Soundtrack of a wintering on Campbell Island:
Two friends set meteorologist Peter
Fisher's personal overwintering experience to music with the album "Life on Sub-Antarctic Cambell Island - The Weather Station Years".
In the mid 1980s, a walking tour by the Campbell Island station meteorologist.
Two friends set meteorologist Peter Fisher's personal wintering experience to music with the album Life on Sub-Antarctic Campbell Island - The Weather Station Years.
The Music:
"It's as if this music draws Campbell Island, its floral explosions, its animals... a beauty that very few people have had the privilege of observing over a long period of time," explains New Zealand meteorologist Peter Fisher in an interview with Polar Journal.
The music? It's from the album Life on Sub-Antarctic Campbell Island - The Weather Station Years, released at the end of April. Twenty-three tracks by New Zealand musician Tony Parker with a road-movie rock sound. These two friends had known each other for a long time when they decided to produce a music project three years ago, they decided to co-produce the musical project.
Tony Parker has never been to Campbell, unlike Peter Fisher, who overwintered between 1994 and 1995 while on assignment for MetService, the equivalent of the National Weather Service. "I put myself in Peter's shoes, and he's a mine of information, in addition to his experience," says the musician. This world isn't completely foreign to him either. When Peter Fisher overwintered, Tony Parker would send him mail parachuted onto the island by the air force, and they had a few conversations by radiotelephone.
By: Camille Lin, Polar Journal AG
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