Chapter Two is international, and includes a musical bonus – audio of two of my favourite rain songs. (one of them is an “unissued” version)
All photos copyright Doug Spencer; the featured image was taken at Milford Sound on Anzac Day 2015.
The next photos are also from April 2015, in Fiordland.
Also in New Zealand, but on the North Island, in March 2017:
A brief return to Western Australia, at a wonderful place to have lunch, especially after after a walk in the nearby jarrah forest.
Then north to Alaska…
These are all from Glacier Bay, in early June 2015:
The final image shows waterfall-wetted rocks in Madagascar.
(much more of Madagascar to come, soon, on Pelican Yoga)
Coda: two great rain songs
The first was titlepiece of John Martyn’s 1971 album. John Martyn (1948-2009) was its author, singer and guitarist. Danny Thompson played the double bass.
This is an alternate take:
Tom (Antonio Carlos) Jobim wrote another of the great rain songs, with a little help (before, unwittingly) from Debussy, and later (intentionally) from Gene Lees.
Lees wrote the English lyric, via which most of the world knows the song as Double Rainbow, rather than as Chovendo Na Roseiro.
My favourite version is on The Best of Two Worlds, a 1976 LP (recorded in 1975) by US saxophonist Stan Getz (1927-1991)
His crucial Brazilian collaborators were this performance’s guitarist and vocalist – respectively, João Gilberto and Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, aka Miúcha.