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Various Artists: Voices of the Rainforest [Rykodisc]

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2011-10-11

Artists: Various Artists

Actual sounds of the rainforest recorded by Steven Field.

This recording deserves a place of its own. Steve Feld's new recordings from Kaluli territory set it in a sonic context reflecting the ...continue...

Various Artists: Sounds of Steam Locomotives, Vol. 5

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Sounds of Steam Locomotives, No. 3: Colorado Narrow Gauge Stack Music

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Sound Effects, Vol. 1: City Sounds

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

This compilation of sounds from the city is divided into two categories: outdoor and indoor sound. Recorded in 1958 by Tony Schwartz for the purpose...continue...

Various Artists: Sound Patterns [Natural, Musical, Human]

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Sounds of Steam Locomotives, No. 2: Stack Music Sampler or Make Up of a Train

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

Tom Kines: Songs from Shakespeare's Plays and Songs

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Tom Kines

Various Artists: Sounds of the Office

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

This mysterious album opens with banging and creaking and could be mistaken for a minimalist sound piece. It is in fact the sounds of an...continue...

Various Artists: Science Fiction Sound Effects

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Sounds of the Grand Prix of Watkins Glen

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

Recorded by Henry Mandler and Robert Strome in 1956 and 1960, this album gives you an idea of what the famous Watkins Glen car race...continue...

Original Soundtrack: The Naked Prey

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Original Soundtrack

Various Artists: Sounds of Carnival

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

This 1955 recording opens with several tracks of Merry-Go-Round music followed by interviews and noises from other fair rides. The sounds were collected by a...continue...

Various Artists: Sounds of Steam Locomotives, No. 1: Stack Music Sampler or Steam, Steel and Action

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Documentary Sounds, Vol. 1

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

This album is a collection of five categories of sounds made by humans, bells, cars and trucks, construction and aircraft. Each category offers specific examples...continue...

Various Artists: Sounds of the Junk Yard

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

Loud whooshing noises open the album giving the impression of perhaps waves crashing. The noise is in fact that of a blow torch! This interesting...continue...

Franco Ferrara: Soundtrack from the Documentary Film Picasso

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Franco Ferrara

Introspective allusions to and passionate eruptions of Spanish flamenco for orchestra and solo guitar were intended to accompany a documentary of the immortal painter's life,...continue...

Eddy Manson: Suite from Little Fugitive

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Eddy Manson

Eddy Manson, composer and harmonica player, plays tunes from the score of Little Fugitive, a slapstick film about a little boy who runs away to...continue...

Abraham Lass: Play Me a Movie: Piano Music to Accompany Silent Movie Scenes

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Abraham Lass

How does a storm at sea sound? A villain's entrance? Tender, sentimental love? The silent-movie pianists at neighborhood theaters matched music to the action on...continue...

Harold S. Ludlow: Sounds of Steam Locomotives, Vol. 4

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Harold S. Ludlow

Grant Rogers: The Cannonsville Story: From the Film Kinfolks

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Grant Rogers

Various Artists: Actual Sounds: Street & Gangland Rhythms

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

Six 11- and 12-year-old boys from the housing projects in New York City make music, to cope and for fun. Their highly sophisticated rhythms on...continue...
If this album was going to be rated on notoriety alone then the sky would be the limit. This is a release that never fails to come up if the topic of discussion is strange records. It has also had qui...continue...

Various Artists: Sounds of Medicine

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

As good as ER, only real. This recording first takes us into the operating room, where a young surgeon is removing a cyst from the...continue...

Various Artists: Sounds for Camp

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

Various Artists: Rail Dynamics

CD / Smithsonian Records / 2009-01-01

Artists: Various Artists

Rail enthusiasts won't want to pass up this chance to sample sounds from mid-century steam locomotives, diesel trains, night trains and the train yard. Emory...continue...
Recorded along a railroad right-of-way in the fall of 1950, Rail Dynamics is a classic sound effects record from the early days of the LP. Side A, titled "A Story in Sound," uses an open microphone ab...continue...