3 MB
31 Froggies Near Crucial Kitchen  1.7 MB
32 Samantha – Found A Way To Talk To You  5.2 MB
33 Somewhere Over The Mega Rainbow   2.0 MB