Whose Forest?

This is a protest CD. The artists and supporters who have come together here are opposing a process dubbed “Lands for Life” – a feel-good name, created by the Ontario Conservative government, designating vast tracks of publicly-owned forests, which Mike Harris and the Tories will legally re-define and re-allocate by June 1998. If the Tories get their way, they will likely hand over, irrevocably some 90% of your forests to clearcut logging interests, and, they will give over the powers of forest regulation to the forest industry. Not unlike letting the fox guard the hen house.

-CD liner notes

This CD contains World Music, Classical, 20th-century, ambient, new age and jazz music.

OLIVER SCHROER

1. Earth Logic

TOM WALSH, Words by MICHAEL ONDAATJE

2. desert dog

RICHARD WINDEYER

3. Postcard From Oxbow Lake

SARAH PEEBLES

4. Blue Moon Spirit

WENDE BARTLEY

5. Sparkling Crystal Moistness

THE KAVKASIA TRIO, traditional

6. Shen Khar Venakhi (Gurian version)

TIAN-HUA LIU

7. Song of Sadness

WANG ZHENG TING

8. The Water Festival

WILLIAM CAHN

9. The Birds

SARAH PEEBLES/NILAN PERERA

10. Insect Groove

ROBERT CRUIKSHANK

11. And so Fir Fell…

LORI FREEDMAN

12. Four Ways Home

CLUTTON/PERERA/LENNARD (aka Handslang)

13. Silent Witness