Wilderness
First First Released: 1994
Double Platinum Selling Album
A lot of the music on Wilderness has been used in documentaries and films.
Each track certainly features a soundtrack quality, yet the album flows together very nicely. Once again, panflutes, piano and orchestral sounds, somewhat more dramatic than my other nature titles.
During the year of 1994, I had the opportunity to be working with Australian photographer Steve Parish. We were working on a project together - a CD of my music accompanied by a coffee table book of Steve’s fabulous images. We both set out to capture the heart of Australia’s last untouched wilderness areas.
This album is the result of that exciting year. I travelled all over the country with my trusty DAT recorded - setting up before dawn in some extremely remote areas, waiting to record the dawn chorus of birds and creatures - wandering the vast Kakadu lands late at night, sitting by the glorious shores of our East Coast.
When I had completed my ‘wandering’, I ended up with hours and hours of tapes and I set about editing those. As I pieced together the natural symphony, I was already hearing in my mind the pieces I would write. I could sense a way in which I could create a musical symphony to the tempos I was hearing from nature.
I hope I have succeeded in this and that I have produced for you a recording that brings the wonder of this unique land into your home.
Tony O’Connor