***Uncle Widget***
The most exclusive children's music genre in existence? Electronic
Ambient Lullaby Instrumentals. And as of this writing, Uncle Widget's
Bedtime on Mars seems to be the only CD that falls into that niche.
Hey, Brian Eno for babies!
The CD's subtitle, "Music for Children to Dream by", aptly describes
the contents, and both Uncle Widget's website and the album liner
notes describe the record's purposes: to expose children to music from
infancy, to get children interested in the relaxing and creative
qualities of music, and to foster peace and creativity in sleeping
children. All the music on the CD is original, except for the tiniest
snippets of traditional lullabies embedded deep within a song or two.
The 11 song titles have a sort of "day in the life" order to them,
beginning with "Carefree from Dawn" and "Song for the AM", and winding
down with "Bedtime on Mars", "Until Morning", and "Tucked In". All
wonderfully soothing, all interestingly detailed, and all
professionally produced and arranged.
Besides working as a South Carolina-based youth minister, Bryan
Murdaugh, Uncle Widget's alter ego, writes praise and worship songs
for Mass and paraliturgical events, and sets psalms to music for use
in the Mass. Murdaugh is also the co-founder of bingbit, a liturgical
and family music publishing company. Check out some of this busy guy's
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