*200 copies limited edition*  In an alternate universe, Italian sound archaeologist Mariolina Zitta would be recognized alongside Bernie Krause's bioacoustic investigations and Pauline Oliveros's deep listening practices. This rare vinyl edition - limited to 200 copies - reveals an uncompromising researcher of prehistoric sound working at her most intimate and visionary best. At the close of the 1980s, Zitta abandoned conventional musicology for a singular obsession: excavating the acoustic origins of human music within Italian cave systems. Her encounter with sound archaeologist Walter Maioli proved transformative, connecting her to an international network of sonic explorers including Max Eastley and David Toop, who were similarly reconstructing ancient instruments and exploring non-Western sound practices. But Zitta's most radical work took place underground, where she became a priestess of subterranean ceremony.

Concert For Bats, Voices And Natural Sounds represents the culmination of this vision. Working from bat echolocation recordings by American researcher William Gannon, Zitta constructed interspecies compositions using didgeridoo, bone whistles, seed rattles, logs, harmonic singing, and struck stalactites. Using special detectors, she translated ultrasonic bat calls into audible frequencies - transforming nocturnal flight into melody, navigation into music.

Zitta rejected Western musical structures entirely. "What sense would it make to play a melody with stalactites that have existed for thousands of years?" she asked. Instead, she pursued "non-rhythm" - the intuitive sonic exploration that precedes cultural conditioning. Within cave acoustics that amplified every gesture, her voice intertwined with bat calls, dripping water, and mineral resonance. The recordings capture profound listening, communion with forces older than civilization itself.

Following her groundbreaking 1996 debut Perle di Grotta (Cave Pearls), which brought stalactite music to international attention, Zitta collaborated with ambient master Alio Die on La Sala Dei Cristalli while creating educational programs introducing children to humanity's sonic roots. Her practice connected contemporary sound research with rituals thousands of years old, hearing echoes of La Monte Young's wind-and-wire paradigm in the acoustic properties of limestone chambers.

Mariolina Zitta passed away in February 2024 at age 62. Her recordings remain as essential today as when first captured - testament to an artist who heard music in darkness, who listened to bats as fellow musicians, who understood that the underworld has always sung.