Parks Canada ad from 1984

[Macfuk]

Prince Albert National Park.


fnarr fnarr

[Mr?]

Beautiful <3

[Fireal420]

i love the dual melodies being played in the background music. they bounce off of eachother which creates a bipolarity in the sound, making the track sound childlike and innocent yet extremely dark all at the same time.

[thinkdontpray]

I really feel as if I'm doubling dipping here by bumping my own thread twice now but I was hoping one of you fine talented folks out there could do something with this track, it just screams remix to me

Side note, I made it to Point Pelee to catch the monarch migration and I was absolutely floored as it's something I've never seen first hand. Of course I also had this little ditty playing on a loop while I was out there. I love music, a lot, but it's very rare to find music that moves me like BoC does....this song has that exact same effect for me. It's truly amazing how music can sound fixed firmly in a year or a decade however still sound absolutely timeless.

Sorry I may be a little inhebriated ATM so forgive my waxing poetic nonsense

[d e n]

can you talk more about the monarch migration?

where is Point Pelee?

[xxtazy]

This tune is amazing, thank you for sharing it. It kind of feels strange to hear the music that inspired BoC

[thinkdontpray]

Well heres a blast from the past. I've been having a really rough time lately and I've been distracting myself with this forum and the wealth of love and knowledge contained within.

This beautiful little vignette has soothed my soul lately and I felt the need to reach out to all you beautiful folks and wish you all the best. We've never met and yet we share a deep bond.

Oh and don't mind me I'm just a little baked right now. Hope every one of you is having a beauty summer.

[747Music]

Well heres a blast from the past. I've been having a really rough time lately and I've been distracting myself with this forum and the wealth of love and knowledge contained within.

This beautiful little vignette has soothed my soul lately and I felt the need to reach out to all you beautiful folks and wish you all the best. We've never met and yet we share a deep bond.

Oh and don't mind me I'm just a little baked right now. Hope every one of you is having a beauty summer.

I'm having a wonderful summer, thank you. Sorry to hear you're having a really rough time. I'm familiar with such things. All the best to you. I hope things get better for you soon.

As a long time lover of Ontario nature, including seeing the monarch migration in Point Pelee as well, I've been making music as an ode to it. And as a fan of Parks Canada I made this video:



I will be making a wildlife documentary as if it was done in the late 80s. The gear I will use won't be from past that point. It will be in the spirit of Canadian documentaries from that time, with my own spices added. Things are set up quite well as my father is a wildlife biologist and ecologist for the MNR. So, I have access to all the information I need, along with an enthusiastic approach to a topic of interest, along with my own ability to make music and edit video. The only thing that is limiting me is getting a hold of a 16mm or super8 camera to shoot with. Not to mention getting the film developed. So the project will be a long time coming, but it is something that I WILL do.

[thinkdontpray]

Dude that tune is incredible! I would absolutely watch the shit out of that documentary. Whereabouts in Ontario are you? I'm just a little east of Toronto.

Im heading up to Algonquin tomorrow for a week and it couldn't come at a better time personally. That place is a second home to me and of course I'll be rocking some BoC while I'm there. Nature plus BoC is exactly what the doctor ordered.

Thanks for the kind words brother, I really appreciate you reaching out.

[Jinjur]

Man o man...............if they made adverts like that now I would watch them

Never seen the advert..........I live in shitty Northern Ireland so most of our adverts were..........well............shit. But that STILL makes me feel like a kid all over again.

Can we make a name for the feeling that an advert like this gives you? Nostalgia doesn't cut it.

<3

[747Music]

Dude that tune is incredible! I would absolutely watch the shit out of that documentary. Whereabouts in Ontario are you? I'm just a little east of Toronto.

Im heading up to Algonquin tomorrow for a week and it couldn't come at a better time personally. That place is a second home to me and of course I'll be rocking some BoC while I'm there. Nature plus BoC is exactly what the doctor ordered.

Thanks for the kind words brother, I really appreciate you reaching out.

Thank you. I really ought to finish that song.

I'm west of Ottawa, not far at all from the north end of Algonquin Park.

I'll listen to BoC out there a bunch, but more and more lately I've been leaving the headphones out and listening to nature. Nothing beats the sound of the wind in the trees, the babbling of water, birds singing to each other, and the comfort of having my hearing available for the advent of a possible bear attack.

Have fun out there. Hopefully the fire ban is off and the forest fires are cleared up. Stay safe.

[thinkdontpray]

What a glorious week it was up there. Just what I needed to recharge and refocus. The fire ban was still on up until this past Friday so we got to have two fires at least. Something magical about listening to BoC around a campfire in a dead quiet forest while loons mournful call a echoed across the lake. Good call on the bear awareness for sure. I have a vivid memory of an incident that happened in the mid to late 80's when a couple of kid were fishing near some rapids in the park and didn't hear the bear sneak up behind them. I believe both were killed and later when the bear was found and shot there were remains inside. Reason why that story resonates so much with me is that as a threat (jokingly I hope) my dad would say if we didn't behave he would take us out to those rapids. What a morbid dick my father is, god love him haha

Jinjur - you're absolutely right when you say nostalgia doesn't quite encapsulates the feeling. I've been trying to find the word to describe it but have come up empty. Nostalgia is a broad term and I normally relate it to fond thoughts of something you experienced in your younger life. However music like BoC and that Alan Clavier piece from the parks advert conjures up a type of nostalgia that I don't have an exact or any memory of at all. It's as if it causes your brain to create false memories or feelings of things you've never actually experienced. Similar to how some love songs (like You Won't Remember by Bibio) causes me to think of past lives but the song lyrics themselves don't represent anything that had ever happened to me exactly. The human mind is truly bizarre sometimes.

[thinkdontpray]

Couple more pictures from the park

[polarbear]

Couple more pictures from the park

[thinkdontpray]

Why the long face friend?

[playbyletters]

What a wholesome thread. Loving the pics, thinkdontpray. Listened to the Parks Canada ad for the first time yesterday and it gave me chills, incredibly beautiful and haunting track.

There's a strange emotional intensity that makes it almost difficult to listen to. It's the exact same feeling the Duffy excerpt gives me. Something about the power of the music combined with its scarcity, near loss, these VHS rips are all we have, this short RealMedia audio file is all we have.

[747Music]

Beautiful pictures, ThinkDontPray.

I know just what you mean about the music inspiring vague or even false memories. I've described listening to BoC to friends as music that played all the time during my childhood that I've never heard before.

Most of BoC's music to me feels like the time I did mushrooms and went for a walk through a park, by a river, through some forested area and realized that everything I was experiencing right then and there was a dream I had when I was 6 years old. Every detail was exactly the same. Even now, I can recall that dream. I love that dream and have told people about it before that psychedelic experience. So I know the dream wasn't at least entirely fabricated during the experience. It's very eerie, and yet comforting and incredible how close the experience was. All the sounds in BoC's music has that quality to it. I grew up hearing the sounds in their music in all sorts of different places. From old TV reruns of Sesame Street, to NFB films and docs, and old educational films on science, to all sorts and kinds of fantastic music from the 60s, 70s, 80s (thanks mom), to odd b-movies played on late-night TV, etc... BoC just had the fantastic mind to put these sounds together into a brilliant collection of music that I immediately connected with. Because of this, I really do not see how they can ever step down from spot #1 in my list of favourite artists.

[s7409651]

Oh this is gorgeous