Wren Kitz’s Natural History, Vol. 1 is a compilation of outdoor and wildlife recordings made in New England, 2019-2022. All sound was recorded with a 1960s Nagra III on 1/4 inch tape and a 1970s Nakamichi 550 on cassette tape. Everything you hear is as it sounded while it was recorded. There is no overdubbing.
Be transported to the shore of Stone Pond while the Loon wails, huddled in a blind by a swamp at the edge of a floodplain forest, and to the nightscape of Gosport Harbor, Isle of Shoals.
ANOTHER EARTH 2022
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released November 18, 2022
A.Crows - Red Rocks, Burlington, VT fall 2019
'Shack Shelf', Gosport Harbor at night, 'Lovers Cove' - Star Island, NH fall 2021
Ice Chunks - Lake Champlain winter 2021
Laughing Gulls, Song Sparrow, Willets, Crows - Chatham, MA spring 2021
Swamp Chorus - South Hero, VT spring 2021
American Toad chorus - Intervale, Burlington, VT spring 2022
Leopard Frogs - South Hero, VT spring 2021
B.
Mourning Dove + Northern Cardinal, Spring Chorus - Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, VT spring 2020
Chimes, Red-eyed Vireo, Ovenbird - Marlborough, NH summer 2020
Loon Wailing, bullfrogs, green frogs - Marlborough, NH summer 2020
Loon Wailing, peepers, toads - Marlborough, NH summer 2021
Mid-Day Cricket Chorus - Marlborough, NH summer 2020
Hummingbird wings + black bear cubs wrestling - Marlborough, NH summer 2020
Rain, Blue Jays - Marlborough, NH summer 2019
Nighttime cricket chorus, Barred Owl - Marlborough, NH summer 2020
All sounds recorded to tape by Wren Kitz
Narration by Wren Kitz
Album art/photography by Abbey Meaker and Wren Kitz
Wren Kitz is a song writer and field recordist based in Burlington, VT. Wren's unique and personal style of music has been
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