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Jelena Peri​š​ić - Sleep song (chirps of the exosphere) (Sri Lanka)

from Music for Sleep by Cities and Memory

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I got to work with the sounds captured at Rumassala Sanctuary in Sri Lanka. I was enchanted by how bustling the jungle beach actually is - it is absolutely packed with sounds. I was especially drawn to the tweets and chirps of the birds and insects, which inspired me to record a simple, peaceful, lullaby-like song. I don’t know what time of day it was when these sounds were captured, but I imagined it was night - hence the idea for a lullaby.

The lyrics were inspired by one of the singers I admire, the late Chuck Mosley; I imagined singing a farewell lullaby to him, far beyond our Earthly realm, joined by a choir of birds and insects whose voices are filtered by the many layers of the Earth’s atmosphere.

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from Music for Sleep, released October 23, 2023

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Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
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