Boston based guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan releases his second solo album “New Lullaby” on the new independent label Six String Sound. “New Lullaby” features music for guitar solo commissioned by 13 American composers. These are lullabies like you've never heard before-14 intriguing and unexpectedly rich miniatures exploring a diverse range of classical musical styles.

Why Lullabies? Larget-Caplan first recorded a modern lullaby on his debut CD, “Tracing a wheel on water” and found that listeners loved the piece, and often requested it. It got him thinking. He decided to explore the lullaby genre anew, so he put out a call for scores via friends, colleagues, and Facebook to reach out to composers who might consider writing a short work that re-imagines the lullaby. What he got was over 20 nighttime miniatures, 14 of which are on “New Lullaby”. From an imagining of Adam and Eve's first lullaby to morning and leaky roof lullabies, with works inspired by Goethe, Stephen Foster, and songs that incorporate Cheyenne melodies, whistling, and the sound of a TV gone to snow, these are not your simple soothing melodies meant just for bedtime, but mini-narratives in sound that venture into the territory of dream states.

When asked about the project, Larget-Caplan explains how the album and these pieces have come to have a special personal resonance for him. Just after the start of the commissioning process and receiving the first lullabies from David Leisner and Frank Wallace, he and his wife suffered a devastating house fire that left them, for a short time, homeless and a long time, sleepless.

Larget-Caplan says, "The irony of creating this project during this tumultuous period of my life is not lost on me. That said, three and half years out, we're getting more settled, but the fear and worry for each other and our futures has taken longer to get over. My sleepless nights were often spent alone with my guitar, as my wife needed to sleep to recover from injuries sustained in an accident a couple months after the fire. The whole experience made me reassess what I am really grateful for: the people I love, the sounds I live with, and the music that reminds me of what's real and alive, and also what I’m here for." During the fire his music, and many instruments were lost, but his best guitar was rescued, and the firefighter who carried the instrument out of the house is Aaron's hero. After hearing about the fire, one of the commissioned lullaby composers, John McDonald, decided that this dark part of reality would be reflected in his lullaby. Aaron says, "When I play these works now, it is a real reminder to me of all that music can evoke and soothe." He sleeps a lot better these days.

New Lullaby Composer:
Composers: David Leisner (Manhattan School of Music), Scott Wheeler (Emerson), John McDonald (Tufts), Carson Cooman (Harvard), Francine Trester (Berklee), Lynn Job (UNT), David Vayo (Illinois Weslyan), Kevin Siegfried (Boston Conservatory), Eric Schwartz (N. Carolina School for the Arts), Ryan Vigil, (Univ. New Hampshire), Nolan Stolz (Hartt School of Music), Mark Small and Jonathan Feist (New England Conservatory/Berklee)

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