Main content

The grounding sounds of nature ft. Cosmo Sheldrake

Ultimate CalmErland Cooper: Series 5
Episode 4 of 12

Ground yourself as Erland shares reflective music that celebrates our connection with the world around us. And fellow ecological musician Cosmo Sheldrake shares his safe haven.

Ground yourself… In this episode, Scottish composer Erland Cooper invites you to place your ear to the soil and dig deep with a selection of reflective music that celebrates our connection with the world around us. He reflects on one of his own projects that involved burying a tape deep in the peaty earth of Orkney, and shares pieces that honour nature from the field recordings of Alice Boyd and the RSPB, to the folk songs of Sam Lee and Trans Voices.

Also, we’re transported to the musical safe haven of another ecologically minded musician, Cosmo Sheldrake. Cosmo’s own music platforms environmental issues and the entangled nature of our world, and for his safe haven selects a recording of forest singing that always brings him calm.

Produced by Kit Callin
A Reduced Listening production

7 months left to listen

1 hour

On radio

Sun 26 Apr 202621:00
BBC Radio 3

More episodes

Previous

Musical reflections on time ft Sean ShibeErland Cooper: Series 5

Next

Finding calm up in the clouds ft. Sally PotterErland Cooper: Series 5

See all episodes from Ultimate Calm

Music Played

  • Tiny Leaves

    Anthropocene

    • Anthropocene.

  • Cosmo Sheldrake

    Owl Song

    • Owl Song.

  • Kara‐Lis Coverdale

    Suspension of Swallowed Earth

    • A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever.
    • Smalltown Supersound.

  • Lucy Gooch

    Stalagmites & Helicitites

    • Rushing.
    • Fire Records.

  • Erland Cooper

    Carve the runes then be content with silence excerpt

    • Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence.
    • Mercury KX.

  • Park Jiha

    Grounding

    • All Living Things.
    • Tak:til.

  • Alice Boyd & RSPB

    Return of the White-tailed Eagle

    • Return of the White-Tailed Eagle.

  • Iona Brown

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    • Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis.

  • Kin Leonn & Hiroshi Ebina

    Forest future

    • Faraway Vicinity.
    • Kitchen. Label.

  • Cosmo Sheldrake

    Numinous (instrumental)

    • Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds.

  • Louis Sarno & The Babenzélé Pygmies

    Women gathering mushrooms

    • Bayaka - The Extraordinary Music Of The Babenzélé Pygmies.
    • Ellipsis Arts.

  • Sam Lee & Trans Voices

    Green Mossy Banks

    • songdreaming.

  • John Cage & Margaret Leng Tan

    In A Landscape

    • Daughters Of The Lonesome Isle.
    • New Albion.

  • Lomond Campbell

    We go slow

    • LUP.
    • One Little Independent Records.

  • Erland Cooper & Dara McAnulty

    Skreevar

    • Folded Landscapes.
    • Mercury KX.

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Missa a cappella for chorus: Kyrie

    Performer: Latvian Radio Choir. Director: Sigvards Kļava.
    • ONDINE.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 30 Oct 202521:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Thu 22 Jan 202621:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Thu 19 Mar 202621:00
    BBC Radio 3 Unwind
  • Sun 26 Apr 202621:00
    BBC Radio 3