Abigail Lapell Announces Lullabies Album & Shares “Isabeau”
ABIGAIL LAPELL REIMAGINES TRADITIONAL MELODIES FOR NEW ALBUM LULLABIES - WITH SONGS IN FRENCH, HEBREW, SPANISH, YIDDISH, AND MORE - OUT NOVEMBER 17, 2023 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC
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CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN OCTOBER 10
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Abigail Lapell’s Lullabies is a haunting collection of traditional songs from around the world, arranged and performed on classical guitar and vocals. Recorded by Michael Timmins at his Toronto studio, the project includes songs in English, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Yiddish, German, Japanese, and Welsh and features original guitar and vocal arrangements and, in some cases, new English lyrical adaptations. Lullabies also includes one original song in English, based on a fragment of a half-remembered bedtime song from her mother.
Today, the celebrated songwriter is sharing “Isabeau” which brings sparse plucked strings and haunting layers of vocal harmonies to the beloved traditional French lullaby. “Isabeau s'y promène” (“Isabeau Goes Walking”) tells the story of a young girl who goes walking in her garden by the water’s edge, where she meets 30 sailors aboard a boat. The youngest of them starts singing a beautiful song, which she wants to learn. With its mediaeval feel and repetitive structure, the song casts an enchanting, otherworldly spell.
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