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 | Title : Planet Sleeps
Author : Various Artists
Release Date : 19970506
Binding : Audio CD
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Editorial Reviews :
Everything about this CD, from its eye-popping cool packaging to its beautiful booklet, is wonderful, perhaps peerless. It's a study that spans 16 countries, catching paeans to childhood sleep from varied traditions. The set traverses the Cape Breton Gaelic tradition with the Rankin Family, Haiti with pop stars Boukman Eksperyans, and the African continent with music from Tonga, Algeria, and Cameroon. Despite their distances from each other, at times the songs sound quite alike. Voices might begin alone but then gather into choral size, with a reliance on wordless passages to emphasize the flow of time as sleep encroaches. In execution, the surprises are many. Algerian Houria Aïchi sounds East Indian; the Traditional Japanese Music Ensemble of New York sounds poised somewhere between a stately concert of historical court music and a touching homage to childhood; and German singer Michelle sounds pop-music ready even as she toes the line on singing a sleep-triggering song. Beyond being a great collection of international music, this is probably the most interesting mix available of cultural voices approaching the issue of children sleeping. --Andrew Bartlett
Buyer Reviews :
This CD is exactly what I have been looking for. I play it softly as background music while playing with my 2 year old and 6 month old. 'Ana Latu' is one of our favorites. I also feel that the write-up on 'Oj Talasi' alone is worth buying the album. David Field journals his work at compiling these lullabies, adding to the feeling of connectedness that imbues from this collection. I was especially glad (and surprised) to find a lullaby from my own distant heritage, 'Yahnaway Hay Yowna'. This disc makes a wonderful baby shower or blessingway gift for expectant parents. The 'jewel' case is all-natural, too, better for our Mother Earth!
(by A music fan)
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