Nature's Music - Tropical Rain Forest (1988)
"Tropical Rain Forest" is the rawest and least dressed-up of the many 'sounds of nature; tapes in my collection. Unlike most other releases of the same niche, there's no coupling of touched up field recordings with peaceful, meandering musical passages of piano. fact the first side kicks off with some kind of primate howl, and the rest of 30 minutes consist of an orchestra of mating calls, bird chirps and various deep jungle noises. In fact, I can only assume it's a barely edited field recording. This is quite neat, making it stand out from the usual studio produced affair of artificial and clean forest ambiance.
Unfortunately information of this is slim. I have no idea who actually made the recording or whether or not it was licensed elsewhere (though I believe it was, probably with midi pan flutes dubbed over). It was put out by Silver Bells Music, a defunct affiliate of Nashville publisher Thomas Nelson, which mostly produces biblical-related books and media. Back in the late 80s they dabbled in World and New Age music market (to their defense, just about everyone did) and this is clearly a byproduct of that effort. There seems to be a CD copy on Amazon.com from 1993, and I deduce this mostly because a 1-star review said "This almost is identical to the one I was looking for (rain with pan flute and harp) but the copy I had in the past didn't have all these screaming monkeys on it."
The tape says 'same on both sides' but side b clearly begins with a completely different monkey ranting about something different altogether. My guess is the tapes were dubbed off a loop without any proper start/stop, so the content is the same but the tapes begin at different points.
Odd tape overall. Can't be for relaxing nor meditation - I doubt anyone can quickly falling asleep to the real cacophonous beauty of the rain forest. It's not clearly documented as an environmental recording.
Maybe it's like those Halloween 'spooky sounds' tapes, but for like, I dunno, Jurassic Park themed parties. Yeah I bet that's it.
Technical info
Label: Silver Bells Music
Case: Norelco
J-card: Basic cardstock
C-62
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