Joanna Brouk ‎– Sounds Of The Sea [Cass] (1981, Hummingbird Productions)

California-based Joanna Brouk composed slow, sparse works intended for meditation and reflection, utilizing acoustic instruments, vintage synthesizers, field recordings, and the human voice. Her music was inspired by classical minimalism, but it was embraced by the burgeoning new age movement during the 1980s. Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1949, Brouk moved to Berkeley, California in 1970 to study literature. Inspired by the cadences of poetry and the human voice, as well as the rhythms and soundings of nature, she began creating music. She spent numerous hours experimenting with synthesizers at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland, and studied under the tutelage of avant-garde legends Robert Ashley and Terry Riley. After graduating, she went into radio production, and composed music for documentaries and other programs. She entered Mills' graduate program for electronic music in 1980, and created a work titled "Holy Saturday Mass", performed at the Oakland Cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales, as her thesis. Brouk's classmate Maggi Payne contributed flute, and the compositions appeared on Brouk's 1981 debut 'Healing Music', the first of five cassettes she released on her own Hummingbird Productions throughout the '80s. The tapes were a success with listeners of KPFA (where Brouk became program director) as well as therapists and hospitals. 'Sounds of the Sea', also released in 1981, was Brouk's most fully realized recording, bringing together nature sounds as well as hypnotic vocals and manipulated electronic and acoustic instruments. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC] 

 

Label: Hummingbird Productions ‎– CH103 

Format: Cassette, Album, Stereo 

Country: US 

Released: 1981 

Style: New Age, Ambient, Drone, Whale Song

 

Tracklist:

Atravesta 

A1a Invocation 

A1b Atavesta 

A1c Playing In The Water 

A1d Aurora 

A1e Diving Deeper, Remembering Love 

A1f Going To Sleep 

The Sailor And The Nymph 

B1a The Reminder Of Long Ago 

B1b The Nymph Rising 

B1c Calling The Sailor 

B1d First Meeting 

B1e Touching The Sky 

B1f The Sounding 

B1g Return To The Deep 

 

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