A toddler is releasing the world’s first album made from sounds recorded inside the womb. Vibrations made by Luca Yupanqui while she was in her mum Elizabeth Hart’s womb were recorded by electrodes and then transformed into music using synthesisers. The ten-track album, Sounds of the Unborn, will be released on the label Sacred Bones.
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