Gongs and bells vibrate, tremble, quake, quiver, flutter, flicker, murmer, hum, throb, ding, dong, peal, ping, trill, tinkle, oscillate, ring and shake. Each one a microcosm. Add some African thumb-pianos, small percussion, ambient recordings, and a Fender-Rhodes electric piano, and you get an interestingly clear soup - meditative but very much alive, buddhists along the Zambezi. All instruments by Michael Baird, recorded in 2002. A lot of care was taken to achieve such clarity of the gongs and bells in these recordings: all the overtones are there, sit back and enjoy the journey of soundscapes you get taken on. Some of track 6 was used in the award-winning film The Tree Of Life (directed by Terence Malick, 2011).
Michael Baird, solo project, recorded in 2002