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Sonic Bangkok is an audio expedition through the streets, alleys and waterways of Bangkok. The recording is an audio adventure, kind of like traveling, kind of like listening to an old radio show without the narration.

Bangkok is known as Krung Thep in Thailand. It's also known as the city of angels. Buddhist temples are on nearly every corner, the air smells like diesel, like heat, like jungle and like great food. Thai people will put a motor on anything that moves and drive it through traffic as thick as a presidential motorcade. A flat wooden cart with two wheels out front and something that looks like a car engine strapped to a unicycle on the back is as likely to be seen barreling down the road as anything else. The place is as old school as old school can be. It's also a sprawling wired metropolis feeding off billboards, cell phones and technology. Sukhumvit road pulsates to the sounds of buses, the voices of native Thai folks and the whistles of standing cops that look like stormtroopers.

Sonic Bangkok is an audio expedition through a place that's a world unto itself. A motorcycle taxi driver kick starts his bike, you jump on the back, within minutes your scared to death because he's weaving in and out of whatever space he can fit that thing into. Street vendors are everywhere. Buddha is everywhere. Monks in mustard colored robes are everywhere. Long tail boats, canals, river taxis, sky trains, tuk tuks, wats, skyscrapers, elephants, birds, crickets and Thai food are everywhere else. It's the Venice of the east. You always get where you want to go but you hardly ever know how you got there. The recording is an audio adventure. Kind of like traveling, kind of like listening to an old radio show without the narration. There's plenty of room for the imagination and wondering.

Golden Flower Media field recordings are professionally recorded, edited and mastered. Each compact disc is one contiguous track designed to retain the organic feel of the environment it was recorded in and maintain the nature of the sounds. Field recordings provide a unique atmosphere. They are a little different from meditation music, yoga music, relaxation music, background music or ambient music. The listening experience is similar in many ways, but they tend to feel a bit more like traveling. It's refreshing to travel somewhere new and it's just as refreshing to hear the sounds from somewhere new. Listening, like traveling, is an adventure. The more you pay attention to the nuances the more exciting it is. The more you get caught up in that foreign place the more you want to stay.