This is a compilation of lullabies from around the world. I remember hearing a few tracks on Sleepbot, an ambient internet radio station, and I was curious enough to buy a copy of the album. It comes in a digipack with a 35-page booklet that describes the cultures from which the music sprang. It was obviously a labour of love and it's odd to think that it's now almost twenty years old.Overall it's mostly good. The only track I don't care for is Michelle's "Schlafe Mein Prinzchem", which is a bit Eurovision for my tastes. The rest of the music is essentially World Music Lite, but then again it *is* a set of lullabies for children. As a means of getting to sleep it suffers a bit from indifferent mixing. There is a long relaxing stretch in the middle - the tracks from Sherrilyne Blakey-Smith, Tonga, Familion, and Sophie Rockwell are particularly lovely - but the mood is dispelled by the final track, which is a Church choir. The opening track doesn't feel right for the record either. It's lovely but it's not a lullaby, it belongs on a kind of Celtic Moods compilation. At the risk of sounding like a grouch the text is hard to read, either because of the colour scheme (the booklet) or the half-toning (the sleeve).Still, it's a good source of recordings that are, as far as I can tell, exclusive to the record. It works best as a resource for part of a larger mix, and in that respect hearing it on Sleepbot actually makes more sense than listening to it in one go. It reminds me a bit of Hector Zazou's concept albums but more low-key and I suspect it would have been better as a series of records, each one concentrating on individual regions. As it stands the styles tend to clash, the end.