Soothing Sounds For Baby: Electronic Music By Raymond Scott, Vol. 2, 6 To 12 Months [Import]

Raymond Scott (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Raymond Scott
• Audio CD (December 30, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Basta Records
• ASIN: B000001YCH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #186,639 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #85 in Music > Pop > Easy Listening > Retro Space Age

Track Listings

1. Tempo Block

2. The Happy Whistler

3. Toy Typewriter

Customer Reviews

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for baby..., May 1, 2000

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boeanthropist "Philip Welsh" (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Soothing Sounds For Baby: Electronic Music By Raymond Scott, Vol. 2, 6 To 12 Months (Audio CD)

This is wonderful. It makes you rethink what a melody is, a string of code reiterating itself to you until it has replicated inside you. There is no longer an 'it' -- there is only you again. It makes you wonder if anyone whose parents actually played this stuff to them when they were a baby might somehow come across a copy of this CD, and put it on, and unknowingly allow it to trigger old, old memory-strings, and be turned, suddenly and perhaps only for an instant, back into a cribbed infant...

It's very soothing to work to, as well. I leave it on repeat when I'm writing, and fall calmly into a work-trance. It seems to help me concentrate. My dog stops dropping slobbery tennis balls in my lap when it's on, and instead lies curled in his dog-bed, staring at a spot on the ceiling and making small wet dog-sounds to himself. Hours pass. No one minds. Sssshhhh. It's bedtime already, and we still don't have to turn it off.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The World's First Ambient Electronic albums!?, July 21, 1998

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This review is from: Soothing Sounds For Baby: Electronic Music By Raymond Scott, Vol. 2, 6 To 12 Months (Audio CD)

Composed & performed by RAYMOND SCOTT on primitive home-built electronic instruments which SCOTT began to design & build in the 1940s. As ambient electronic music, these albums predate -- yet are comparable to; BRIAN ENO/FRIPP, PHILIP GLASS, APHEX TWIN, & KRAFTWERK. The 3 vinyl albums were originally released by Epic & had been out-of-print for over 35 years!