Hummingbird - Glade (2016)

Hummingbird connects a chain of seemingly disparate artists, from Primevère to Sir William Jardine (author of The Naturalist’s Library) to Neruda, all inspired by the flittering bird with the fast-beating heart. By choosing to pattern this release after its namesake, Fluid Audio provides the album with a solid identity, although the track titles don’t follow suit. Suffice it to say that the album sounds like a slow-awakening spring, and birds in search of pollen, and glistening streams. More impressionistic than overtly song-based, Glade is a collection of textures that mimic newly sprouting buds and leaves. It’s not fast, but it does imitate flight.