The Thai Elephant Orchestra presents the debut of the most remarkable orchestra in history. Composer Dave Soldier (Soldier String Quartet, Kropotkins, John Cale, Guided by Voices), in collaboration with Richard Lair, (co-founder of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Northern Thailand), created musical instruments designed for elephants and taught the elephants to perform on them. The CD, recorded in the jungle, presents the first orchestral music by non-human animals. Amazingly, the music is absolutely beautiful. It must be heard to be believed. The album contains no overdubs or editing tricks, and is exactly what the elephants performed. The orchestra now performs daily concerts near Lampang, Thailand at the Elephant Conservation Center, the first national park set up for protection of the Asian elephant. The CD has received wide attention, including articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ABC Nightly News, a two page spread in People Magazine, NPR All Things Considered, and many other articles and broadcast stories. Many of these can be accessed through the Mulatta website (www.mulatta.org). Press Quotes: “The results, at once meditative and deliberate, delicate and insistently thrumming, strike some Western listners as haunting, others as monotonous.” –New York Times “Anyone not knowing it was elephant music would assume humans were playing” – The Economist “Luuk Kob is a star: More important, he’s a demon percussionist” – People Magazine “The instrumental melange sounds like Indonesian gamelan music combined with Thai temple music” – Wall Street Journal