![]() He penned some of the group’s most notable tracks, including ‘Morning In America,’ and sang lead on ‘Is It Any Wonder?’ – the latter an instant sweet soul classic anchored by Aaron’s falsetto, which caught the ear of producer and Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach. The Brooklyn-based, Baltimore-raised songwriter first came into the international spotlight as multi-instrumentalist and co-lead singer for Durand Jones & The Indications. “I’m excited to keep breaking some of the expectations around what exactly I’m supposed to be artistically and musically, or what this scene as a whole can be.” We have this opportunity to be inspired by and take direction from our musical forerunners, and also what’s happening now - from contemporary hip hop, from pop music,” Frazer says. “I didn’t want Introducing… to be an exact recreation of an era or a style. "Lullabies turn up a lot across cultures – they're just everywhere," says Mehr.Introducing…, Aaron Frazer’s debut solo album, co-released on Easy Eye Sound and Dead Oceans, is a testament to his wide-ranging influence and showcases deep gratitude for his musical community. Parents have been singing to their children for ages, all over the world. And in another study, mothers that sang to their children for 90 minutes in a group felt more closeness to their infants than mothers that talked and played but did not sing. One study of nearly 400 mothers in England found that singing to babies daily was associated with less postpartum depression and higher wellbeing and self-esteem. There is some evidence that singing to infants can help boost a parent's confidence (that superhero feeling I get). Mehr says that reflects his own experience as a parent, but as a researcher he thinks that kind of long-term study would be hard to do. "You can imagine that a parent who learns that this is the case and actually increases the amount of time that they spend, you could imagine all these follow-on effects, where the baby's easier to soothe, so the parent's more chilled out and not as stressed about being a parent, which is already a pretty stressful thing," he says. Mehr says the fact that babies respond especially well to lullabies brings up lots of ideas for future long-term research. But parents tend to sing more to babies than kids as they get older. Singing does seem to help older kids relax, too – as evidenced by my 8-year-old. They can tell you're really paying attention to them and responding to their emotions in real time. "The fact that you're singing a lullaby when the baby's upset, you're not doing some other thing like that – the baby can tell that you're doing only that," he says. He thinks the behaviors and actions involved when a parent sings to their child also may play a role. If a stranger came and started singing to your kid, it probably wouldn't have the same effect. ![]() He points out that doesn't explain everything, though. So there's something in the kind of DNA of lullaby that helps to calm infants." The babies found all the songs pretty relaxing, he says, "but when they're listening to these lullabies, even though they're totally unfamiliar and not in a language the baby understands, they relax more. ![]() His team did a study playing songs for infants in an unfamiliar language – some of the songs were lullabies, and some weren't. Still, there is just something about lullabies, says Sam Mehr, who studies the psychology of music at the University of Auckland. If you really don't want to sing, a backrub can have similar effects, she says. You can sing with any level of enthusiasm or skill, as long as it's slow tempo. But Fields says that is not a requirement for this to work. "They slept better, but they also showed a lot of the effects of decreased heart rate and respiration, better feeding, which probably explains why they had fewer days in the neonatal intensive care unit and their mothers' anxiety was reduced." "What they found was that the mothers' lullabies were more soothing to the infants," she says. Many of the studies on music and sleep are done with preterm infants in the NICU – including one which compared infants who heard Mozart to infants who heard their mother's lullabies plus a control group that didn't hear any music. With the preschoolers it was a 19% faster sleep onset, so of course the teachers loved that," she says. "With the toddlers there was a 35% faster sleep onset. The teachers played classical music at the beginning of naptime. She did a study of toddlers and preschoolers taking naps at the university nursery schools.
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