Lars Fredrikesson
Ting Qui
(Listening to Autumn)
Country Eastern Music – 06
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I am including this review because it strikes my fancy. There is a whole booklet (16 pages) explaining how great care went into this recording and how the 79+ minutes were edited down from over 100 hours of recordings of crickets, and how 108 crickets were conducted by Lars Fredrikesson. Quite frankly, 100 hours what did the crickets musicians union say? I get the same sounds in my house (I don’t use pesticides) and in my backyard year round, though we never did count the number of crickets nor did anyone attempt to conduct them (How is that done? And does one have to use a miniature baton?). I live in America and to my uneducated ear the sounds on this disc of Chinese crickets sounds exactly
like the sounds of the American crickets that inhabit the Southwestern United States. This household is a long time meditation household and these are the sounds that eliminate the traffic noise and can be ambient or focused upon depending on your wish. I think it would be better to buy some crickets in the pet store (save them from being fed to snakes and such) and let them loose in the house; then you will have committed a humanitarian act, and won’t have to use natural resources to hear the sounds on this disc, and you will have saved the price of this disc.