Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5YSvkrHpwEf6tAfKuirF2G?si=acQYBAlhSOW0p1cTVQhH-g
Hi here is our slowest and softest song lately. We hope you like it!

Press info blurb:
“Shapes in Time” is new delicate instrumental song by Japan-based band, Lullatone.
A soft ambient ode to life's little moments. Equally apt at fitting in the background while focusing for work or taking a nap, the meditative melody swells and lulls like an ocean’s waves. 

The video, all shot around the the duo’s studio in Nagoya has the same kind of relaxing mood as the melody. A sleepy sunset sheds flickering rays of washed out light over their instruments as cassette tape loops and a homemade mobile spin in circles. Other instruments include a vintage wooden fender stratocaster, a milkman audio amp pedal providing the spring reverb, an organelle and OP-1 for granular sample mangling and more.

While nodding at the palette of the ambient essentials of the past, Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Aphex Twin, Stars of the Lid... the track feels also at home with more modern masters of the genre like Emily A. Sprague, Alaskan Tapes, Hainbach, Nila Sinephro and more. 
And though not quite classical, the composition has a similar atmospheric mood to the duo's most popular piano track "falling asleep with a book on your chest (piano version)". Leave it on in the background for a reading soundtrack or doing work or even falling to sleep with sweet dreams. 

You can hear more from Lullatone on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3h100hRlLZ7QDz8GRt5QsD?si=WFU8m2jOR0qGccw4hS4SZA
Apple Music: ‎‎https://music.apple.com/us/artist/lullatone/34467705
Bandcamp: https://lullatone.bandcamp.com
Website: www.lullatone.com

“Shapes in Time” はLullatone (ララトーン) の最新曲です。
ソフトでインストルメンタルなこの曲は、日々の小さな瞬間にささげる歌です。
仕事中、勉強中、お昼寝中など、何かに集中したい時の背景にぴったりと寄り添う瞑想的なメロディーは、波音のように繰り返し静かに響きます。

名古屋にあるスタジオで撮影された映像は、メロディーと同じようにリラックスしたムードを漂わせます。
本を読みながら聴く時も、猫のように昼寝をする時も、ゆるくて心安らぐBGMになります。

Lullatoneは毎月新曲をリリースするプロジェクトを進行中です。このトラックはシリーズ４曲目になります。

Thanks for listening,
Shawn & Yoshimi

short stories

shapes in time

Shapes & Time - Remixes & Reworks

Kotatsu Naps (muffled mix)

We are trying lots of new experiments around the studio these days. LEISURE & RESEARCH is the code name for tracks that don't sound like usual Lullatone songs. Let us know what you think (if you wanna). 

this book smells like rain

going to buy some strawberries

finding a leaf in your girlfriend's hair

an older couple holding hands

We are going to release a new song every Thursday this year. Hopefully these little weekly wanders will lead to some nice melodies, new ideas and a lot of exploring. Here's to making 2016 the best year yet.

trying something again (again)

A Photograph From The Day You Were Born

a blanket of snow spotted from under the blankets in bed

window weather

Download

the extra opportunities of a leap year

with the posture of a melting snowman

two turntables and a casiotone

I recorded almost all of the parts of this track with a single OP-1 synth on my lap on the short flight to South Korea from Japan (but had to arrange and assemble it in the hotel room after we arrived)

aboard Korean Air flight 742 to Seoul

working from a park bench

concrete waves

as night falls earlier each day

studying a pine cone

This is the final chapter in our big project for 2016. We released brand new song every single week, for 52 weeks in a row. There is always something bittersweet about finishing something you put so much of your time and effort into. But, I'm really glad we pushed ourselves this year to do this. Here is to new adventures in 2017.

finishing something you worked really hard on

Hear the original version here: lullatone.bandcamp.com/track/trying-something-again-again

trying something again again (piano version)

race against the sunset (piano version)

download

fireflies and lightning bugs (piano version)

the existential dilemma of a melting ice cream cone (piano version)

September Affective Disorder (piano version)

falling asleep with a book on your chest (piano version)

stars on the ceiling of a planetarium (piano version)

Music for Museum Gift Shops

here comes the sweater weather (piano version)

adventure music for migrating birds (piano version)

prelude for a single snowflake under a streetlight, falling like a star (piano version)

a slow waltz (piano version)

Over the last year, we've released a piano-y version of of our older tracks (plus 10 brand new ones) every single Thursday! I know it is ridiculous to imagine that anybody would want to listen to 52 songs. But doing these kinds of projects always teaches me about how sticking to a schedule can lead to new melodies and new ideas you might not happen upon without a deadline.  Also it feels really nice to finish something you worked hard on.

I think we should have all 52 tracks mastered and set up as a big album by mid-February 2019 and on all the platforms and stuff.

Thanks again to everybody who listened to some of the songs. 
Here's to an exciting next year.

best wishes from Japan,
Shawn and Yoshimi

Music for Museum Gifts Shops

a little song about snowdrops (piano version)

Here is a video about it: https://youtu.be/JD2WY8LKbJg

Get the Kontakt / Ableton patches here:
http://lullatonesamplesets.bandcamp.com/album/pitch-pedal-glockenspiel-sample-set-ableton-and-kontakt-instruments-in-zip

I got this glockenspiel when we were on a road trip in the US from a restaurant off a highway. To be honest, it doesn't sound very good on its own. I just liked that it had a plastic lid that made it strong for touring. 

But lately I did some experiments and found out that if you run it through a guitar pedal pitching everything an octave down... well then, suddenly you are cooking with fire. Especially if that fire gives everything a warm (fire is the only time it is OK to call sounds warm) warbly tone. 

So I wanted to capture it to share with everyone else too. I cut up all of the sounds and made Kontakt and Ableton patches so you can use them in your recordings too

Let me know if you make something cool with it.

we made a sample set of this glockenspiel sound

Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous

Pajama Party Pop

We were stuck inside for a while like everyone else.

At first that led to a lot of ambient melodies, but I have a feeling everyone's inboxes are already overflowing with all that. So, we tried to think of another way to make tracks in this setting.

I guess these are songs for when you feel like a houseplant that only gets to see the world from a windowsill.

Hopefully before too long they'll all take on a totally different meaning and we'll see you all in the park.

Until then, hope you stay safe.
Big elbow bumps or bows or winks or whatever from Japan.
Shawn & Yoshimi

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