The ingredients: “Elegant scops owl, Ryukyu flying fox, Yaeyama harpist frog, Ryukyu ruddy kingfisher, cicadas, Ryukyu green pigeon, Ryukyu crow, white breasted waterhen …”
The setting: the remote Japanese Island of Iriomote, which is so far south on the archipelago that it looks more like a neighbor of Taiwan.
The recordist: Rodolphe Alexis traveled to Iriomote this past summer, and returned with a four-channel document of the luxurious habitat, all bleating and crooning, welping and whizzing, croaking and cawing. It is an enticingly remote sonic postcard, available for free download as an [MP3](http://www.touchshop.org/touchradio/Radio104.mp3).
Track originally posted at [touchradio.org.uk](http://www.touchradio.org.uk/touch_radio_104_rodolphe_alexis.html). More on Alexis, who is based in Paris, at [rodolphe-alexis.info](http://www.rodolphe-alexis.info/).