Your Favourite London Sounds
2001 studio album by Peter Cusack / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Your Favourite London Sounds is an album compiled by English musician Peter Cusack and released in November 2001 by the London Musicians Collective (LMC). It collects 40 field recordings of sounds around the English city of London, most of which were recorded by Cusack. The project originated when the LMC hosted a temporary radio station for the 1998 Meltdown Festival, which Cusack used to ask festival goers and listeners what their favourite 'London sound' was. He received hundreds of responses, many of which were varied and often personal.
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Released | November 2001 | |||
Recorded | London, England | |||
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Length | 73:46 | |||
Label | London Musicians Collective | |||
Compiler | Peter Cusack | |||
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The sounds on the recording are highly diverse and vary between outdoor and indoor sounds, some of which are famous and some of which are more atypical. Several sounds are specific to London while others are broader. On release, the album received critical acclaim, including being named the week's best CD by The Guardian, and inspired radio and newspaper commentary. Cusack commented that it received more attention than his musical work. Ultimately, the London project was the first in Cusack's larger Favourite Sounds Project, which visited other cities across the world.