NATURE SOUNDS

Bringing Nature Sounds within Reach

Between 2005 and 2015, Grant Mackay embarked on several adventures into the deepest and most remote corners to record exclusively Canadian wilderness and nature sounds using his field recorder and microphones. Throughout those years, his travels had taken him to some of the farthest reaches of wilderness in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

Discography

Grant’s Albums Include:
Grant Mackay’s discography of pure nature sounds is available as limited-edition CDRs on his own website, Amazon, eBay, and Discogs and can be purchased via iTunes and Bandcamp. Additionally, they are available for streaming on Spotify and Apple Music and can be heard via satellite on Stingray Music (Canada). Many of his nature albums offer exquisite and relaxing interludes that are perfect when you want to connect with the natural world.
  • Frog Power
  • Lakeside Savannah
  • Point Petre
  • Puzzle Lake Paradise
  • The Forest Marsh
  • The Wildlands
Lakeside Savannah

Lakeside Savannah: Nature Sounds from Point Petre (Deluxe Edition)

Grant Mackay’s 2023 re-mastered, “LAKESIDE SAVANNAH (DELUXE EDITION),” is a tour-de-force of nature that sounds audio realism. It captures the day and nighttime bird and wildlife sounds of various environments from the Point Petre Nature Preserve, a remote wilderness located on the southernmost tip of the island of Prince Edward County in Ontario.

In this recording, you can listen to the wave sounds from the limestone rock shores on its western reaches; the midnight sounds of crickets, peeper frogs, and aquatic birds of its interior blue heron rookery; and the sounds of kingfishers, terns, and seagulls that inhabit the southern shores of its gull bar.

Lakeside Savannah

Lakeside Savannah: Nature Sounds from Point Petre (2023 Deluxe "Numbered" Edition)

Grant Mackay’s 2023 re-mastered, “LAKESIDE SAVANNAH (DELUXE EDITION),” is a tour-de-force of nature sounds and audio realism. It captures the day and nighttime bird and wildlife sounds of various environments from the Point Petre Nature Preserve, a remote wilderness located on the southernmost tip of the island of Prince Edward County in Ontario.

Specially remastered in 2022 to hi-fidelity, audiophile quality by the artist and this deluxe edition includes a rare, unreleased bonus track!

In this recording, you can listen to the wave sounds from the limestone rock shores on its western reaches; the midnight sounds of crickets, peeper frogs, and aquatic birds of its interior blue heron rookery; and the sounds of kingfishers, terns, and seagulls that inhabit the southern shores of its gull bar.

“The clarity, detail, and sense of distance of these recordings are stunning. Of all the environmental soundscapes I’ve heard, this is one of the more “I feel like I am actually there” ones. And the packaging is superb as always! Thanks again, it’s absolutely wonderful!”

-Tim Clement, Composer.

 

“…the clarity of the recordings is superb… It resonates with me…” -Rob Stimpson, Wilderness Photographer, Rob Stimpson Photography 

 

“The Savannah disc is crisp and clear as if nature were itself in the living room.” -Beck H., Music Aficionado.

“You can feel the power of the waves as they crash upon the shore…I love the frog sounds…the sound is so clear…sparkling!”

– Ann B., Bass Guitarist and Fellow Musician

Now available exclusively in a Deluxe-packaged, “numbered” limited-edition CDr on my Amazon.ca and eBay.ca stores. To order direct from the artist, call: (416) 578-5560.

Forest Marsh

The Forest Marsh: Birdsongs & Bull Frogs at Dawn (2022 Limited Edition CDr Reissue)

The location for this recording was discovered by accident. Grant Mackay happened upon a forested marsh deep in a hidden valley among the rolling, pastoral farmland hills while driving the “dangerous and unmaintained” roads of Northumberland County in his 4WD. He was immediately struck by how such a wild place, not far from his country home in the village of Camborne, could be so close and yet be within our midst.

Shortly after discovering the place, Grant came back to capture the sounds of bullfrogs and birdsongs of The Forest Marsh awakening at dawn. This real-time recording offers a close experience of actually being there.

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Wilderness

The Wildlands (2021 Limited Edition CDr Reissue)

This album offers a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the raw beauty and mystery of some of Canada’s untamed regions. Gathered from different wilderness tracts that are hundreds of miles apart, these recordings take you to the wildlands just beyond civilization. They even go deeper into the undiscovered wild. Recorded in Ontario and Quebec, this album features three distinct regions: Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park in South Central Ontario, Hastings County in Eastern Ontario, and Kipawa in Central Quebec.

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Body Of Water

Point Petre: A Birder's Paradise (2021 Limited Edition CDr Reissue)

Located on the southernmost tip of Prince Edward County in Ontario, Point Petre is a huge tract of land that is home to over 337 species of aquatic and land birds. It also has one of the largest great blue heron rookeries in Ontario. The Point Petre Nature Preserve is diverse, wild, and pristine. It boasts a vast sea-like shoreline of the Great Lake Ontario with limestone beaches and gull bar, savannah-like plains containing original old-growth trees and a significant deer population, and large lagoons and marshes.
Point Petre is an album that captures the day and nighttime bird sounds of the different environments of this wilderness location. This album also contains birdcalls from many other species of birds.

Featured Birdsongs and Bird Sounds:
  • Canada Geese
  • Great Blue Herons
  • Kingfisher
  • Mourning Doves
  • Red Wing Blackbirds
  • Seagulls
  • Terns
  • Woodpeckers

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Frog In The Water

Frog Power (2017 Limited Edition CDr Reissue)

This album features the “power” of the frog. It begins with a single frog and gradually builds to a chorus of hundreds of frogs chanting in the final title track, “Frog Power.” This extensive collection is captured from Canadian wilderness regions that span nearly a thousand miles from North to South and was recorded over several seasons.

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Lake

Puzzle Lake Paradise (2015 Special Digipack Edition)

This album features the “power” of the frog. It begins with a single frog and gradually builds to a chorus of hundreds of frogs chanting in the final title track, “Frog Power.” This extensive collection is captured from Canadian wilderness regions that span nearly a thousand miles from North to South and was recorded over several seasons.

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Myriad Benefits

Grant Mackay’s nature sound albums let you enjoy enhanced peace and wellness when you use them as your quiet time, meditation, or yoga soundtrack. The sounds and vibrations of nature will even out your breathing, harmonize your body, and help you become more relaxed.