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Lullatone is a popular music group based in Nagoya, Japan, whose music is characterized by an innocent, child-like quality and spare, lo-fi sounds. Although the group refers to their style of music as “pajama-pop”, it is commonly included in such musical subgenres as Twee pop, Indie pop and Electronica. It draws influence from such diverse sources as Bossa Nova, French pop music of the 1960s, children’s songs and Musique concrète.

Lullatone’s founder was Shawn James Seymour, a native of Louisville, Kentucky. Its other principle member is Japanese native Yoshimi Tomida (Tomida Yoshimi, in traditional Japanese name order). Seymour began musical experimentation during his high school years in the late-1990s, using keyboards and cassette tape recorders. He and Tomida met while both were attending Bellarmine University; she as an exchange student from Japan. They soon became romantically involved and when Tomida’s visa was due to expire, Seymour decided to return with her to Japan. In the small apartment they shared in Japan, Seymour began composing music late at night while Tomida slept. So as not to disturb her, the songs he created were lullabies. This was the origin of the name “Lullatone”, which is also a reference to Raymond Scott’s 1963 record “Soothing Sounds for Baby”. Seymour and Tomida married in 2005.

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Top Tracks

1	Bedroom Bossa Band	97
2	Leaves Falling full track	94
3	Good Morning Melody	84
4	Pajama Party Pop	83
5	Floating Away	64
6	the bedtime beatbox full track	63
7	Magical...	62
7	Sleepytime Samba full track	62
9	Thoughts And Clouds	61
10	Wake Up Wake Up full track	60
11	Building Castles In The Sky	52
12	the bathtime beat full track	50
13	Yesterday full track	45
14	My Petit Prelude full track	37
15	marching to sleep full track	36

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gregorffle wrote:
12 days ago

lovely people, lovely band, crosses the void of dream

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haraco wrote:
28 days ago

bedroom bossa band のビデオがとっても好きです*素敵なアイデアが各所に散りばめられてて、素直に好きです。また面白いビデオ作って下さいね*

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sosososorry wrote:
November 2009

loving it foreverforeverzzzz zzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzz

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NickScott wrote:
November 2009

sounds like a band I'd like to get to know

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sosososorry wrote:
November 2009

interesting fact: they swallow

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bitraptor wrote:
November 2009

this band sucks a dick.

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lyul-ka wrote:
November 2009

чудесные.

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Diminuendo_ wrote:
November 2009

http://lullatone.bandcamp.com/ awesome.

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johntardsbaby66 wrote:
October 2009

raymond scott eh? i'll have to check them out.

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alb3rtonet wrote:
October 2009

What an amazing music... so relaxing!

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triping wrote:
October 2009

sweet harmony i love it hugs; forever

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ascensionday wrote:
September 2009

Sounds like Colleen to me. Surprised she's not in Similar Artists.

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artsyhipster wrote:
September 2009

<3<3<3<3<3

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edelhelene wrote:
August 2009

yeah*** i saw you in germany/dockville, too - amazing***

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waxamillion wrote:
August 2009

come to san francisco on your way home

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Feanorr wrote:
August 2009

And isn't this the most joyful thing ever seen on the internet? http://www.lullatone.com/news/raindrop-melody-maker-2/ - isn't it? I sometimes wish I'd know all this great stuff, which is certainly out there.

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Feanorr wrote:
August 2009

On the Dockville festival in Hamburg, they had a little room in a small wooden shag, where there lied pillows and stuff, and you could lay down and watch some videos, and then there was a video with music by lullatone, and even more, and I really enjoyed laying there after some hard festival days, chilling out to this music. I get me the record and use it for relaxing purposes.

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ARGBDude wrote:
August 2009

I love Yoshimi's voice

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toriweldon wrote:
August 2009

If anybody's missing My Petit Melodies, Shawn put it up for download on their website: http://www.lullatone.com/music/my-petit-melodies/#more-476

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Cox_of_Seagulls wrote:
July 2009

I made a Lullatone group if anyone is interested!

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	the bathtime beat full track	2:09
	Bedroom Bossa Band	2:43
	Good Morning Melody	5:00

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News

10k races

8 Nov 2009 | from www.lullatone.com

I finished my first official 10km race (in 46min 13sec !) ,with a cold You have to wear a mask here if you have a cold to not spread around your germs… I wasn’t just pretending to be a dentist.

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