‘The synergy is amazing’: Stewart Copeland album fuses nature and music

Exclusive: former Police drummer and the naturalist Martyn Stewart collaborate on album inspired by migration of Arctic tern

Chirping Arctic terns and howling wolves are among the birds and animals that will be heard in a pioneering composition that fuses sounds from nature with the playing of traditional instruments.

Birdsong and animal calls will interact with orchestral music on an album by Stewart Copeland, the former Police drummer and a seven-time Grammy-winning composer, who has drawn on field recordings made by the British naturalist Martyn Stewart.