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_____________________________________ AUSTRALIA Abercrombie Caves Trunkey Creek, New South Wales

PC-RE-PD1 Australia 2002

Lyrebirds at Abercombie Caves * Lyrebird – Nature Sounds – Cave Pic Label Prod. Co: Barry Cubitt; Eglington, New South Wales Photo: (Not credited) CD: LYREBIRDS AT ABERCROMBIE CAVES

(No Label or Catalog No.) Notes: A CD recording of the song of the Australian lyrebird around the Abercrombie Caves. Two vignette color photos are shown on the CD label. On the left is the wooden Goldminers Dance Platform in the Hall of Terpsichore just inside in the southeastern portion of the Southern Arch. On the right is a lyrebird in its stick nest resting on a small rock ledge possibly inside the cave entrance.

There’s a long history of dancing and concerts in the Hall of Terpsichore. “By 1854 gold mining was becoming established in the proximity of the caves… and the miners started to use the Arch as a regular meeting place. In 1860 a stage or dance platform was erected in the Arch located in the ‘Hall of Terpsichore’ and was used for many and varied social functions and meetings until the replacement by a more substantial structure in January 1880. This is still in use today for concerts, church services and occasional weddings.” (Cubitt & Keck 1991) Starting in 1985 until 1991 concerts were held here on a near yearly basis: entertainment consisted of brass bands, Jack Thompson (3 times), piano recital, and choral groups. (Cubitt & Keck 1991) For more information on this album see under Recordings of Bird Sounds near Cave – Australia. Ref: Abercrombie Caves, Data, Wikipedia Cubitt, Barry & Keck, Ken 1991, Abercrombie Caves Chronicles, Abercrombie Caves, Trunkey Creek, NSW, 59p. Cubitt, Barry 2015, Abercrombie Caves, Home site, abercrombiecaves

_____________________________________ Jenolan Caves Jenolan, New South Wales PC-RE-PD2 Australia 1987

LP: THE CAVE COMES ALIVE! Perf: The Lime Spiders (Rock) Prod. Co: Virgin Records (EMI Group) Label: (Picture disc) Virgin VOZ 2006x Artist: Cody Anderson Notes: This gatefold cover has a great deal of cave iconographic material. The front cover is a hodge-podge of garish artwork. The faces of the four members of this Australian rock group become part of different cave formations: two in profile on either side and two frontal masks incrusted into the middle of tall stalagmites in the middle of the cover. These two tapered stalagmites would seem to be repeated stylized facsimiles of the Minaret stalagmite in the River Cave at Jenolan Caves.

Blue stalactites hang from the top and several animals are scattered around the borders: (from the top edge clockwise) three spiders, a lizard, four frogs, a snake, a crab, and the head of a roussette bat. A record player sits on a stalagmite in front of the two central figures. The picture disc of this album reproduces in square shape within the round circle of the disc the same artwork from the original cover. This Australian garage-punk band was allegedly named after an Australian tropical drink. However, the meaning behind the album title remains a mystery. Did they give a concert in a cave in Australia or elsewhere? Well, they did give a concert at the Cave Club, Austin, Texas, on October 22, 1987. All the numbers on this album, except “Jessica,” were performed in Austin.

(Darren n.d.) So maybe that’s what the album title refers to. None of the numbers on this album are cave or bat-inspired. Ref: Darren n.d., Lime Spiders, Australian Independent Music Trade, 50webs Jenolan Caves, Official Site, jenolancaves The Lime Spiders, Bio, Wikipedia The Lime Spiders, The Cave Comes Alive, Picture Disc, Discogs

_____________________________________________________ CANADA Unidentified Canadian Cave PC-RE-PD3 Canada 2003 CD: IN TOO DEEP Perf: Dangerous Dick & The Duckbusters (Cave Ballads) Label: (No label & no catalog no.) Photo: (?)

Notes: The photo on the CD is a view looking straight down a forced conduit passage in an unidentified cave, which might be in a cave on Vancouver Island. Dangerous Dick and The Duckbusters are members of the Vancouver Island Cave Exploration Group (VICEG). Looks like it might just be a passage in Resonance Cave on Vancouver Island (see photo on left). For more information on the cave ballads recorded by this band see under World Music – Caving Ballads – Canada.

Ref: Dangerous Dick & The Duckbusters, Canadian Cave & Karst Information, cancaver.ca

Dangerous Dick & The Duckbusters, In Too Deep CD, CDBaby

_____________________________________________________ CHINA Moon-in-Water Cave Elephant Trunk Hill, Guilin PC-RE-PD4 China ca.2000 CD: GUILIN SHAN SHUI

Perf: 余亦五 YU Yiwo (Yu Yi Wu) (Contemporary)

Label: Meika MKJP-0003D Photo: (Color) (?) Notes: Elephant Trunk Hill is a major, much-visited landmark located at the confluence of the Peach Blossom River and the Li River, practically in the center of the city. It is considered so significant that it has become the symbol of the city, depicted as a logo on the labels of many commercial items such as local green tea and canned preserves. The “elephant trunk” is created by a cave remnant tunnel, called Moon-In-Water Cave, running through the north end of a tower karst hill. It can be reach by foot trails around the back end of the hill where there are two entrances; the large arched main tunnel entrance and a smaller phreatic tube, which breaks into the southwest wall of the tunnel. The tunnel itself is 25m long, 10m wide, and 12m high bearing northwest while the small side passage bearing north is 13m long and 2m in diameter. A shallow meter-wide water channel runs down the middle of the tunnel with ledges on either side. Inside and outside the cave are many stone inscriptions of poems by poets and painters of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD). Stone picnic tables and stools are set under a partially man-made overhang at the south base of the hill next to the cave, where musicians sometimes come and play. For more information on the cave-inspired music on this album see under Contemporary Art Music – Fusion. Ref: Brison, David N. 2008, Field Checking Some Chinese Cave Stamps, Speleophilately International, n. 83, Mar. 2008, p. 11-12 Elephant Trunk Hill, Description, Wikipedia Elephant Trunk Hill, Guilin, travelchinaguide

_____________________________________________________ FRANCE Grotte de Lascaux Montignac, Dordogne PC-RE-PD5 New Zealand 1999 CD: THE MAN WHO PAINTED CAVES Perf: David Antony Clark (New Age) Label: (New Zealand) White Cloud 11041 (Spain) Resistencia RESCD 102 Artist: (Prehistoric) Notes: A poor copy of the "Chinese Horse" (Cheval chinois) on the right (west) wall of the Axial Gallery. Many disfiguring errors have been made in this reproduction especially regarding the colors, the overall proportions, and the rendering of the horse's head, mane, forelegs, and tail. The only thing the copyist seems to have gotten right is the hind legs.

The simplified form of this horse was imprinted in faint pink six times, ringed around the center hole, on the compact disc itself. However, these six Paleolithic horses are printed so faintly on the metal surface of the CD that it was not possible to make a scan of the CD. For more information on the cave-inspired music recorded by David Clark see under New Age Music – Real Caves – France. Ref: David Antony Clark, The Man Who Painted Caves CD, Discogs Grotte de Lascaux, Description (in French), Wikipedia & (in English) Wikipedia Grotte de Lascaux, Virtual Visit of the Cave, Official site, culture.fr (◄VIDEO)

_____________________________________ Grotte des Trois Frères Montesquieu-Avantès, Ariège PC-RE-PD6 Spain 2001 CD: EL CANTO DE LAS PIEDRAS – LE CHANT DES PIERRES – SONG OF THE STONES Perf: Francois Claerhout et al. (Contemporary) Label: LCDPS 01 Photo: (Color) (?) Cover Design: Claire Guiral & Philippe Poirier Notes: One of the best negative handprints on the walls of this Paleolithic art cave was reversed and used for the cover design of this album. Other handprints from this cave were faintly reproduced on the back cover of the liner notes booklet. On the back cover of the liner notes booklet the Paleolithic engraving of the "dancing sorcerer" in the Grotte des Trois Frères (Ariège) playing a nasal flute is reproduced (in orange) in a montage which also shows negative hand prints from Cueva del Castillo, an engraved rhombus, and a scene of drapery formations and a stalagmite in an unidentified cave, possibly Grotte de Pech-Merle. This same figure of the dancing sorcerer is reproduced (in black) on the dark maroon label of the CD disc. For more information on the cave-inspired music on this album see under Contemporary Art Music – Speleolithophonic Music and also under Recorded in Natural Caves – France. Ref: El Canto de as piedras - Le Chant des pierres - Song Of The Stones CD, Review (in French), musearecords Grotte des Trois Frères, Description (in French), Wikipedia Grotte des Trois Frères, Site officiel (in French), cavernesduvolp

_____________________________________________________ INDONESIA – JAVA Goa Tabuhan Donorojo, Central Java PC-RE-PD7 United States 2005 CD: CAVE MUSIC Per: Angudilaras Seloargo (World) Label: Jonkey Enterprises (?) Photo: (Tinted) Chuck Jonkey Notes: The CD shows a blue-tinted view looking upward at some sunlit dried white stalactites in this cave entrance. A red stick figure running with a spear in his right hand (probably representing a prehistoric painting or engraving from some local site) is included on this CD. For more information on this album see under Recorded in Natural

Caves – Indonesia – Java. Ref: Goa Tabuhan, Indehnya Gamelan dalam Goa Tabuhan – Pacitan (4:08), YouTube (◄AUDIO-VIDEO)

Goa Tabuhan, Pacitan, Photos by Archiaston Musamma, pbase

_____________________________________________________ ITALY Grotte di Frasassi Genga, Ancona

PC-RE-PD8 Italy ca.1980s LP: FRASASSI – LE GROTTE IN CONCERTO Perf: Giancarlo Ragni (New Age) Label: Vallemaria (?) Photos: (?) Notes: This is a vinyl picture disc with a color photos imbedded into the vinyl on both sides showing speleothems in the world-class Italian show cave, Grotte di Frasassi (Grotta Grande del Vento). Side one shows the Cascata del Niagara (The Niagara Waterfall) flowstone cascade (located in the early section of the tour route) and side two shows the white column and other formations in the Sala 200 (located further along the tour route). Unquestionably the nicest, most spectacular cave picture disc ever released. It is worthy of framing and hanging on the wall, which is exactly what the British caver and bookseller, Tim Stratford, did for several years. Be forwarded this is a rare record, quite difficult to find. For more information on the cave-inspired music recorded by Giancarlo Ragni see under New Age Music –Italy. Ref: Grotte di Frassasi, Official Site (in Italian, English, French, et.), frassasi Grotte di Frassasi, Show Caves of the World, showcaves Stratford, Tim 2011, email dated Dec. 2011

_____________________________________ Grotte di Su Bentu * Su Palo, Elighes Arlas, Nuoro, Sardinia PC-RE-PD9 Italy 1997 CD: PERLE DI GROTTA Perf: Mariolina Zitta & Michela Fomiatti (Contemporary)

Label: MZ 087 Photo: (Color) Jacopo Merizzi Notes: The CD itself also has a color photo of Mariolina Zitta, dressed as in some of the other photos in this cave (shown in the booklet), tapping on a rimstone dams next to a rimstone pool. For more information on the cave-inspired music on this album see under Contemporary Art Music – Speleolithophonic Music and also under Recorded in Natural Caves – Italy. Ref: Anon. 2013, Grotte di Sa Oche Su Bentu e Grotta Corbeddu, (in Italian), ilportalesardo.it ASADM 2012, Grotta Su Bentu – Oliena, Caving photos in this cave, speleouras.it Gobetti, Andrea 1991, L’Italia in grotta, Gremese Editore, Roma, p. 111 Mariolina Zitta, Perle de grotto CD, Discogs

_____________________________________________________ LEBANON Grotte de Jeïta * Nahr el Kelb, Beyrouth PC-RE-PD10 France 1999 CD: BAYLE Vol. 13 – JEÎTA (includes JEÏTA-RETOUR) Perf: François Bayle (Contemporary) Liner Notes: (24-page booklet) F. Bayle, Gérard D. Khoury (poem), Georges Shéhadé, & Maurice Fleuret Label: Musidisc 248122 Photos: (Color) Sami Karkabi (Black & white) Sami Karkabi & Mamoug Notes: The label of the CD has a color shot of a formation room in the upper level of Jeita Cave where two pillars are on the left near the concrete walkway designed by the architect Ghassan Klink. For full information on the cave-inspired music on this album see under Contemporary Art Music – Musique Concrète – Jiêta 1 – & Speleolithophonic – Jiêta 2 and also under Recoded in Caves – Lebanon. Ref: Grotte de Jeita, Histoire et Description (in French), Wikipedia Grotte de Jeita, Home site, jeitagrotto Karkabi, Sami 1981, Grottes au Liban, Conseil National du Tourisme au Liban, Beyrouth Magharet Jeita (Jeita Grotto), Show Caves of the World, showcaves

_____________________________________________________ MEXICO Gruta de Cacahuamilpa Cacahuamilpa, Guerrero PC-RE-PD11 Mexico 1994 CD: GRUTAS Perf: Andrés Urrutia & Fernando Martínez del Campo (New Age) Label: Paraiso CDGLP 064 Photos: (Color)

Notes: The CD label shows a massive flowstone cascade and draperies somewhere in this famous Mexican show cave. Important classical and popular music concerts are frequently held in this cave in the room facing the Fuente Monumental (Monumental Fountain) formation. For more information on the cave-inspired music on this album see under New Age Music – Mexico. Ref: Anon. 2014, Fernando Martínez del Campo, Oriented CD, CDUniverse Grutas de Cacahuamilpa National Park, Data, (in Spanish) Wikipedia & (in English) Wikipedia Grutas de Cacahuamilpa, Sitio oficial, (in Spanish) conanp.gob.mx

_____________________________________________________ NEW ZEALAND Waitomo Glowworm Caves Waitomo Caves PC-RE-PD12 New Zealand 2001 CD: CAROLS IN THE CAVES Perf: Waitomo Caves Choir (Christmas) Prod. Co: AMCOS Label: (Label or Cat. No. Unknown) Photo: (Color) (?) Notes: The cover has a backlit close up of two nice calcite draperies in the Waitomo Caves. The second page of the 6-page foldout insert has a composite orange-tinted photo of ten members of the adult choir matted over the same photo of the draperies that was used on the cover. This composite photo is printed again on the disc itself. On the back page of the foldout is a photo of six members of the adult choir all dressed for a concert and holding candles, which would indicate that this photo was taken in the cave during a concert. For more information on this album see under Recorded in Natural Caves – New Zealand. Ref: Anon. 2013, Waitomo Glowworm Caves, Data, Wikipedia Waitomo Caves, Website, waitomo

_____________________________________________________ SPAIN Cuevas de Altamira Santillana del Mar, Cantabria PC-RE-PD13 Spain 1978 CD: GIBRA'ARA Label: Beringia BCD-002 Perf: Amarok (World & New Age) Photo: (?) Notes: The CD cover is one half of a foldout cover of the liner notes booklet. It shows several bisons in the central portion of the cave ceiling. This photo has been treated to give the polychrome bisons a purple hue. A negative simplified detail of the bison in the lower left of the cover photo was imprinted faintly on the label of the compact disc itself. However, bison is so indistinct on the metal surface of the CD that it was not possible to make a scan of the CD. For more information on the cave-inspired music on this album see under World Music – Spain – Catalan –and also under New Age Music – Spain. Ref: Amarok, Gibra’ara CD, progarchives Cueva de Altamira, Description (in Spanish) Wikipedia & (in English) Wikipedia

________________________________________________ PC-RE-PD14 Spain 2003 LP: CUEVAS DE ALTAMIRA Perf: IBIO (Rock) Label: Fonomusic 5046703312 Artist: Mario Gómez Calderón Notes: The label of the reissue CD reproduces a portion of the prehistoric cave entrance scene that appeared on the cover. It shows a rolling coastal plain under a clear starlit sky during one of the Quaternary interglacial periods. In the right foreground, there is a portion of a large cave entrance lit from within by firelight. A Paleolithic painting of a resting bison (a rough copy of the one in the Altamira Cave ceiling) can be seen on the cave wall. Outside in front of the cave are two prehistoric people, their backs turned to us. One squats and plays a flute while the other stands (on left) looking out to the sea and the snow-covered mountains in the distance. Actually the narrow entrance to the Altamira Cave does not in any way resemble this cave entrance and the polychrome paintings of the bulls are on the ceiling (not on the cave walls) located in a room a short distance from the entrance. But since the album title song here is wholly dedicated to the Altamira Cave it was considered appropriate to include this label art with real caves rather than imaginary caves. For more information about this album see under Rock Music – Progressive. Ref: Ibio, Cuevas de Altamira CD, Discogs

_____________________________________ Cueva del Valle Rasines, Cantabria PC-RE-PD15 Spain 2003 CD: SONIDO EN LA PENUMBRA Perf: Mario Gómez Calderón (Contemporary) Label: (No label) SA-57-2003 Artist: Mario Gómez Calderón, 2001 Notes: An idealized painting looking out of the black-silhouetted entrance of this cave to a blue night sky with stars and a crescent moon. An old caver holding a lantern stands next to his dog in the opening. The actual entrance ceiling with its spiky stalactites corresponds well with the ceiling here, but the floor area with its breakdown boulders and clay slope is a bit different from what is shown here. This painting was used for the posters advertising the first concert of the five-movement work of contemporary music, “Sonido en la Penumbra,” composed and performed by the Spanish caver, Mario Gómez Calderón, in the Cueva de la Cullalvera (Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria) on August 25, 2001. In the summer of the following year this musical program (using the same poster) was again performed in the woods not far from the Puente del Diablo (Santander, Cantabria) on July 21 and in the woods outside the entrance of Cueva del Valle (Rasines, Cantabria) on August 17. This CD cover painting was also used on the CD itself. For more information on the cave-inspired music on this album see under Contemporary Art Music – Electronic. Ref: Cueva del Valle, Data (in Spanish), cantabriatouristica.es Gómez Calderón, Mario, Personal communication, May 11, 2002, Santander Parque Paleolítico de la Cueva del Valle, saposyprincesas

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Puente del Diablo, etc. Santander, Cantabria PC-RE-PD16 Spain 2006 CD: EL REĠRESO Perf: Ibio (Rock) Label: 1. Artimaña AR 0030 Audio Multicanal 5.1 2. Artimaña AR 0030 Audio Estéreo Notes: This elaborate montage of overlapping vignettes of different unusual sites (lugares insólitos) in the Cantabrian region of northwestern Spain was originally painted to be used to illustrate the five-movement work of contemporary music, “Sonido en la Penumbra,” by the Spanish caver Mario Gómez Calderón. The subtitle of this work is" Sonido de momentos y lugares insolitos" (Sound of Unusual Moments and Places). This painting shows many historic sites, caves, and other natural sites in Cantabria; most of these are real

but some are imagined fantasy places. Only the cave related sites will be identified here. Moving counterclockwise from the top left: Puente del Diablo (natural bridge) at Santander; the Arroyuelos cave chapel near San Martin de Elines in the southern part of the province; an imaginary pioneer caver with lantern exiting a pit; a littoral cave at Faro del Caballo (lighthouse) at Santoña; the interior of an imaginary Paleolithic art cave where a pioneer caver and his dog admire the paintings while a modern caver negotiates a crawlway (upper right) (detail shown on left); a woods where an old expedition searched for a cave; and the pit submergence of the Sel de la

Fuente in the Sierra de Peña Labra. The central portion of the painting shows an imaginary arched cave entrance with red firelight shinning out; the Cadalso cave chapel near San Martin de Elines; and a dog watching bright light shining out of an imaginary pit. The labels of both CDs carry reproductions of the full poster of vignettes: dark purple-tinted on the multichannel CD and dark blue-tinted on the stereo CD (see under Picture Discs). For further information about the cave-inspired music on this album see under Rock Music – Progressive. Ref: Gómez Calderón, Mario 2002, Letter dated July 22, 2002, Santander Gómez Calderón, Mario 2007, Donation of this CD Ibio (banda), (in Spanish), Wikipedia Ibio, El regreso CD, progarchives

_____________________________________________________ UNITED KINGDOM Unidentified British Cave PC-RE-PD17 United Kingdom ca. 2005 CD: SPELEOGENESIS Perf: Nomusic & Gary Poole (Film) Label: (No label or catalog no.) Photo: (?) Notes: This album has the film music for Sid Perou’s celebrated documentary. The CD has a macro photo of the tip of a soda straw stalactite where the drop of water is suspended ready to drop. The

stalactite could be almost anywhere in England, but is most likely in Yorkshire where Sid made most of his films. This was the same motif used for the opening title shots of the film. For more information on the cave-inspired music on this album see under Film Music – Documentary. Ref: NoMusic & Lindsay Dodd, Speleogenesis CD, Discogs Mills, Martin 1986, Caves in Music, Shepton Mallet Caving Club Journal, v. 8, n. 1, 1986, p. 26 Sid Perou & Lindsay Dodd, Speleogenesis, British Caving Library, caving-library Sid Perou, Speleogenesis, Questions & Answers, ukcaving

_____________________________________________________ UNITED STATES Lost River Caverns Hellertown, Pennsylvania PC-RE-PD18 United States 2005 CD: LOST RIVER CAVERNS – “LOST CAVE” Perf: Daybreak (World) Label: Daybreak 1345 Photos: (Black & White) (?) Notes: The cover photo used a photo of the musicians, dressed in period outfits, and laid it over an old photo of the main office building taken in 1948. The back cover and the CD label show two different old photos of people going into the cave entrance building while nearby stands a 1930s-style boxy truck with the old name of the cave, “Lost Cave,” painted on its side. For more information on the cave-inspired music on this album see under World Music – United States and also under Recorded in Natural Caves – United States. Ref: Anon. 2012, Daybreak, The Lost River Sessions & Photos, daybreakfolk Daybreak, Lost River Caverns CD, CDBaby Duckeck, Jochen 2011, Lost River Caverns, ShowCaves Lost River Caverns, Home Site, lostcave

_____________________________________ Luray Caverns Luray, Virginia PC-RE-PD19 United States 2001 CD: MIDNIGHT AT THE CAVERNS WITH MONTE MAXWELL Perf: Monte Maxwell (Classical & Popular) Label: Monte Maxwell (No Catalog number) Illus: (Black & White) (?) Notes: The CD label itself has a reproduction in negative of the same stylized cave formation illustration as seen on the logo (on the inner foldout panel), but without the man with the lit torch. See also in the section here under Cave Picture Covers – United States – Luray Caverns and under Recorded in Natural Caves – United States. Ref: Anon. 2012, The Great Stalacpipe Organ, Wikipedia Monte Maxwell, Midnight in the Caverns CD, Allmusic

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UNIDENTIFIED CAVES Unidentified Cave No. 1 PC-RE-PD20 United Kingdom 1982 Perf: Spandau Ballet (Rock) Label: Chrysalis CDLP 1353 Prod. Co: Chrysalis Ltd.; London Photo: (Color) Andy Earl Notes: Side one of this 12 inch picture disc has this band of five dressed in winter coats standing in a cave passage with snow-white ice (or gypsum?) crystal clusters completely covering the ceiling above them. The side two photo was taken in the same passage and shows just the lead singer, Tony Hadley, looking back at the camera over the coat collar of his left shoulder. It is not known where this cave is located. Ref: Diamond (Spandau Ballet album), Wikipedia Kraus, Dieter & Sturm, Michael 1987, Aufstellung der Schallplatten, deren Hüllen Hölenmotive tragen, Jahesbericht der Höhlenforshergruppe Rhein-Main, n. 9, Jan. 1988, Frankfort am Main, p. 45 Spandau Ballet, Diamond LP, Picture Disc, Discogs

_____________________________________________________ Unidentified Cave No. 2 PC-RE-PD21 United States 2000 CD: LOST CAVERNS OF THERA Perf: Brannon Lane (New age) Prod. Co: World Circle Records; Clarksville, TN Label: World Circle 802 Photo: (Black & White) Notes: A black & white reproduction of the color photo of a drapery covered wall that was used on the back page of the liner notes folder was printed on the CD label itself. This picture disc label does not reproduce well. This art work can be seen on the Discogs Website. For information about the 5 cave-inspired music selections on this album see under New Age Music – United States – Gate to M – Lost Caverns of Thera. Ref: Brannon Lane, Lost Caverns of Thera CD, CDBaby Brannon Lane, Lost Caverns of Thera CD, Discogs

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