How we ever gonna survive unless we get a little crazy?

Werner Herzog's majestic and hazily wise new jam about Antarctica, dreamers in "corrosive solitude", moon colonization, comedy and the apocalypse, Encounters At The End Of The Earth, is out. It is a supremely pleasurable and provocative jam.

At one point he kicks it with seal researchers, who lay down with their ears to the 6 foot thick ice to listen to the seals do this:



the meaning of their calls is completely unknown (to scientists) - they can't seem to link the sound to any physical actions. seals have a range of singing/hearing many, many times that of humans (up to 70KHz!!!!)

no electronics, delay or anything. the "cracks" are the ice shifting, and all the echo is pure OCEAN