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Music : Soothing Sounds for Baby-Vol 1 (1 - 6 months)
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Soothing Sounds for Baby-Vol 1 (1 - 6 months) by: Raymond Scott Childrens Bookshop Price: £14.49 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0608917906424 Format: Import Label: Basta Manufacturer: Basta Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Basta Running Time: 39 minutes Studio: Basta Sales Rank: 22764 Disc 1: Related Items:
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Editorial Review: From Amazon.com: Alongside apple-cheeked watercolor paintings of infants, the original cover design for the Soothing Sounds series of records bore the charming inscription, "An Infant's Friend in Sound." Composer Harry Warnow was already legendary (as "Raymond Scott") for his whimsical electronic and big-band novelty musics. With this 1962-63 series, Scott turned his astonishing array of invented and modified keyboards and recording techniques toward pure electronic music with an infant-friendly spin. Intended as "aural toys" for the nursery, Soothing Sounds' deceptively simple "tic-tocs" and unthreatening seesaw melodies play on the calming properties of repetition--much like music boxes, Fisher-Price's mobiles, and the comforting "Again!" video mentality of the Teletubbies. Despite endorsement from the Gesell Institute of Child Development, the records sold poorly. But they had a curious afterlife, prefiguring such "adult" descendents as ambient music ("invented" by Brian Eno in 1975) and the mechanical pop-tronic textures of Kraftwerk and Gary Numan. --Gil Gershman Average Rating:
 Rating: - Terrific for newborns & great for Eno and Aphex Twin fans!There's good news and there's good news. After 10 minutes of track 1, Lullaby, my one-month-old was fast asleep. As it played on, she continued to rest peacefully at a time when she would normally have been one alert little munchkin. And now for the other good news: This is a fantastic recording, and an important one for music lovers and musicologists. Having been recording in 1962/3, this sounds extraordinarily sophisticated (in a mellow, analogue "soothing" way). It sounds ... Read More: Rating: - Haunting Echoes of a Distant PastThis first volume of soothing sounds for baby is a wonderful journey into a distant world, maybe our own pre-memory past."Sleepy times" is a haunting melody conjuring images of sleepy and content babies. "Music box" sounds like a group of tiny pipe players and "Nursery Rhyme" takes this one step further and envokes the idea of scores of small wooden toys coming to life for a festive dance. Like any re-release, the music is open to completely different interpretation ... Read More: |
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