Earth: Voices of a Planet is an album released by Paul Winter

Paul Winter

Paul Winter is an American saxophonist , and is a six-time Grammy Award nominee.- Biography :Paul Winter attended Altoona Area High School and graduated in 1957...

 in 1990. The album was a commissioned for the 20th anniversary of Earth Day

Earth Day

Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. The name and concept of Earth Day was allegedly pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. The first Proclamation of Earth Day was by San Francisco, the...

, and was premiered in Times Square

Times Square

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 by the Paul Winter Consort

Paul Winter Consort

The Paul Winter Consort is an American musical group, led by soprano saxophonist Paul Winter. Founded in 1967, the group mixes elements of jazz, classical music, world music, and the sounds of animals and nature. They are often classified as new age music or "ecological jazz", and their unique...

 and special guests. The album is a tribute to the Earth

Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...

, and features at least one instrument or voice from every continent. The album also features the use of animal calls woven into the music. In particular, recordings of elephant basso-rumbles are used. These sounds, created by elephants, are too low for the human ear to detect on its own, and their existence was unknown until shortly before the album was created.

The album was nominated for a Grammy award in 1991.

Track listing

1. "Appalachian Morning" (Halley)
2. "Cathedral Forest" (Halley)
3. "Call Of The Elephant" (Dadey, Berliner, Halley, Winter)
4. "Antarctica" (Halley, Winter)
5. "Ocean Child" (Orca, Halley, Winter)
6. "Uirapuru Do Amazonas" (De Mello, Thiago)
7. "Talkabout" (Friesen, Winter, Landau, Turre)
8. "Russian Girls" (Pokrovsky, Friesen, Halley, Winter, Landau)
9. "Black Forest" (Winter)
10. "Song Of The Exile" (De Mello, Thiago)
11. "Under the Sun" (Velez, Clark, Halley, McCandless, Winter)
12. "And The Earth Spins" (Halley)

Personnel

• Paul Winter
  Paul Winter
  Paul Winter is an American saxophonist , and is a six-time Grammy Award nominee.- Biography :Paul Winter attended Altoona Area High School and graduated in 1957...
  
  - soprano sax
• Rhonda Larson- flute
• Eugene Friesen
  Eugene Friesen
  Eugene Friesen is an American cellist and composer.Friesen is a graduate of the Yale School of Music. He has been a member of the Paul Winter Consort since 1978, and performs with Howard Levy and Glen Velez as Trio Globo...
  
  - cello
• Paul Halley
  Paul Halley
  Paul Halley is an organist, singer, pianist, and composer. He is perhaps best known as being a member of and composer for the Paul Winter Consort.- Biography :...
  
  - keyboards
• Oscar Castro-Neves
  Oscar Castro-Neves
  Oscar Castro-Neves is a Brazilian guitarist, arranger, and composer who is considered a founding figure in Bossa nova. He was born as one of triplets and formed a band with his brothers in his youth. At 16 he had a national hit with Chora Tua Tristeza. Many of the early Bossa Nova musicians began...
  
  - guitar
• Russ Landau
  Russ Landau
  Russ Landau is an American composer of film and television scores and themes including Survivor, Fear Factor, and Pirate Master for which he won an Emmy in 2008.-References:...
  
  - bass
• Paul McCandless
  Paul McCandless
  Paul McCandless, Jr. is an American jazz woodwind player and composer. He is one of few expert jazz oboists, and also plays English horn, soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, and pennywhistle, among other instruments.He has performed with the Paul Winter Consort and is...
  
  - oboe
• Glen Velez
  Glen Velez
  Glen Velez is an American percussionist, vocalist, and composer, specializing in frame drums from around the world. He is largely responsible for the increasing popularity of frame drums in the United States and around the world....
  
  - percussion
• Ted Moore
  Ted Moore
  Ted Moore, B.S.C. was a cinematographer and camera operator on nearly fifty films, and is probably most famous for his work on seven of the James Bond films in the 1960s and early 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  - percussion
• Paul Wertico
  Paul Wertico
  Paul Wertico is an American drummer. He gained recognition as a member of the Pat Metheny Group from 1983 until 2001, leaving the group to spend more time with his family and to pursue other musical interests. Metheny heard the Simon Bard Group with Wertico and bassist Steve Rodby, and invited...
  
  - drums
• Kenny Mazur- steel-string guitar
• Paul Berliner
  Paul Berliner
  Paul Franklin Berliner is an American ethnomusicologist, best known for specializing in African music as well as jazz and other improvisational systems. He is best known for his popular ethnomusicology book on the Zimbabwean mbira, The Soul of Mbira: music and traditions of the Shona people of...
  
  - percussion
• Kwaku Dadey- Ghanaian drums
• Thaigo De Mello- voice, guitar, percussion
• Steve Turre
  Steve Turre
  Steve Turre is a trombonist, recording artist, arranger, and educator. In 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2006 he won the Down Beat Reader's Poll for best trombonist....
  
  - didjeridu
• Guillerme Franco- percussion
• The Dimitri Pokrovsky Singers