'The Most Musical Animals in the World': This New Electronic Album Features Endangered Birds

[Judi Lynn]

By Yessenia Funes on 17 Jul 2020 at 2:00PM

Put in some headphones, close your eyes, and let chill jams and tropical endangered birdsongs transport you to the threatened jungles of Latin America. A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean is a new album that features birds and artists from the region all with the purpose of sharing the same message: Save the birds.

“What we’re trying to get across is that the message that these represent a big problem,” Robin Perkins, the project’s founder, told Gizmodo. “We need to start listening to nature, listening to these bird songs because they will disappear if we don’t.”

The album is a followup to the 2015's of A Guide to the Birdsong of South America. On the newly released album, Perkins’ team invited musicians from Central America and the Caribbean to make their own original music. The only rule? The track had to include a birdsong from one of a handful of the region’s birds that range from near threatened to critically endangered on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List.

Each musician chose a bird from their country, creating a personal connection between the musician and the message. Birds on the album include the yellow-headed amazon, a green parrot with a cute yellow head that lives in Mexico, and the Zapata wren, a tiny brown bird found in the swamps of Cuba. The result is an electronic mix of boogie-down cumbia, sometimes haunting melodies, and the cacawing of birds throughout.

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