Flora and Fauna, by Roy Mattson

Flora and Fauna

by Roy Mattson

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Luki13 Organic ambient meditations of the highest potential. Make no mistake, this is powerful psychedelic music. A shamanic tool maybe. Last time I listened to this album, it took me to a rainforest jungle, on a full moon night. Who knows where it will be next time...

Robert Davies A fine album by Mr. Mattson. Highly recommended. Wonderful sounds to play while painting nature studies.

Involution Imagine laying on the forest ground taking the picture of the album cover.
Let your ears adjust to the miniature sounds of this new micro world you just entered. Stay here for awhile and relax. Let all the sounds come to you naturally.

Frank Inzan Owen From the moonlit lattice of branches overhead to the pulsing mycelium beneath the damp forest floor, the forest is alive with movement and sound. Soundscape artist Roy Mattson guides us into deep-dreaming microscopic realities with this arboreal-inspired, nearly entheogenic sonic meditation. This and Mattson's recording MESMER are often on repeat in my studio. Favorite track: Flora and Fauna.

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1.	Arboreal Bodies 15:11	buy track
2.	Flora and Fauna 24:07	buy track
3.	Hyphae 09:35	buy track
4.	Xylem and Phloem 19:30	buy track
5.	Petrichor 14:39	buy track
6.	Woodland Cacophony 12:45	buy track

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"Flora and Fauna" was created with the intent of being comparable to macro-photography, microscope photography, and slow-motion/time-lapse video but using sound to reveal the intimacies and wondrous details of the woods and the plants and animals that live in that environment.

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released September 22, 2018

All music and sounds by Roy Mattson. Music created with synthesizers, field recordings, processed guitar, and assorted wooden flutes.
Thank you to Geoff Rempel for allowing me to use his photo as cover art. Original photo by Geoff Rempel; cropping and text/title design by Roy Mattson.
Please see more of Geoff's photography at www.flickr.com/photos/jephy/

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Roy Mattson Monterey, California

Sound creations of spaces and places, the whole and of traces.

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