Colpophyllia natans, known as boulder brain coral and large-grooved brain coral, is a species of stony coral found primarily in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It inhabits the slopes and tops of reefs, to a maximum depth of fifty metres. It is characterised by large, domed colonies, which may be up to two metres across, and by the meandering network of ridges and valleys on its surface. The ridges are usually brown with a single groove, and the valleys may be tan, green, or white and are uniform in width, typically 2 centimetres. The polyps only extend their tentacles at night.
Last week I went to an aquarium with lots of Corals, and to my surprise, there was one coral with shape of a Brain, It was mind-boggling for me.
© Brian Skerry by ILCP on Flickr.
I was looking for some Blue Whales sounds, on sound cloud, and I found this brilliant piece. It just blow my mind.
iMindFuck
Blue Whales comes from our album ‘Swept Away’. This is the closer of the song cycle. I had this mental image of floating along through a submerged New York, with wrecked cars, street signs and skyscrapers reaching up and beyond the surface of the water and then a blue whale rounding the corner of a building as the orchestration comes in.
I think we achieved exactly what I wanted on this track – it’s probably the closest out of all of the tracks to the thing I’d heard in my head. The whale sounds at the end, by the way, are not samples. They were all played on guitar (hence the “Strat Whale” reference) and were done on the first take by Brian – what you hear is exactly as he played it, with no editing.
The results are pretty haunting and hypnotic.
Phil
Full details about ‘Swept Away’ the album can be found here http://www.shardsofreason.co.uk
