music has been on my mind, especially lullabies--not traditional lullabies per se, although those are nice, too, but more the tunes that have lullaby qualities. i keep thinking that maybe i'll find some soothing gamelan tunes, but so far the stuff becomes a little too dissonant at times, and the image of cooing and soothing a sweet littl'un disappears. i'm not interested in covers of current songs being turned into lullabies, but gems that calm and relax both adults and whippersnappers. any ideas?
Saturday, May 09, 2009
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A friend (musician) gave it to us as a b-day gift. It is lovely.
I think "Skyway" by The Replacements is a good lullaby. There's several "Billy Bragg and Wilco" songs (covers of unpublished Woody Guthrie) that are pretty sweet. I also like Son Volt Trace for some of the first tracks for having a drone and beautiful music and lyrics (thinking specifically of "Tear Stained Eye"). Thinking of the drone sound, I wonder if Soul Coughing or Mike Doughty wouldn't work. :)
People are so different . . .
But, I was trying to think of something that might be universally great for this, and I thought of Toumani Diabate, playing solo on the kora.
Diabate is from Mali, but he tours extensively and has many recordings available in the US. You can search him on Google or Amazon or YouTube and find some samples pretty fast.
The one thing to know is that he also plays with an orchestra, that is more rocking / jazz than the solo kora music--it's the solo kora music that, in particular, might be the right kind of soothing.
Hey Sarah! Coincidentally I featured the Gamelan in this new track. Are you looking for something like that? I think the tempo is a little fast. Although people have said (of our first album) that they were lulled to sleep... hmmm. Anyway, if you think that's close to what you're hoping to get, I'd be happy to piece something together for you. Email me :)
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