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Bedtime Beats:'The Secret to Sleep Usually, when I write a review, I like to let the songs play in the background, hoping that it will inspire me to some new revelation as I write. In this instance, though, I can’t risk it; every single time I play either disk from this two-disk set, I start to drift off. I’m not kidding!

For insomniacs, this collection could work better than Sominex. My normal procedure for any review is to listen straight through every note of music at least once, and then listen twice more, emphasizing the bits that made the deepest impression. Nearly a month ago, I thought I would do just that, but this disk threw that methodology right out of the window. For three weeks, I listened to this collection at home, at night, in the environment that it is intended for – my bedroom. For three weeks straight, I fell asleep before track five…

How can I write a responsible review if I can’t even stay conscious while listening? Determined to do the right thing, it occurred to me that maybe I should alter the environment. For instance, I could listen to “Bedtime Beats” while driving, but there’s no way that I’d risk it. If the potency of the formula carried over, I could kill somebody, so here is all I can tell you about “Bedroom Beats – The Secret to Sleep”;

1) The title is really stupid. There is nothing resembling a ‘beat’ anywhere on this collection (or at least not on the first four tracks). Percussion players need not apply. Some tracks barely have a ‘tempo’.

2) The first four tracks on either disk vary from entrancing (an excerpt from “Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major” and Debussy’s “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair”) to corny (Vaughn Williams’ “Fantasia on Greensleeves.”

3) It works. The stated intention of the collection is to promote rest, and I can personally vouch for its validity in that regard. As for the quality of the music on this collection, though, you’ll have to ask someone else. …Yawn…..
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