Bird calls dog is a song cycle that explores our passages through light and darkness that evoke stirrings of joy, grief, and love. At heart, it is music to help us find our way home.

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Track listing

  1. Bird Calls Dog
  2. Violets
  3. Wild Spring Nightfall
  4. Dark Sky Solstice
  5. To Be With You
  6. To Know the Dark
  7. Moonbow Lullaby
  8. Mothering Air
  9. Blossom Into the Night
  10. Canopy
  11. Hm Bidi Deje
  12. The Way Snow Fell
  13. Water Under Ice
  14. Necklace of Songs
  15. Hymnody of Earth
  16. Grant Them Rest

All Songs, Words, and Arrangements by Malcolm Dalglish except as noted
Produced by Malcolm Dalglish, Mark O’Leary & Dave Weber
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Dave Weber, Airtime Studios
Adaptations for Piano, Synth & Marimba by Joshua Stephen Kartes
Layout by Malinda Husk, ingenious jane creative studio
Photographs & CD Design by Malcolm Dalglish
Information Technology support by Joe Husk

Ooolitic Music OM 1114 (2024)

The gifted Alta Collective, with their multifaceted artistry, captures the tonality and intention of these songs that were born in wild spaces and sung in far flung places. I’d go to the opposite side of the world to work with them, and did.

Malcolm Dalglish