For The Birds: The Bird Song Project

Various Artist Compilation featuring 200 songs of original music and bird-related poetry. The release will benefit The Audubon Society.

The Birdsong Project is a community dedicated to the protection of bird life, and to the celebration of the joy and mysteries of birdsong. We believe that birds - no matter feather or flock - are precious and inspiring and fundamental to our world. That a world without birds would be a world without freedom and flight and song. We believe birds matter, are endangered and need our help.

For the Birds: The Birdsong Project – Complete Track List

ALBUM #1

SIDE A

1. Wood Dove - Performed by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

2. Archangel - Performed by Beck

3. Seeds - Performed by Alaska Reid and A. G. Cook

4. The Morning - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Danielle Haim

5. Fly On - Performed by Karen Elson

6. Fly Away (With the Songs) - Performed by Michael Rother & Vittoria Maccabruni

SIDE B

1. On the Wing - Performed by Jim James

2. Honey, in the Wild - Performed by Josh Kaufman feat. Annie Nero

3. Unbroken Wing - Performed by Mike Campbell

4. Migration of Birds - Written by Gary Snyder. Read by Wally Wolodarsky

5. May 18th 1929 Lost - Performed by Alex Somers

ALBUM #2

SIDE A

1. Bird Calling - Performed by Mark Ronson feat. Damon Albarn & Wale

2. One for Sorrow - Performed by UNKLE

3. Once Let Free - Performed by Emily Cross

4. Kyoto: March - Written by Gary Snyder. Read by Jelani Cobb

5. Sanctuary - Performed by Beach House

6. Welcome Morning - Written by Anne Sexton. Read by Natalie Bergman

SIDE B

1. Mine Is Not Your Beauty - Performed by Uwade

2. Birds for Phil - Performed by Spring Summer

3. Una Melodía - Performed by El Búho feat. Emilie Basez

4. Bone’s Lament - Performed by Darius Christian & Reginald Chapman

5. Nouns of Assemblage - Performed by Blake Mills

6. Elsewhere Bird - Performed by Richard Reed Parry

7. The Garden - Written by Mark Strand. Read by Tennessee Thomas

ALBUM #3

SIDE A

1. Counting Birds - Written by Jim Harrison. Read by Sean Penn

2. Kachofugetsu - Performed by Kaoru Watanabe

3. St. Francis and the Birds - Performed by Terry Riley

4. Birdsong - Performed by Tawiah

5. Crow Dialectic - Performed by Elliot Bergman

SIDE B

1. A Grandchild's Song for Robins in Year Two of Pandemic - Performed by Ray Young Bear

2. When the Birds Were Banished from the Palace - Written by Saoirse Stice. Read by Jack Kornfield

3. Birds Return - Performed by Hatis Noit

4. Salt Point - Performed by Tyondai Braxton

5. Forty Songs - Performed by Lee Ranaldo. Lyrics by Michael McClure

6. Wounded Bird - Performed by Kurt Vile

ALBUM #4

SIDE A

1. Cuckoo Song - Performed by Jarvis Cocker

2. Cuckoo Bird - Performed by Haden Triplets

3. Hummingbird - Written by Raymond Carver. Read by Donald Ray Pollock

4. Hum Hum Hum - Performed by Karen O

5. Whistling in the Dark - Performed by Molly Lewis

6. Sparrow - Written by Norman MacCaig. Read by Tilda Swinton

SIDE B

1. Oreals - Performed by Rudresh Mahanthappa

2. Fly Catcher - Performed by James McAlister

3. State Bird - Written by Ada Limón. Read by Mickey Sumner

4. The Calling - Performed by Nick Rhodes & Wendy Bevan

5. Bluebirds (2021 Acoustic Version) - Performed by Adam Green

6. Why Does the Girl Bird Sing - Performed by Suzzy Roche

ALBUM #5

SIDE A

1. Birdsong for Randy - Performed by Dan Deacon

2. When the Sun Explodes - Performed by Very Nice Person

3. Weird Bird - Written by Shel Silverstein. Read by Bobby Cannavale

4. And Your Bird Can Sing / The Birds Will Be Singing - Performed by Elvis Costello

5. Lucifer Hummingbird - Performed by The Flaming Lips

6. Who (Don't Look Back) - Performed by Andrew Wyatt

7. California Towhee - Written and read by Jonathan Franzen

SIDE B

1. Open Window - Performed by Michael Uzowuru

2. tori no uta - Performed by Aska Matsumiya

3. Two Arms - Performed by Le Ren

4. Sparrow, Sparrow, What Did You Say? - Written by Ada Limón. Read by Molly Rosen

5. Your Birthday at the Huntington - Performed by Mary Lattimore

6. Are We - Written and read by Jorie Graham

ALBUM #6

SIDE A

1. The Hawk & the Crow - Performed by Olivia Chaney

2. Bell Minor - Performed by Jeff Tweedy

3. Broom - Written by Jim Harrison. Read by Matthew McConaughey

4. Godswits - Performed by Mark Mulcahy

5. Red Tailed Hawk - Performed by Inara George and Van Dyke Parks

6. Great Blue Heron - Performed by Calexico

SIDE B

1. Trying To Get Out - Performed by Siddhartha Khosla

2. Hope Is a Feather - Performed by Ganavya

3. Birdsong - Performed by Ramesh & Jason Chronis

4. Black Cherries - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Alice Waters

5. Stations Parallel - Performed by Sam Prekop

6. Kwitaro Backbone - Performed by Shearwater

ALBUM #7

SIDE A

1. Wild Geese - Written by Mary Oliver. Read by Florence Welch

2. Overview - Performed by CUP (Yuka C. Honda & Nels Cline)

3. The Gospel of Oke - Performed by Ebe Oke

4. One Eye Open - Performed by Douglas Dare feat. EERA

5. Theme for Flight - Performed by Cecile Believe

6. Hyper Happy - Performed by Eleanor Friedberger

7. Good Bones - Written by Maggie Smith. Read by Natasha Lyonne

SIDE B

1. V Formation - Performed by Buzzy Lee

2. The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write - Written by Gregory Orr. Read by Ann Beattie

3. TINSELTOWN - Performed by Girlpool

4. If I Were a Kookaburra - Performed by Stephin Merritt

5. Ostrich Walk - Performed by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks

6. The Hidden Singer - Written by Wendell Berry. Read by Bob Balaban

7. Birds and Piano - Performed by Michael Penn

ALBUM #8

SIDE A

1. A Dark Thing inside the Day - Written by Linda Gregg. Read by Robert Pattinson

2. Tomorrow - Performed by Hania Rani

3. In the Gale - Performed by Yo-Yo Ma. Composed by Anna Clyne

4. Winter’s Blessing - Written by John Kelly. Read by Brady Corbet

5. The Maddening Hour, or Ode to Owl - Performed by Isabella Summers

6. Evening Chorus (Live in the Bluebell Woods) - Performed by Cosmo Sheldrake

7. LSD - Written by Alex Dimitrov. Read by Jeff Goldblum

SIDE B

1. Strong but Fail - Performed by Roddy Bottum

2. Love High Noon - Performed by Claude Fontaine

3. Good To See - Performed by Seu Jorge & Flor

4. Wefoch (Birds) - Performed by Dexter Story

5. The Sparrow - Written by William Carlos Williams. Read by Tim Blake Nelson

ALBUM #9

SIDE A

1. Turiya (For the Birds remix) - Performed by Alice Coltrane

2. The Bird - Written and read by David Cale

3. Of Mere Being - Performed by Thomas Bartlett

4. Hanover Birds - Performed by Poppy Ackroyd

5. The Day Is Done - Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Read by Chelsie Diane

SIDE B

1. Hymn for Four Birds - Performed by Paul Cantelon

2. Dawn Chorus - Performed by SQÜRL

3. Sonic Woodland: Dawn Chorus (excerpt) - Performed by Hidden Orchestra feat. Tim Southorn

4. Wild Swans - Written by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Read by Lorrie Moore

5. Birdiesf or RP - Performed by Emile Haynie

6. To the New Year - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Regina King

ALBUM #10

SIDE A

1. The Conditional - Written by Ada Limón. Read by Wendell Pierce

2. Strictly for the Birds - Performed by Hawley & LOZAC'H

3. The Little Bird - Performed by Natalie Bergman

4. Pinions of a Dove - Performed by Rayna Gellert

5. Little Birdie - Performed by Loudon Wainwright III

6. Black Cherries - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Greta Gerwig

7. my dove, to sleep - Performed by Vanbur

SIDE B

1. Carolina Turtledove - Performed by Joachim Cooder

2. The Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska - Written by Billy Collins. Read by Conor Oberst

3. Thornbird - Performed by Daniel Lanois

4. Ka - Performed by Devendra Banhart

5. Highway Psithurism - Performed by Meg Baird

6. Far Rockaway - Performed by Stuart Bogie

7. Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Antonio Campos

ALBUM #11

SIDE A

1. Seven in the Woods - Written by Jim Harrison. Read by Jason Schwartzman

2. 136 Syllables at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center - Written by Allen Ginsberg. Read by Larry Ratso Sloman

3. Perth to Melbourne - Performed by Stella Donnelly

4. Flight to the Sun - Performed by Koa Kalish

5. Skylark - Performed by Wyldest

6. They Ask Me - Written and read by Jorie Graham

7. For Octavia Butler - Performed by Atlas Sound & L’Rain

8. Pasadena Parrots - Performed by Adrock

SIDE B

1. Morning Maggie - Performed by Carla dal Forno

2. Noah's Raven - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by John Burnham Schwartz

3. Diamond Dove - Performed by Gyða Valtýsdóttir

4. Kookaburra Boogie - Performed by Thurston Moore & Wobbly

5. Nightbird - Performed by Marcelo Zarvos

6. In May - Written by Adam Zagajewski. Read by Sandor Katz

7. For the Birds - Performed by Makaya McCraven

ALBUM #12

SIDE A

1. Before the World - Performed by Laurie Anderson

2. Mr. Sparrow - Performed by John Cale

3. Dawn Revisited - Written and read by Rita Dove

4. Altamira Oriole - Performed by Woodkid

5. Baepholus - Performed by Ben Lukas Boysen

6. How Many Nights - Written by Galway Kinnell. Read by Michelle Williams

SIDE B

1. Goldfinch Yodel - Performed by Arthur Jeffes

2. Birds - Performed by Koreless

3. Feather - Performed by Masayoshi Fujita

4. Loon Song - Performed by Eluvium

5. Secret Life - Written by Li-Young Lee. Read by Nana Mensah

6. Arada - Performed by Meara O'Reilly

ALBUM #13

SIDE A

1. Not-Yet - Written by Jane Hirshfield. Read by Victoria Legrand

2. Monteverde September 08 - Performed by The Album Leaf

3. Birdsong Call - Performed by Nick Zinner

4. Rare Birds - Performed by Andrew Bird

5. Bobcats, Beetles, Owls - Written by Jane Hirshfield. Read by Jane Alexander

SIDE B

1. Diary - Performed by Juliette Commagere

2. Cuckoo - Performed by Sam Amidon

3. Sorrow Is Not My Name - Written by Ross Gay. Read by Suzan-Lori Parks

4. County Route 41 - Performed by Cassandra Jenkins

5. Birdsong - Performed by Steve Gunn

ALBUM #14

SIDE A

1. Bye Bye Birdy - Performed by Mark Mothersbaugh

2. The Sparrows of Butyrka - Written by Irena Ratushinskaya. Read by George Saunders

3. Alula - Performed by GEORGIA

4. Mourning Dove in Buoyancy - Performed by Haley Fohr feat. Rob Frye

5. The Ayaymama Bird - Performed by Elvis Perkins

6. Boy With a Headset - Written and read by Edward Hirsch

SIDE B

1. Wild Birds in an Imagined Canoga Park With Lakes and Trees in Place of Streets and Buildings - Performed by Carlos Niño & Nate Mercereau feat. Kamasi Washington

2. Intone - Performed by Midori Hirano

3. In Wiry Winter - Written by James Schuyler. Read by Graydon Carter

4. Avi Sinistra - Performed by ROB

5. Central Park - Performed by Doug Wieselman

6. Birdy - Performed by Daniel Blumberg & Billy Steiger

7. BIRDSLAND - Performed by Arturo O'Farrill

8. To This May - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Cazzie David

ALBUM #15

SIDE A

1. Aure, Deh, Per Piertà - Performed by Anthony Roth Costanzo

2. Hope Is a Thing With Feathers - Performed by Angela McCluskey & The Cantelon Ensemble

3. Coming - Written by Philip Larkin. Read by Sam Mendes

4. Many Worlds - Performed by Robert Ames

5. I Put on My Fur Coat - Written by Jane Wong. Read by Sofia Subercaseaux

6. Planeaciones - Performed by Angélica Negrón

SIDE B

1. Wingspan - Performed by Briana Marela

2. Poems - Written by Ruth Stone. Read by Edwina von Gal

3. Jacob Riis - Stuart Bogie and Domenica Fossati. Performed by Domenica Fossati

4. Used Beak - Performed by Craig Wedren

5. ‘sweet spring is your - Written by E. E. Cummings. Read by John Lithgow

6. Pettirosso - Daniele Luppi. Performed by Giacomo Bianchi

ALBUM #16

SIDE A

1. Voice & Birds - Performed by Anton Pearson (Squid)

2. Lies About Sea Creatures - Written by Ada Limón. Read by Olivia Wilde

3. The Owl of Cranston - Performed by Julian Lage & Bill Frisell

4. Tanager Time - Performed by Mac McCaughan

5. Montezuma Oropendola - Performed by Chris Watson

6. In the World - Written by Brigid Lowry. Read by Toni Collette

SIDE B

1. Tweetstorm - Performed by Chilly Gonzales

2. Abide - Written by Jake Adam York. Read by Jarvis Cocker

3. Keep Me Warm (Crèche) - Performed by Julia Holter

4. Migration - Performed by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

5. Kría - Performed by Jana Winderen

6. The Wild Geese - Written by Wendell Berry. Read by Michael Pollan

ALBUM #17

SIDE A

1. For the Robin on My Porch - Written by Andrea Potos. Read by Bette Midler

2. May Birds - Performed by Nico Muhly

3. Etude No. 2 (Thomas Bartlett remix) - Composed by Philip Glass. Performed by Maki Namekawa

4. Beginning - Written by W.S. Merwin. Read by Stephen Park

5. Passerine - Performed by Balmorhea

SIDE B

1. Here - Written by Kim Addonizio. Read by Odessa Young

2. Mourning Dove - Performed by Holland Andrews

3. One Heart - Written by Li-Young Lee. Read by Christiane Amanpour

4. Perched - Performed by Anna Clyne feat. Nathalie Joachim

5. Syrinx - Performed by Daniel Thorne

6. Toy Boat - Written and read by Ocean Vuong

ALBUM #18

SIDE A

1. I was popular in certain circles… - Written and read by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

2. Strange Signals From Jerry the Wood Pigeon - Performed by Peter Broderick

3. Birdbrain - Performed by David Van Tieghem

4. Ode to the Hummingbird - Written by Pablo Neruda. Read by Daryl Hannah

5. Bells and Birds - Performed by Alexandre Desplat

SIDE B

1. Skylarks & Magpies - Performed by Bibio

2. End-of-Summer Haibun - Written by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Read by Winslow Bright

3. Screech for Scratch - Performed by Annie Gosfield

4. Rørsanger - Performed by David Rothenberg and Benedicte Maurseth

5. Sandpiper - Written by Elizabeth Bishop. Read by Michael Keaton

6. Silver Horns - Performed by Sarah Davachi

ALBUM #19

SIDE A

1. An Exercise in Love- Written by Diane Di Prima. Read by Riley Keough

2. Brown Thrasher - Performed by Animal Collective

3. Chant for the Swinging Swallows - Performed by My Cat Is An Alien

4. Coast - Written by Alice Jones. Read by Grace Gummer

5. In Her Secret Garden - Performed by Julianna Barwick

6. emu808 - Performed by Sam Gendel

SIDE B

1. Now Is the Time - Performed by Money Mark

2. Cocoa Morning - Written by Bob Kaufman. Read by Adrien Brody

3. Calthra - Performed by Tommy Guerrero

4. Morning Rituals - Performed by Shabaka Hutchings feat. Esperanza Spalding

5. Redbird Love - Written and read by Joy Harjo

6. The Ruined Spring - Performed by Zander Schloss

ALBUM #20

SIDE A

1. I Love You Earth (Thomas Bartlett remix) - Performed by ANOHNI & YOKO ONO

2. Murmuration - Performed by Robert M Thomas x Daisy Chute

3. St Kevin and the Blackbird - Written by Seamus Heaney. Read by Liam Neeson

4. Thirow Dio - Performed by Mamadou Kelly

5. Grus Grus - Performed by Evan Parker & John Coxon

6. Star and Crescent - Written by Kenneth Rexroth. Read by Elliot Bergman

SIDE B

1. Mockingbird Song - Performed by Saunder Jurriaans & Danny Bensi

2. Morning Calls - Performed by Carter Burwell

3. [“Always in the distance”] - Written by Wendell Berry. Read by Randall Poster

4. [“The cherries turn ripe, ripe,”] - Written by Wendell Berry. Read by Lili Taylor

5. Serenade at 2 - Performed by Anne Müller

6. paired: unpaired - Music by Oliver Coates. Performed by Rosa Arnold and Jeanita Vriens of the Ragazze Quartet

7. Re: Happiness, in Pursuit Thereof - Written by C. D. Wright. Read by Hailey Benton Gates