Music Recorded Underground

• Deep Listening Band - "Troglodyte's Delight" [Non Sequiter]
  Recorded in Tarpaper cave in Rosendale, New York. The Deep Listening web site is at http://www.deeplistening.org/

• Lustmørd - "Paradise Disowned" [Side Effects]
  Parts recorded in a cave at Craig Y Ddinas. More details at http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/music/cds/SECD7.html

• Levin Marotta Gorn - "From the Caves of the Iron Mountain" [Papa Bear Records]
  Recorded inside the Widow Jane Mine in the Catskill Mountains. Papa Bear Records' web site is at http://www.papabear.com/ A review was posted to rec.music.reviews on 28 July 1997 by me@alanine.ram.org in article <5rj97s$2ip@dragon.cs.ubc.ca> (see google groups)

• Steve Thomas - "More People Have Been To The Moon" [Musicave Productions]
  Including recordings made while cave diving. Steve's web site is at http://www.musicave.co.uk/

• Rik Rue - "Ocean Flows" [Tall Poppies]
  'Goondiwindi' is an Aboriginal word meaning "water flowing over rocks" and Rik Rue, Australian sound artist, records it at beaches and in crevices, channels and caves, in and around Sydney Harbour. More details at the Tall Poppies web site.

• Belinda Webster - "Water Music" [Tall Poppies]
  Features the shakuhachi player Riley Lee improvising in an underground water storage tank which sounds rather like a cathedral. More details at the Tall Poppies web site.

• Barb McLeod and CJ Rushin - "The Encounter of the Long Count Keeper"
  Recorded in Blue Hole Cave, Belize (nee British Honduras), released in 1973 on "The Grand Kentucky Junction and Other Songs from the NSS Cave Ballad Competition". Related information can be found in the Cave Song Fake Book web site.

• Julian Cope - "Paranormal in the West Country" from "Autogeddon"
  Recorded in a West Kennet Long Barrow.

• Will Menter - "Wood Wind and Rain Songs"
  A collection of pieces featuring his sound sculptures, recorded in caves, quarries and studios.

• Serena Maneesh - "S-M2: Abyss in B Minor"
  An album recorded in a cave near Oslo. See news article.

• David Auebach - Cave Music
  http://www.cavemusic.net/

• The Tunnel Singer - www.tunnelsinger.com
  

• The Eternal Presence
  Transcendent four part didjeridu compositions recorded in a tunnel above San Francisco. More details at the web site.

• Buskers - Songs From The Underground
  Not quite what I had in mind for this web page, but it's certainly music recorded underground: songs by street musicians (buskers) recorded on the London Underground.

• And Finally...

• Pink Floyd - "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict"
  From the "Ummagumma" album. Although probably not recorded underground it is at least one of the best named songs!

If you come across any others please let me know.

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