Hilissuvi by Fintan O'Brien

A few years ago I was in Palupohja in August from about the 8th to the 14th, I recorded mainly cricket choruses in the evenings and early nights, I recorded also in the early mornings but didn't get many recordings, at least not enough similar recordings to make any new production. Very diverse recordings are hard to put together in a way that would sound like they were all made at the same time of day. This trip however, though I only got about six hours of recordings, they are very alike and when I got home I was pleasantly surprised what I was able to make of them, the quiet background in each made it easy to cross-fade from one recording to the next. I would like to thank Andrus for the lift out to the reserve from Tartu and his help with the name for this production. Hilissuvi is an Estonian word that basically means the time of year that is the late summer and also the early autumn. There is no English word for it.

I am Fintan O’Brien and have been recording for 41 years. I am a cabinetmaker by trade but my passion is recording the sounds of nature.
I have recorded in Belize, Costa Rica, Guyana, Brazil, Peru, Finland, Estonia, Sweden, Wales, and my own country of Ireland.