Nature Calls- Moon

Not only is Bjork playing her music amongst the constellations in this video, I believe she is also representing the moon.  On her 2011 released album, Biophillia, she describes how she writes music by walking in nature and singing with the mountains.  She's always been a lover of electronics in music referring to the format as circles and with her time in alternative rock ban The Sugarcubes as square.  In this recent album she was able to use sound bites in nature and save it in electronic form.  A fully organic process. You can listen to a very interesting interview with Bjork on CBC radio progam the Q here. 

Nature Calls- Phantom Island

Phantom Island is by Bartel.  A local Vancouver artist and my friend Emily's boyfriend.  She told me stories of how he collected the sounds for these tracks from their trips to Galiano Island.  Sounds were used from them dropping rocks into a well, or layers of waves.  I think if you listen to it you can see how nature is used to create and inspire this song. 

Nature Calls - Curse Your Branches

I saw a living room show with David Bazan a couple of years ago in my friend Lars's living room. It was an amazingly intimate and awe inspiring show.  Bazan is from a small town not to far from me- Everett, Washington. Curse Your Branches from the album of the same name was released in 2009.  It was a controversial song that uses nature as a metaphor depicting his view of Christianity.  Especially controversial because Bazan was previously touted as a Christian artist.     

Nature Calls- Blue Ridge Mountains

The Fleet Foxes are an Indie Folk band from Seattle, Washington.  There music has a very grass-roots feeling to it.  Blue Ridge Mountain was written by Robin Pecknold and he explains in this interview with the Daily Mail in 2009 why this song has a natural incarnation.    "The music was already sounding very rural so it didn't make sense to start adding lyrics about receiving emails and watching TV."

Nature Calls- Ocean of Noise

Arcade Fire is definitely one of my favourite bands of all time.  I love the Montreal music scene and seem to dig everything that develops from that side of the country.  Ocean of Noise is from the album Neon Bible and was released in 2007. 


The ocean is so beautiful from a distance but expansive and exposed when experiencing it from the surface.  This is an interview from Win Butler from New Musical Express in 2007 describing how the ocean inspired this song: "My parents live near the ocean and we've gone there quite a bit over the history of our band. It's really isolated there by the ocean. I remember one time we went out on the 4th of July. It was dusk and we had a little motorboat, so we went out and the fog was starting to roll. We stopped and all of a sudden we were surrounded by fog. We had no idea where we were. And there was a fog horn. It's like you're never less in control of your own life than when you're in the ocean underneath a big wave and there is fog all around you. You can just see that you're a passenger in a weird sense. Things are out of your control. It was just that kind of feeling that I wanted to express."