Lullatone

Lullatone - "Little Songs About Raindrops"

Now based in Nagoya, Japan, since his debut on Audio Dregs, his sound has grown into a more lush sort of melodic minimalism. The clean lined aesthetic is still there, though hardly “minimal” by the electronic standards of today. Lullatone's tiny compositions are characterized by a subtle nature comparable to the works of Steve Reich and Erik Satie, that is to say minimal, but very human.

In 2003, Lullatone released "Computer Recital" on Audio Dregs
 Recordings. The album received much praise for its charming ability to mend unadorned sine tones into a small symphony of childlike melodies. 2003 also saw the release of Lullatone’s "My Petit Melodies" from Nobukazu Takemura's Childisc Recordings. His most recent release continues in the vein of the previous two, in terms of its gentle, cloud-like nature. However, for this album, Lullatone has moved away from the sine tone and instead used a tiny orchestra of toy instruments to reproduce the pitter-patter of raindrops. The album also features guest appearances from Keiichi Sugimoto (Fonica / Minamo), Yoshimi Tomida, Yusuke Asano (Asana), and others.

In the past year Lullatone has also managed to appear on numerous compilations from throughout the world, and has also toured in America and Japan.