For The Birds: The Birdsong Project

Deluxe 20-LP box set available now

FOR THE BIRDS

For the Birds: The Birdsong Project is a collection of 172 pieces of new music inspired by the beauty of birdsong, performed by artists from across the musical spectrum. Comprised of 20 LPs, each with original cover art, this deluxe box set also features 73 works of bird-inspired poetry, read by familiar and famous voices. The collection comes beautifully framed by the original artwork of painter and naturalist John James Audubon, from his seminal work: Birds of America.

Accompanying the 20 LPs is a 60-page companion piece, which includes a foreword by Randall Poster, essays by Jonathan Meiburg, Kathleen Moore, and David Rothenberg, and a list of must-read books for bird lovers from novelist and ornithophile, Jonathan Franzen.

See the full list of creative contributors here.

Proceeds from For the Birds: The Birdsong Project benefit The National Audubon Society.

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Musical Artists

A. G. Cook and Alaska Reid
Adam Green
Adrock
Alex Somers
Alexandre Desplat
Alice Coltrane
Andrew Bird
Andrew Wyatt
Angela McCluskey & The Cantelon Ensemble
Angélica Negrón
Animal Collective
Anna Clyne feat. Nathalie Joachim
Anne Müller
Annie Gosfield
ANOHNI & YOKO ONO
Anthony Roth Costanzo
Anton Pearson (Squid)
Arthur Jeffes
Arturo O’Farrill
Aska Matsumiya
Balmorhea
Beach House
Beck
Ben Lukas Boysen
Bibio
Blake Mills
Briana Marela
Buzzy Lee
Calexico
Carla dal Forno
Carlos Niño & Nate Mercereau feat. Kamasi Washington
Carter Burwell
Cassandra Jenkins
Cecile Believe
Chilly Gonzales
Chris Watson
Claude Fontaine
Cosmo Sheldrake
Craig Wedren
CUP (Yuka C. Honda & Nels Cline)
Dan Deacon
Daniel Blumberg & Billy Steiger
Daniel Lanois
Daniel Thorne
Daniele Luppi (Performed by Giacomo Bianchi)
Darius Christian & Reginald Chapman
David Rothenberg and Benedicte Maurseth
David Van Tieghem
Devendra Banhart
Dexter Story
Doug Wieselman
Douglas Dare feat. EERA
Ebe Oke
El Búho (feat. Emilie Basez)
Eleanor Friedberger
Elliot Bergman
Eluvium

Elvis Costello
Elvis Perkins
Emile Haynie
Emily Cross
Evan Parker & John Coxon
Ganavya
GEORGIA
Girlpool
Gyða Valtýsdóttir
Haley Fohr feat. Rob Frye
Hania Rani
Hatis Noit
Hawley & LOZAC’H
Hidden Orchestra & Tim Southorn
Holland Andrews
Inara George and Van Dyke Parks
Isabella Summers
James McAlister
Jana Winderen
Jarvis Cocker
Jeff Tweedy
Jim James
Joachim Cooder
John Cale
Josh Kaufman feat. Annie Nero
Julia Holter
Julian Lage & Bill Frisell
Julianna Barwick
Juliette Commagere
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Kaoru Watanabe
Karen Elson
Karen O
Koa Kalish
Koreless
Kurt Vile
L’Rain & Atlas Sound
Laurie Anderson
Le Ren
Lee Ranaldo (lyrics by Michael McClure)
Loudon Wainwright III
Mac McCaughan
Makaya McCraven
Mamadou Kelly
Marcelo Zarvos
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mulcahy
Mark Ronson feat. Damon Albarn & Wale
Mary Lattimore
Masayoshi Fujita
Meara O’Reilly
Meg Baird
Michael Penn
Michael Rother & Vittoria Maccabruni
Michael Uzowuru
Midori Hirano
Mike Campbell
Molly Lewis
Money Mark
My Cat Is An Alien

Natalie Bergman
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Nick Rhodes & Wendy Bevan
Nick Zinner
Nico Muhly
Oliver Coates
(Performed by Rosa Arnold and Jeanita Vriens of the Ragazze Quartet)
Olivia Chaney
Paul Cantelon
Peter Broderick
Philip Glass (Performed by Maki Namekawa)
Poppy Ackroyd
Ramesh & Jason Chronis
Ray Young Bear
Rayna Gellert
Richard Reed Parry
Rita Dove
ROB
Robert Ames
Robert M Thomas x Daisy Chute
Roddy Bottum
Rudresh Mahanthappa
Sam Amidon
Sam Gendel
Sam Prekop
Sarah Davachi
Saunder Jurriaans & Danny Bensi
Seu Jorge & Flor
Shabaka Hutchings feat. Esperanza Spalding
Shearwater
Siddhartha Khosla
Spring Summer
SQÜRL
Stella Donnelly
Stephin Merritt
Steve Gunn
Stuart Bogie
Stuart Bogie and Domenica Fossati
(Performed by Domenica Fossati)
Suzzy Roche
Tawiah
Terry Riley
The Album Leaf
The Flaming Lips
The Haden Triplets
Thomas Bartlett
Thurston Moore & Wobbly
Tommy Guerrero
Tyondai Braxton
UNKLE
Uwade
Vanbur
Very Nice Person
Vince Giordano And The Nighthawks
Woodkid
Wyldest
Yo-Yo Ma
Zander Schloss

Poetry Readers

Adrien Brody
Alice Waters
Ann Beattie
Antonio Campos
Bette Midler
Bob Balaban
Bobby Cannavale
Brady Corbet
Cazzie David
Chelsie Diane
Christiane Amanpour
Conor Oberst
Danielle Haim
Daryl Hannah
David Cale
Donald Ray Pollock
Edward Hirsch
Edwina von Gal
Elliot Bergman
Florence Welch
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
George Saunders
Grace Gummer
Graydon Carter

Greta Gerwig
Hailey Benton Gates
Jack Kornfield
Jane Alexander
Jarvis Cocker
Jason Schwartzman
Jeff Goldblum
Jelani Cobb
John Burnham Schwartz
John Lithgow
Jonathan Franzen
Jorie Graham
Joy Harjo
Larry Ratso Sloman
Liam Neeson
Lili Taylor
Lorrie Moore
Matthew McConaughey
Michael Keaton
Michael Pollan
Michelle Williams
Mickey Sumner
Molly Rosen
Nana Mensah

Natalie Bergman
Natasha Lyonne
Ocean Vuong
Odessa Young
Olivia Wilde
Randall Poster
Regina King
Riley Keough
Rita Dove
Robert Pattinson
Sam Mendes
Sandor Katz
Sean Penn
Sofia Subercaseaux
Stephen Park
Suzan-Lori Parks
Tilda Swinton
Tim Blake Nelson
Toni Collette
Victoria Legrand
Wally Wolodarsky
Wendell Pierce
Winslow Bright

Poets

Ada Limón
Adam Zagajewski
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Alex Dimitrov
Alice Jones
Allen Ginsberg
Andrea Potos
Anne Sexton
Billy Collins
Bob Kaufman
Brigid Lowry
C. D. Wright
David Cale
Diane Di Prima
E. E. Cummings
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edward Hirsch
Elizabeth Bishop

Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Galway Kinnell
Gary Snyder
Gregory Orr
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Irena Ratushinskaya
Jake Alan York
James Schuyler
Jane Hirshfield
Jane Wong
Jim Harrison
John Kelly
Jonathan Franzen
Jorie Graham
Joy Harjo
Kenneth Rexroth
Kim Addonizio
Li-Young Lee

Linda Gregg
Maggie Smith
Mary Oliver
Norman MacCaig
Ocean Vuong
Pablo Neruda
Philip Larkin
Raymond Carver
Rita Dove
Ross Gay
Ruth Stone
Saoirse Stice
Seamus Heaney
Shel Silverstein
W. S. Merwin
Wendell Berry
William Carlos Williams