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Recordist's notes
Rock band was playing somewhere in the neighborhood. Suddenly a Common Blackbird with a nest in a nearby garden arrived and started to sing. First gently as he was shy but suddenly just before the band started to play Jimmy Hendrix and Janis Joplin the bird began to sing very loud a fabulous song, something I have never heard it sing before, but this bird has been around my house for some years now. This was recorded with Parabolic dish with Shure MX391/O capsules with Sound Professionals PIP-Phantom power adapter connected to Sound devices 744T recorder. More information and longer version can be found here: http://fieldrecording.net/2013/02/16/blackbird-jimi-hendrix-and-janis-joplin/
About the place
Reykjavík is a city of about 118,918 people in Capital Region, Iceland. OttoAnna lists 24 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Sound Devices recorders and Parabolic reflectors. Professional location recorders (702, 722, MixPre series) with very quiet preamps.
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Sources & credits
- “Háaleiti, Reykjavik, Iceland - The rock band and the singer” by fieldrecording.net@gma... – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0