It grows on you. This double album, from the original television soundtrack composed by Benjamin Merrison and Will Slater, is my favourite when I want to settle down to a session of drawing plants (or any other subject else for that matter) as it flows so organically, like the impressive time-lapse sequences in the Green Planet television series.
But it stands on its own too; I like the lightness of touch; it’s not too ponderous but it does evoke the sense of wonder that you get from being in green spaces and observing nature. It’s good on plants behaving badly too – strangler vines*, I’m thinking of you! – described with humour and sometimes a sense of impending menace in the music.
I’m looking forward to revisiting the series to see how the now-familiar music fits with the sequences.
* Looking at the tracks list, I’m not sure that the notorious strangler fig actually makes an appearance but the tracks on cholla buds and ancestral grasses have a similar thrusting dynamic about them.