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Viktor Vasnetsov. The Flying Carpet (1880).
Based on the Slavic folktale of the Firebird and depicting Prince Ivan returning with the fabled bird in a golden cage. Wikimedia Commons has a very large copy.

Many sounds have never been heard—by humans: some sound waves you don’t hear—but they reach you. “Storm-stereo” techniques combine singers, instrumentalists and complex electronic sound. The emotional intensity is at a maximum. Sleeve note for An Electric Storm, Island Records, 1969.
An Electric Storm by White Noise is reissued in a remastered edition this week. [...]