Jana Winderen – Energy Field
This outstanding new Touch release is an album comprised of documents made by sound recordist Jana Winderen over a number of field trips to the Barents Sea, Greenland, and Norway.
Winderen delves deeply into glaciers, fjords, and the open ocean with her equipment, capturing incredible unseen worlds populated by baffling and wholly alien sounds. You’ll seldom have any idea as to what might be making some of these amazing noises, but among them are: “Sounds of crustaceans, fish such as cod, haddock, herring, and pollock recorded as they are hunting, calling for a mate or orientating themselves in their environment.”
The disc is divided into three lengthy pieces, each one assembled from a variety of different recordings, carefully layered and edited so as to give a flowing, seamless account of the various locales Winderen explored on her field trips. In terms of recording fidelity and all-round immersive brilliance, Energy Field is right up there alongside Chris Watson’s greatest works—it really is that good. Anyone with an affection for the art of sound recording will instantly adore this release; it’s an album that offers a consistently surprising and illuminating depiction of regions in our natural world that would otherwise be inaccessible to us.



















