In 2005 I wrote about Bob Thompson’s The Sound of Speed, “an album entirely based on the noises of modern transportation.”
The LP is available once again as a vinyl re-issue from Sundazed Music.
An orchestral tribute to wheels, wings, and whirly-birds, Bob Thompson’s 1960 “concept” LP rhapsodizes about the technology of human transport, from Vespa scooters to Le Mans racers, from tricycles to rocket ships. Each vehicular vignette is book-ended by authentic sound effects, with vivid stereo motion. The Sound of Speed is an overlooked gem from a bygone era of orchestral elegance. It has been mastered in wide-angle stereo and pressed on 180 gram vinyl in the year composer/arranger Bob Thompson turns 85.
Bob Thompson: The Sound of Speed LP