VocalEssence Ensemble Singers - Songs We Sang - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A year in the making, The Daysleepers return with their 2016 full length. Drowned In A Sea Of Sound takes nothing but the best elements of the band's highly acclaimed EP's and blends them with some entirely new experimental soundscapes. The Daysleepers trademark sound of mixing dreampop, post-punk and new wave styles is still very much present, and at times pushes even beyond those boundaries. Imagine the sounds of the Cure, Cocteau Twins, The Chameleons and Slowdive rolled into one. These 10 tracks touch on a wide variety of sounds and emotions ranging from spacey ethereal drones to blissful up-tempo dreampop beauty. For fans of the early out-of-print EP's, Hide Your Eyes and The Soft Attack, Drowned In A Sea Of Sound is a must have. It is proof that The Daysleepers have fully matured and discovered their true sound.

Ensemble Vocal Sequence - Sonatine Our 8 Voix / Our Le Mystere Precipte [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/22/2011

The voice has a central place in Michael Finnissy's output. His is an art of line, of connective lyric movement spun out over a breath; it is also a deeply humanist art, an art in ardent search of human connection, of which the voice, reaching out from the depths of the body into the world around us, is the primal vehicle. Finnissy's work manifests across the decades an abiding concern with the complex nature of this most bodily, most physical, most personal of instruments- what it is to give voice, to vocalize, to speak or sing in different contexts and different ways, private or public, as an individual or as part of a collective. The four works on this recording, spanning forty years, show Finnissian vocality at it's most blazingly intense displays of virtuosity that push mind and body to the limits of their flexibility, reach, stamina and control.