Track Listings (15) - Disc #1| All Artists: Various Artists Title: Mediterranean Lullaby Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Ellipsis Arts Original Release Date: 9/26/2000 Release Date: 9/26/2000 Genres: Folk, International Music, New Age, Pop, Children's Music Styles: Contemporary Folk, Europe, Continental Europe, Lullabies Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 052296429027, 052296429041, 4260027624290 |
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All too often the notion of creating webs of gentle sounds to help ease babies, toddlers, even children into sleep leads to overly synthetic musical concoctions. Mediterranean Lullaby (like its sibling Cuban, Brazilian, Ce... more » |
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Amazon.com All too often the notion of creating webs of gentle sounds to help ease babies, toddlers, even children into sleep leads to overly synthetic musical concoctions. Mediterranean Lullaby (like its sibling Cuban, Brazilian, Celtic, Latin, African, and Guitar lullaby collections) takes a very different, more organic approach. Here you have singers and music from Mediterranean regions, including Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, and Spain. The music is so unadorned that you can't miss the heartfelt reverence for children, the respect for their ears, and the overall commitment to gentle sweetness. Guitar and vocals are the main fare, but there are mandolins, sentirs, nay flutes, and more--all played as if the musicians were able to show up in your child's room to soothe them after a day at play. --Andrew Bartlett Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsEnchanting and peaceful zoe | roslindale, ma United States | 08/28/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "I was looking for a lullaby cd that wasn't "kid's music" and that would reflect my baby's Meditteranean heritage. This cd is so beautiful some of the songs bring tears to my eyes. I listen to it every night, and will do so when my baby arrives. I can't recommend this cd enough." More than delighted... zoe | 11/18/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "this album became an immediate hit with myself and my 3-month old son. we have all of the other ellipsis arts lullaby CDs and this new one is our current favorite. definitely lullabies for all, not "kids music." we like to listen to real music from around the world, and this is some of the best we've found anywhere. LOVE IT!!" Sublime A. E. Savich | USA | 03/23/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "The editorial reviews underline the gentleness of this cd, and that point cannot be overemphasized; too many so called lullaby cd's are really rousing happy versions of children's songs. But this music is wonderful, reflective, and very rooted in Mediterranean cultures. I feel as though grandmothers and grandfathers from each village are crooning their beautiful emotional songs to me & baby. This is the cd I put on every single night for the past 4 months while I breastfeed my baby to sleep. In the beginning, I would get so emotionally drawn into the music (combined with post-partum emotionality) that I would cry through the songs - especially tracks 5, 7 and 9; so beautiful! The liner notes make it easy to sing the syllables to these foreign languages. I'd say only one song approaches a slightly rousing lilting quality, but it's track 3, early on the cd, and it's still gently sung. I don't care much for track 10, the womens' voices are a little too shrill for my taste. The guitar pieces are all lovely. There's a sweet 'au clair de la lune' with the singer's young daughter providing a cute whispery high soprano. Two tracks are sung by male vocalists and are very droning and sleep inducing, I imagine the grandfathers softly crooning in old rocking chairs. It's really a cd you can float into, and away towards slumber."
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