Little Songs About Raindrops

by Lullatone

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Panoni It's a treasure that I secretly cherish every night... Favorite track: Wake Up Wake Up.

Hannah Coates Recommended for all Brits abroad, who miss the sound track of their homeland (rain).

Jan Hicks I adore Lullatone, and this is one of my favourites out of their albums that I own. The music has the ability to lift my spirits, and it feels as though you are in the room with them as they are creating. Favorite track: Afternoon Nap (For Pets).

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1.	My Petit Prelude 00:42	buy track
2.	Yesterday 01:28	buy track
3.	Wake Up Wake Up (free) 06:24	download
4.	Leaves Falling 04:12	buy track
5.	Puddles On The Playground 03:40	buy track
6.	Morning Coffee 05:55	buy track
7.	Afternoon Nap (For Pets) 04:45	buy track
8.	Pitter Pater Interlude 01:15	buy track
9.	Drip Drops Jumping On An Umbrella 07:14	buy track
10.	A Miniature Finale 06:14	buy track

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"The meandering, atmospheric compositions that make up Little Songs About Raindrops (they're little in scale and scope, not necessarily in length or complexity) branch out from Lullatone's predominantly electronic debut, Computer Recital, to include an impressive collection of toys: a tiny toy metalophone, a toy piano, a toy cassette tape recorder, and a programmable music box, whose glockenspiel-like tones dominate the album nearly as much as computer-generated sine waves did Recital. There's also some accordion, ukulele, viola, and delicately plucked (and rather toy-sounding) acoustic guitar. Virtually all of these instruments seem to personify the titular raindrops, which these songs are not so much "about" as wholly comprised of, figuratively speaking -- and so, come to think of it, do Yoshimi Tomida's vocals, at least on the onomatopoeic "Pitter Patter Interlude." Needless to say, there's a considerable amount of cuteness and whimsy on display here -- but that's not to suggest that this music is simplistic or overly precious. Apart from that admittedly cutesy interlude, the album is largely instrumental (Tomida's vocals appear on three other tracks, but they're either considerably muffled or substantially processed and manipulated), and largely concerned with gently building up layers of sound to create lush and lazy soundscapes that are wistful and winsome but still majestic in their quiet way. If the song titles and instrumentation make the childlike qualities of Lullatone's music inescapable, and perhaps suggest a whiff of gimmicky novelty, the music itself reveals that essence to be much more fundamental -- even performed entirely on "adult" synthesizers and classical instruments and given banal, non-descriptive titles (which these pieces are both abstract and accomplished enough to accommodate), the music's simple beauty and sense of wonder would remain undeniable." allmusic.com

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released July 5, 2004

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Tokuzo / 得三

Nagoya, Japan

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