When a rushing torrent cascades, down a precipitous rocky gorge.
When the intensity of the white noise is so brilliant on your ears, that it feels like acoustic sunshine.
You know you're here.
When the waterfall's rumble is almost completely absorbed by ground knee deep in the softest, deepest foliage.
When all around it echoes throughout a vast cathedral of untouched woodland, that grows up the steep sided gorge, and up, and up again.
And it's intense sound blends and sheens back to you, filtered and reflected from the countless leaves and branches above your head.
You know that by being here, you've made it.
Made it up, to the Dartmoor gorge.
Whether it's the journey, and sometimes hazardous climb.
Or the gradually growing sensation of remoteness, as you pick your way along the path, up, and up.
Or the air, that becomes increasingly filled with a mix of rushing water, and songful woodland birds, and cool negative ions.
Coming here, feels like a pilgrimage.
A pilgrimage to a rarified place, that's lit through day and through night, by brilliant, refreshing, acoustic sunshine.
* Dartmoor, in the South West of England, is home to vast expanses of woodland that we've recently learned are classified as rainforest. We made this recording in April 2022 and released most of it in episode 117. The timeline in this episode partly overlaps with that episode, but we haven't been able to travel back and we feel so drawn to the place that we decided to re-issue part of that section of time with the remaining unreleased material, this time in high definition spatial sound.
218 Sing dawn - the songbirds of Abney Park nature reserve
217 Upland woods in winter gales (part 2 - sleep safe)
216 Sat on the sand of East Looe beach
215 Calm within Kilminorth Woods
214 Storm over hotel peninsula
213 Sound-scenes we love from four years of Lento
212 Ear witness: innercity woodland peace
211 Nothe Fort at night - quiet swirling waves
210 Watery dell amidst trees at night (sleep safe)
209 Downstream of the old mill
208 Lone tree under windswept telegraph wires
207 Bucolic dell in upland meadows (subtle, slow, best with headphones)
206 Dawn birdsong in the leafy ravine
205 Soundscenes of a changing tide (sleep safe)
204 Rain falls on steep craggy woodland (sleep safe)
203 Dartmoor stream above waterfall gorge (part 2)
202 Upland woods in winter gales (breathe easy and *sleep safe*)
201 Out on Cooden Beach at night (part 2 - night breakers on shingle) *sleep safe*
200 Windswept night in the belfry of Rye Church
199 Moorland forest mid winter gales
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