℗ 2017 Delphian Records
Released April 21, 2017
Duration 1h 04m 23s
Record Label Delphian Records
Catalogue No. DCD34185
Genre Classical (20th/21st Century)
 

The Edge of Time: Palaeolithic Bone Flutes from France & Germany

Anna Friederike Potengowski, Georg Wieland Wagner

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1.1
Wisdom 1
Anna Friederike Potengowski; Anna Friederike Potengowski
1:37
1.2
Wadawishung Pade
Georg Wieland Wagner; Anna Friederike Potengowski; Georg Wieland Wagner
4:40
1.3
Cabanaconde
Georg Wieland Wagner; Anna Friederike Potengowski; Georg Wieland Wagner
5:03
1.4
Ryoanji
John Cage; Anna Friederike Potengowski; Georg Wieland Wagner
11:49
1.5
Improvisation
Anna Friederike Potengowski; Anna Friederike Potengowski
2:37
1.6
Daybreak
Anna Friederike Potengowski; Anna Friederike Potengowski; Georg Wieland Wagner
3:39
1.7
Mayuman
Georg Wieland Wagner; Anna Friederike Potengowski; Georg Wieland Wagner
7:04
1.8
Seebergers Lied
Anna Friederike Potengowski; Anna Friederike Potengowski
2:30
1.9
Wisdom 2
Anna Friederike Potengowski; Anna Friederike Potengowski
1:26
1.10
Sand
Georg Wieland Wagner; Anna Friederike Potengowski; Georg Wieland Wagner
4:05
1.11
Wisdom 3
Anna Friederike Potengowski; Anna Friederike Potengowski
2:33
1.12
Aare
Anna Friederike Potengowski; Anna Friederike Potengowski
4:00
1.13
Improvisation II
Anna Friederike Potengowski; Anna Friederike Potengowski
1:20
1.14
Swan Song
Georg Wieland Wagner; Anna Friederike Potengowski; Georg Wieland Wagner
5:10
1.15
Reverie
Rupert Till; Anna Friederike Potengowski
2:33
1.16
Destination and Anchor
Georg Wieland Wagner; Anna Friederike Potengowski; Georg Wieland Wagner
4:17
Around 40,000 years ago, towards the end of the last Ice Age, the upper Danube region was settled by anatomically modern humans. Traces of their daily life have been found at several cave sites in the south of modern Germany, including fragments of perforated bird bones and mammoth ivory. Representing the oldest evidence of musical creation worldwide, these prehistoric flutes – two from caves at Geissenklösterle, one from Hohle Fels, and a slightly later, more fully preserved find from Isturitz cave in the French Pyrenees – have been reconstructed in the modern era. Flautist Anna Friederike Potengowski has studied the instruments and their possible playing techniques, and together with percussionist Georg Wieland Wagner has created a compelling programme of music in which contemporary modes of expression absorb and are reshaped by echoes from the edge of time. Water splashing against rocks, rustling grasses, the eternal musical truth of breath on bone … The fourth volume in Delphian’s pioneering collaboration with the European Music Archaeology Project has the deepest roots – and the widest reach – yet.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Delphian Records Studio Masters

Tracks 1-16 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM
Track title
Peak
(dB FS)
RMS
(dB FS)
LUFS
(integrated)
DR
Album average
Range of values
-4.60
-8.98 to -0.40
-26.92
-36.77 to -21.28
-21.26
-29.70 to -15.20
13
8 to 26
1
Wisdom 1
-2.27-21.28-15.210
2
Wadawishung Pade
-4.53-25.52-19.811
3
Cabanaconde
-2.17-27.86-22.916
4
Ryoanji
-0.42-36.77-29.726
5
Improvisation
-5.61-25.94-18.69
6
Daybreak
-8.14-27.53-20.911
7
Mayuman
-0.81-27.16-21.618
8
Seebergers Lied
-5.47-28.47-21.111
9
Wisdom 2
-6.54-27.74-21.014
10
Sand
-3.42-24.34-18.412
11
Wisdom 3
-8.13-28.53-23.410
12
Aare
-1.60-25.48-18.815
13
Improvisation II
-8.98-26.51-20.78
14
Swan Song
-7.73-25.47-23.613
15
Reverie
-7.34-25.41-20.811
16
Destination and Anchor
-0.40-26.78-23.619

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