My darling heart, this is so beautiful to read. We have been listening to you each morning and playing a game, where we have to imagine the scene that the music narrates (it is very fun). We have another family rule that we sing entire conversations when we are in bad mood or the vibes are low. And reading this piece by you made me think, I hope that this never changes, and I love you. Your friend Catie
I really loved finding this. What about Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest? And from there you could even consider Rorogwela which was the Solomon Islands lullaby sampled for the song. Here we could really go down a rabbit hole. Music is global. Lullabies are global. I’m fascinated to see what else there is. But Megan your list is sublime! And it’s working…I’m sleepy.
Music or at least sounds have been part of my battle with sleep for years. The secret weapon. I remember a period around 92/93 when (aptly) R.E.M's Nightswimming would be the track I would flick onto repeat to get me to sleep. The hifi would be set to switch off after 90minutes so it's perhaps not that strange that it still stirs something in me having listened to it conscious and unconscious hundreds if not thousands of times. Now it's often ocean or rain sounds (albeit there's plenty of actual rain sounds right now in the wild south west). I'll be using this playlist I'm sure as I wish away the waves of alertness from my newly prescribed dexamfetamine; the battle continues.
My darling heart, this is so beautiful to read. We have been listening to you each morning and playing a game, where we have to imagine the scene that the music narrates (it is very fun). We have another family rule that we sing entire conversations when we are in bad mood or the vibes are low. And reading this piece by you made me think, I hope that this never changes, and I love you. Your friend Catie
I really loved finding this. What about Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest? And from there you could even consider Rorogwela which was the Solomon Islands lullaby sampled for the song. Here we could really go down a rabbit hole. Music is global. Lullabies are global. I’m fascinated to see what else there is. But Megan your list is sublime! And it’s working…I’m sleepy.
Music or at least sounds have been part of my battle with sleep for years. The secret weapon. I remember a period around 92/93 when (aptly) R.E.M's Nightswimming would be the track I would flick onto repeat to get me to sleep. The hifi would be set to switch off after 90minutes so it's perhaps not that strange that it still stirs something in me having listened to it conscious and unconscious hundreds if not thousands of times. Now it's often ocean or rain sounds (albeit there's plenty of actual rain sounds right now in the wild south west). I'll be using this playlist I'm sure as I wish away the waves of alertness from my newly prescribed dexamfetamine; the battle continues.