THE STORY

It’s been said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. This album’s journey of a thousand notes began with a single notion. What if “Eye of the Tiger” was a lullaby?

We often hear from beautiful people such as yourself that much of our music can be used as a sleep aid -- a symphonic prescription for insomnia. In fact, one of our favorite emails of all time was from a brave Navy man who served on a submarine. In his letter he talked about his struggle with claustrophobia. Can you imagine? He couldn’t get to sleep at night in his shoebox-sized space. Until, he said, he found our music. Every night he’d don his headphones, hit play and then close his eyes. He said our music would transport him to a place where there was plenty of room for peace of mind. He could finally fall asleep. Stories like this made us want to compose a whole album full of musical melatonin. But not just any old lullabies -- with cliché melodies and toy box sounds.

We wanted to go all out (as we like to do). We wanted to rewrite household “hits” with a thoughtful lullaby filter to see if they could stand up to helping people like you lie down. The result of such an endeavor is now in your hands. We spent many wakeful hours meditating over each note. Each cadence. Then, you could say, we slept on it. We dreamed of people like you enjoying deeper REM. We envisioned people like that courageous claustrophobic serviceman. We wrote what came to our heads as we pondered over you parents who tirelessly, and often sleeplessly, love your children into becoming their best selves, praying for them as they slumber. We wrote what came to our fingers, empathizing with you insomniacs whose creative minds refuse to turn off at night. We know how that feels. We hope you’ll trust this album to be part of your nightly routine -- a soundtrack to soundly sleep by.

Thank you from the bottom of our feather pillows for supporting us by purchasing this album. Without you all our dreams would still be asleep. This music is dedicated to a loving Heavenly Father and Mother who have been so supremely patient with us when we’ve fallen asleep mid-prayer, or napped when we should have been wide awake, skipping our A major scales for some Z’s instead.

We still need a lot of practice at being “instruments” in their hands. At the end of the day, despite a wrong note or two (or three), we know they love us. And we know they love you. We hope you can hear that in this music. With love and gratitude, wishing you sweet dreams,

Al, Jon, Paul, and Steve