Lullatone creates a type of music that should find its way into the home of every family with young children. They offer a soundtrack to childhood that is free of the garish lyrics and jingle-driven melodies and instead provides evocative meanderings with new and interesting sounds that will rock babies to sleep and allow preschoolers to spin in as many circles as they wish.
We first introduced GeekDad readers to this Japan-based, mom and dad ensemble when we discovered their album Elevator Music. It captured us with its aesthetic of simplicity, wide ranging use of sounds, and a gentle whimsy that was a cross between Tim Burton, Jim Henson and Raffi.
Lullatone produces a sort of ambient electronica for kids. It's great to see they have a new album out now called Soundtracks for Everyday Adventures.
This new album continues to explore various sounds through whimsical melodies and fun that are perfectly displayed by the name of each track. This means the track "the best paper airplane ever" feels full of wind, but also full of the excitement of watching your paper creation soar above backyard fences and into the record books. While "an older couple holding hands" provides the listener with a sense of love that is both tender, wise and solid from the years. The perspectives and places Lullatone asks you to look at things from is sometimes a little uncomfortable, but in the end warms you from the inside.
This is music for the 5am starts when the baby wakes and won't go back to sleep. This is music for Sunday mornings when the kids have covered the kitchen table with Lego and you try to find room for your coffee cup on the shelf that holds the cookbooks. This is music for the car, when the trip is long enough that the children will be asking "are we there yet?" well before you arrive. Never more appropriately titled this is an album for everyday adventures.
Lullatone is not a kids band. This is music for the family. This is music for your own adventures to both inspire and relax you.
Lullatone writes music to reflect our lives. There is a decent back catalogue –check it out.
Note: GeekDad received a review copy of Soundtracks for Everyday Adventures*.*
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