{"id":1348,"date":"2021-10-25T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2022-01-20T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:12:37","slug":"review-new-lullaby-music-web-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/review-new-lullaby-music-web-international\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: New Lullaby – Music Web International"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Lullaby: Fourteen enchanting ways to fall asleep<\/span><\/b><\/em>
\nAaron Larget-Caplan (guitar)
\nrec. Futura Productions, October 2009, Roslindale, Massachusetts, USA
\nSix String Sound 2009 & Stone Records<\/span><\/strong>\u00a02021<\/b> [52:46]<\/span><\/p>\n

This CD, the first of three that form the \u201cNew Lullaby Project\u201d, presents lullabies for adults. As Larget-Caplan states in his liner notes \u201cI don\u2019t have kids\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2006 he started requesting compositions for this project before he suffered two major traumas. Firstly, he lost his house in a fire. Secondly, only two months later, his wife sustained major injuries in an accident. He refers to the irony that he himself needed so much sleep after twelve house-moves in over two and a half years. The fourteen lullabies were performed at three locations in 2009, shortly before this recording. He states that they \u201cCalm the mind, take us to a new place and leave our ears with the gift of sound as we travel through the realm of our realities. Let us be enveloped by the living music of our world and take comfort that we live amongst it.\u201d<\/p>\n

I listened to the disc and treated it as a whole concept. The various compositions work fluently and the sequence has been well thought out. There are notes on each piece by the composers; in a live setting I presume that Larget-Caplan would explain the pieces. I was particularly taken with \u201cBerceuse\u201d by David Vayo<\/strong> where Aaron (I presume) whistles and hums. It would certainly be appropriate for young children. Not all the lullabies are \u201cnight music\u201d. Carson Cooman<\/strong> contributes \u201cunfolding the gates of dawn\u201d: a morning lullaby. My son, listening to the CD with me, pointed out the hint of the Beatles\u2019 \u201cIn no time\u201d by Jonathan Feist<\/strong>. The \u201cFab Four\u201d clearly influence some of the other compositions as does \u201cCavatina\u201d. That said, the composers are to be congratulated for composing music of intrinsically high quality.<\/p>\n

This album certainly engenders feeling of peace which, given the personal circumstances of the performer when he was planning the project, is apt. There are times when this disc will be appropriate and I found it achieved its aim of producing a state of peacefulness. I look forward to hearing the next two CDs in this project. David R Dunsmore, October<\/span><\/b><\/em>
\nContents<\/span><\/strong>
\n1. The Sixth Night –\u00a0Lynn JOB<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[3:39]
\n2. Leaky Roof –\u00a0Jonathan FEIST<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[1:27]
\n3. No Time –\u00a0Jonathan FEIST<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[2:22]
\n4. My Darling\u2019s Slumber –\u00a0Francine TRESTER<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[3:07]
\n5. Nachtlied –\u00a0Scott WHEELER<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[4:19]
\n6. Cradle Song –\u00a0Kevin SIEGFRIED<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[3:19]
\n7. Descent to a Dream –\u00a0Mark SMALL<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[4:32]
\n8. Lulla – for Sam –\u00a0Nolan STOLZ<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[3:20]
\n9. Unfolding the Gates of Dawn –\u00a0Carson COOMAN<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[3:53]
\n10. You are Alone to Sleep, Op.430 –\u00a0John McDONALD<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[2:46]
\n11. Berceuse –\u00a0David VAYO<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[7:01]
\n12. Disturbed, a Lullaby – David LEISNER<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[4:32]
\n13. Song Softly Sung, in Trying Times –\u00a0Eric SCHWARTZ<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[3:50]
\n14. Shhh –\u00a0Ryan VIGIL<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0[5:22]<\/p>\n

Link: <\/span><\/b>http:\/\/www.musicweb-international.com\/classrev\/2021\/Oct\/New-lullaby-88801.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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New Lullaby: Fourteen enchanting ways to fall asleep Aaron Larget-Caplan (guitar) rec. Futura Productions, October 2009, Roslindale, Massachusetts, USA Six String Sound 2009 & Stone Records\u00a02021 [52:46] This CD, the first of three that form the \u201cNew Lullaby Project\u201d, presents lullabies for adults. As Larget-Caplan states in his liner notes \u201cI don\u2019t have kids\u201d. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,53],"tags":[41,28,45,8,372,7,157],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-lullaby","category-recordings","category-reviews-2","tag-carson-cooman","tag-cd-review","tag-david-vayo","tag-jonathan-feist","tag-music-web-international","tag-new-lullaby-project","tag-stone-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}