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Various, India and Nepal: City life

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TitleIndia and Nepal: City life
Artist(s):Various
Category:BBC - Sound effects-SFX (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - Sound effects-SFX CDs.)
Label and catalogue number:Picture of images/labels/BBC SFX.jpg labelBBC SFX - BBCCD SFX053
Format:Disc CDs
Country:UK UK flag
Released:1997
Genre:Sound effects View all other tracks listed as Sound effects.
Run-off codes:ECD 53 . MASTERED BY NIMBUS
Item deleted?Yes
Distributed / printed byBBC Worldwide Ltd
Page views:1044 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 5953, rank in cds is 371.
My rating:*****
Guest rating:*****

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Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionNear mint
BBC records label code$
Number have1
What type of seller was usedNot recorded
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Tracks

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Side & track noTrack and ArtistLength
INDIA - STREET SOUNDS & CROWDS
A1 Chandni Showk, Old Dehli - heavy traffic (rickshaws, cars and car horns), vendors, some distinct speech4.10
A2City street, Calcutta - traffic (rickshaws, buses, cars etc.), footsteps, and bells - some distinct speech4.11
A3Crowd at Gateway of India, Bombay - large noisy crowd with hawkers in covered enclosure with slight echo4.04
A4Crowd near temple, Varanasi (Benares) - chanting, hand-claps, bells and speech3.03
A5Market, Calcutta - chickens, speech, bells, man sweeping4.30
A6Bathing ghats, Varanasi (Benares) - splashes and shouts, with distant bell3.59
A7Marriage procession, Bombay - band, with some car horns and speech (2'15" band stops, 3'51" new tune)4.53
A8Crowd at Churchgate Station, Bombay - rush hour, with noisy footsteps, trains, whistles, and some indistinct speech4.44
A9Station platforms, Mughal Sarai (Uttar Pradesh) - hawkers, footsteps, distinct speech, and some train noise3.21
INDIA - TRANSPORT
A10 Deccan Queen express train from Bombay to Poonah - internal, with train at station with faint chat - train leaves (2'13") - constant run, with chat and hawkers4.23
A11Surburban train, Bombay - internal, waiting at station with hawkers, chat, and fan - train leaves (2'25") - constant run4.55
A12Bus, Bombay - internal, with rattles and creaks and occasional distinct speech - (2'17") bus passes with radio in background - (3'47") bus passes4.17
A13auto-richshaw, Delhi - internal - starts, constant run, stops4.21
NEPAL
A14 Busy street, central Kathmandu - heavy traffic (rickshaws, cars, etc.), some distinct speech3.53
A15Street market, central Kathmandu - temple bells, car-horns, chatter with children4.29
A16Carpenter's shop, in village just north of Kathmandu - speech an coughing, plane and saws, and occasional cock-crows3.51
Total length of media 1:07:04.

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Front cover of BBCCD SFX053
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Further information

These are a series of BBC CD albums which basically digitised the original BBC sound effects albums found in the main BBC cagalogue.

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