Mitte des Monats erscheint unter dem Titel “From Dusk Till Dawn” ein kompilatives Album des 2021 verstorbenen britischen Klangforschers und -Künstlers Ian Rawes inter dessen Projekt The London Sound Survey. Die acht Stücke entstanden dem Titel entsprechend während ausgedehnter nächtlicher Wanderungen im Grenzgebiet der beiden East Anglia-Counties Norfolk und Suffolk und präsentieren ein fotorealistischen Mosaik aus Geräuschen der Natur, wobei diese auch gerade bei ihrem Zusammentreffen mit Monumenten der menschlichen Zivilisation interessante Seiten offenbaren können: Neben opulenten Vogelstimmen zählt der Klang des Windes, der sich an den Wänden einer verlassenen Pumpstation bricht, zu den beeindruckendsten Momenten des Albums. “From Dusk Till Dawn” erscheint als CD und digital bei Persistence of Sound.

“At sunset, the sounds of wildfowl travel far across the flooded fields of the Ouse Washes in Cambridgeshire. Many are Bewick’s and whooper swans spending the winter in the Fens before migrating back to Iceland and Siberia. With the sun now below the horizon, thousands of rooks and jackdaws fly home in the twilight to roost near the village of Buckenham, south-east of Norwich. Their massed cries overwhelm the listener, swelling and fading and growing stronger again as they settle within their citadel of the tree-tops.Around midnight the path by the river Ouse in Norfolk is deserted, and the only shelter to be had close by among the flat expanse of fields is inside an abandoned pumping station. The wind blows through broken windowpanes and sets the loose debris within to a fretful clattering. Past four o’clock and the May dawn chorus has begun at the RSPB reserve at Lakenheath in Suffolk. The songs and calls of many species are heard from among the reserve’s mosaic of woodland and wetland, including the resonant booming of bitterns and raucous flights of geese. At this hour it sounds as though the world belongs to the birds alone. Dawn breaks over the North Sea and a colony of grey seals groan and cry among the sand dunes of Winterton in Norfolk. Their vocalisations have a human-like cadence, and have for their background the unresting rhythm of the waves. The journey from dusk till dawn is complete.” (Ian Rawes)