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Full download available free from http://www.negativesoundinstitute.com Official Liner Notes: Variously described as found music, ambient music, weirdbient music or noise, the work of Gurdonark is different things to different people, but his skill lies in his ability to create a mood or a feeling that transports the listener to an entirely new place. "Tallgrass Canticle" uses the metaphors of prairie and praise to suggest the inward liberation of metaphoric endless fields. The term "canticle", a synonym, among other things, for "hymn", connotes here less a literal religious song than the sense of life and presence embedded in the fields. The religion, if that is the term, is in the seas of grass. Where the casual viewer might find only a landscape of green, the discerning searcher hears the songs of meadowlarks who nest among the grasses and see the kestrel's swift descent among the leaping grasshoppers. As one observer said in the 19th Century: "Soul melting scenery that was about me! A place where the mind could think volumes; but the tongue must be silent that would speak, and the hand palsied that would write. A place where a Divine would confess that he never had fancied Paradise—where the painter's palette would lose its beautiful tints—the blood-stirring notes of eloquence would die in their utterance—and even the soft tones of sweet music would scarcely preserve a spark to light the soul again that had passed this sweet delirium. I mean the prairie, whose enameled
