WILDLIFE

 Expanded & Remastered 2 CD Edition

 

Between 1994 and 2000, Ant and Joji Hirota collaborated on a number of outstanding soundtracks for wildlife television programmes in the award-winning Survival series.  In addition, Anthony also wrote and recorded the music for a programme in the BBC series The Natural World.  First released in 2007, Wildlife features the highlights from these richly atmospheric and evocative soundtracks.  From the forests of the Amazon to the huge expanses of the Serengeti; from the cold wastes of Kamchatka in Russia to the peaceful tranquillity of the Norfolk countryside - the music of Wildlife reflects these habitats and the amazingly diverse range of creatures that populate them.

Wildlife has now been newly remastered and expanded to a 2 CD set featuring an additional disc of soundtrack and library music pieces recorded by Ant both in collaboration with Joji and on his own. Also released commercially for the first time is The Victors, a collaboration between Ant and Mike Rutherford recorded for the TVS series Horse Trials in 1991.

This expanded and re-mastered Esoteric Recordings edition features an illustrated booklet with liner notes from Anthony Phillips and Jonathan Dann and is a welcome re-issue of a wonderful collection of music by two imaginative and respected musicians.

Wildlife is out now and is available to order from Cherry Red and Amazon.

 
 
 

Wildlife Track Listing

CD One / Original album release CD Two

1. Creatures of the Magic Water - Opening Theme (0:59)
2. Green Hell (0:30)
3. Jaguar and the Terrapin (0:49)
4. Flooded Forest (1:59)
5. Hidden Shadow (1:03)
6. River God (1:35)

7. Secrets of the Amazon (1:37)
8. Killing Grounds (1:31)
9. River Dolphins (1:09)
10. Faces in the Forest (0:44)
11. Final Journey (1:40)

12. Onza - Eater of Souls (1:46)
13. Relentless Sun - in Half-Drowned Lands (1:49)

14. Serengeti Jigsaw - Opening Theme (1:20)
15. Massacre of the Termites (1:20)

16. Web of the Spider Monkey - Opening Theme (2:32)

17. Island of Stone (2:37)
18. Fireflies (1:12)
19. Courting Chameleons (1:34)
20. Rock Spires, Crocodile Caves (1:21)
21. Dusty Track (0:43)
22. Fathomless Caverns (2:15)

23. Storm Breaks (1:35)
24. Morning Call (0:47)
25. Autumn Dusk (0:52)

26. Bears of Kamchatka - Opening Theme (0:56)
27. In the Tundra (0:43)
28. Across the Frozen Wastes (3:12)
29. Nighthunt (0:54) 
30. Cubs (1:35)

31. Mother of the Moon (1:59)

32. Jurassic Shark - Opening Theme (1:41)
33. Ray's Song (1:28)
34. Voyage of the Whale Shark (2:33)
35. Megalodon (0:58)
36. The Only Good Shark is a Dead One (0:50)
37. Back Through Time - Under The Ocean (2:10)
38. Jurassic Shark - Closing Theme (0:38)

39. Midway: Island of Life - Opening Theme (2:09)
40. Dolphins at Play (1:57)
41. Dolphins, Seals & Rays (1:34)
42. Mysteries of the Wreck (1:37)
43. Sunset Flight (1:14)
44. Fight to the Death (2:14)
45. From the Jaws of Death - Touching the Face of God (3:08)

 
1. Wildfire (0:27)
2. East of Eden (2:49)
3. Web of the Spider Monkey (2:58)
4. Appalachian Heights (1:50)
5. Night Train (original version) (2:07)
6. Fast Train (1:08)
7. Bay Beneath The Sea Suite (8:18)
8. Schaun Journey (alternate version) (3:56)
9. Valley Beneath The Sea (2:38)
10. Eastern Market (3:09)
11. Sky Valley (2:36)
12. Outback (1:22)
13. Lemurs Prologue (4:24)
14. Eastern Rivers (1:37)
15. Mysterious Skies (4:35)
16. Waterfalls (1:20)
17. Loons Suite (6:12)
18. The Victors (1:40)


Tracks 2, 3, 4, 9 & 15 previously released
on Survival: The Music of Nature

All other tracks previously unreleased

Back