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The Planet Sleeps
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Product Details/SpecificationsRecording label: Sbme Special Mkts. EAN: 0886972400723Binding: Audio CDFormat: Enhanced, Release Date: 2008-02-01Universal product code (UPC): 886972400723Number of discs: 1Amazon.com
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
Language: English (Unknown)
Disc 1 Tracks:
1. Chi Mi Na Mór-Bheanna
2. Yhanaway Hay Yowna
3. Phnom Penh Lullaby
4. Ana Latu
5. Berceuse
6. Hace Tuto Guagua
7. Mayi a Gaye
8. Ag Croist an Siol
9. Sweet Bitowo
10. Sleep, Queen of the Dolls
11. Fais Do Do, Colin Mon Petit Frère
12. Noomey
13. Itsuki No Komoriuta
14. Schlafe, Mein Prinzchen Schlaf Ein
15. Moe Moe
16. Oj Talasi
Publishers: Sbme Special Mkts.
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