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Blood on the Trail

"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change."
 - Leon C. Megginson
"Never underestimate the latent power of nature. Often when she is most beautiful she is also most dangerous to those who fail to pay attention. "
 - Rich Hungerford, Survival Wisdom

written and recorded - July 2018
© Richard Coffey - All Rights Reserved
Blood on a Trail
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Blood on the Trail

While exploring the woods, it’s very infrequent but enormously disturbing finding blood on the trail. Was it a predator/prey encounter or perhaps something more sinister?

If you can imagine this scenario a couple of hundred years back, the implication might be a human skirmish rather than nature’s natural selection process...

Music
This soundscape features a string quartet and assorted percussion. Harmony is primarily quartal rather than a more traditional triadic. "After a long-drawn-out violent struggle, the forest once again returns to a calm stillness..."