Bell Lungs - Seabirds Calling

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This track is dedicated to all the beautiful seabirds who make their homes along the Scottish coastlines, whose numbers are plummeting, due to a number of factors combining into a perilous situation for young fledglings.
The premise for this year's compilation was triggered by the hundreds of dead and dying fledglings who washed up along Ayrshire coastlines, which was highlighted in a video by conservationist Flo Blackbourn.
Inspired by volunteering with nesting seabird populations in 2018 and 2019 on the Isle of Handa (managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust), the migrant crisis, and a 2015 conversation with field recordist Chris Watson about plastic pollution he had observed at sea.

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Seabirds calling on the wind to tell me what they saw
Plastic islands floating out upon the water

And where will we run to, darling
When this world is gone?
And who will we turn to, darling
If we've got no-one?

Seabirds calling on the wind to tell me what they saw
Bloated bodies sinking down into the water

Seabirds calling on the wind to tell me what they saw
Dying oceans everywhere, across the water

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from Remembrance Species 2020, track released November 30, 2020
Bell Lungs is a vocalist, multi - instrumentalist, composer and community musician from Scotland.

Voice, guitar, violin, harmonium, harp and composition by Ceylan Hay.
Recorded and mixed by John Cavanagh at Glo-Spot
Field recordings sourced by John Cavanagh.

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Remembrance Species Scotland, UK

Remembrance Species is a collective based in Scotland, marking Remembrance Day for Lost Species on November 30th through imaginative creative community engagement.

2011 - Funeral for the Great Auk

2012 - St Stephens Island Wren

2016 - "Circle; Cycle" by Great Auk Collective

2018 - Stellers Sea Cow

2020 - Axolotl / Coastal Seabirds ... more

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