New Naptime Radio Mix Our very favorite small press / web radio show Snore and Guzzle let us DJ an hour long selection of siesta-time songs which you can hear on their archives here: snoreandguzzle.com All of their other mixes, and books, are fabulous too! Please have a look.
Lullaby Loops
And speaking of naptime melodies... we are putting the finishing touches on our own new album right now. It is a new record of 10 loop-able melodies we made for our baby Niko. Every track is written specifically to play seemlessly using the repeat 1 function on your CD player or iTunes.
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We made another official soundtrack for Hello Kitty. Let’s listen:
And we have copies of the limited edition maxi single (including intro and ambient remix) Printed on a clear CD!
only $6 (plus $2 shipping worldwide)
Or head over to our new web shop where you can easily order lots of other little Lullatone collectibles, too. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Thank you to everyone who came to see our exhibition homemade instruments and illustrations. It was so much fun, especially the children's workshop where we made instruments and melodies with a lot of little creators. I have never felt more like my hero Bruno Munari! Check out the photos or a video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lullatone Ouchi Orchestra
Since May 2008 Shawn has been appearing on Central Japanese TV every Saturday morning with a special corner on a children's show. The corner is called Lullatone Ouchi Orchestra, which translates to Lullatone Home Orchestra. The concept is to encourage creativity by showing children ideas of how use things around the house to make music. If you live in Central Japan you can have a look every Saturday on Tokai TV channel 1. The program is called sukusuku pon.
This is our newest CD, LULLATONE presents The Bedtime Beat
"Lullatone are back with their latest Conceptual pop masterpiece. This 10 song mini-album finds the duo not only further perfecting their blend of self proclaimed pajama pop, but also taking it into new uncharted waters, literally. The album opens with the infectious “bathtime beat”, which features a drum solo of tapping water in a bathtub! Other interesting sounds on the record include a bed tapped to sound like a bass drum, snores cut up into hypnotic, breathy drum beats, Yoshimi’s human beatbox, marching in slippers, and a full cast of toy instruments and soft sine tones intricately arranged into dazzling melodies recorded half at home and half in a music room at a Japanese elementary school. This is both Lullatone’s strangest and most pop album yet, and a future classic for sure. So, come on everybody let’s march to sleep with the new sound of the bedtime beat!
Listen to track previews at lastfm (sorry the full track previews got taken down by the man, but there are still 30 second clips)
MP3s from: Amazon - $8.99 - $9.90 emusic - free for members