Cetacea (Arrival)

by Michael Dornan Music

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I've been working on a record about creativity & nature! It's called Flora & Fauna. As an aperitif, or the 'Pringles before the barbecue' as it were, here's a piece that'll cameo on the full album. I've been taking audio recordings of the sea, of rivers, creating software instruments out of samples I made in a forest (who'd've thought you could make drumming noises by hitting things with sticks!) and just loving how the growing world (plant life, recently fledged birds, amphibians) has given me therapy while the human world has been rather locked down.

It's a miniature hymn to nature's sheer variety. I don't know why there're more than, like, twelve types of flower and two types of whale. I don't understand but I'm thankful.

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Cetacea – flora-fauna
Lepidoptera before my eyes
Fill the canvas – Agapanthus
Rhinopithecus nearby

Cetacea: circle the sea!
Flora, fauna: fecundity!
Lepidoptera – glory be before my eyes.
Fill the canvas up with colour!
Agapanthus: fill it fuller!
Rhinopithecus rendezvous nearby

Capreola – flora-fauna
Ptilihopus magnificus…

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released September 4, 2020

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Michael Dornan Music England, UK

Singer-songwriter based in Devon, UK

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