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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Jim Cole & Spectral Voices
Title......: Sky (Harmonic Singing in a Water Tower)
Rip Date...: 2009-05-16 Cat.No.....: Spectral Spiral 2
Style......: Ambient Label......: Spectral Spiral Music
Quality....: VBRk Type.......: Album
Size.......: 76.86MB Source.....: CD
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
Without the aid of overdubs, instruments or processing, Jim Cole & Spectral
Voices achieve ephemeral a cappella excellence... Within a 120-ft. water
tower, Cole, Alan Dow and Sharen Baker entwine their voices in upwardly
spiraling choruses of formless beauty.
Sky is filled with unbelievable audio-apparitions as the trio outsings any
music-making device...
Haunting traces of almost-monastic tunefulness seep from the amorphous
streams of vocal drones which are For the Birds (14:31); call me
incredulous, but I'm still amazed that these sounds are simply untreated
voices... of course, they're "overtone" singing within a large-yet-confined
space, and the results are simultaneously thrilling and soothing. The
uninterrupted flows allow time for contemplation; one can ask questions
like, "When do they breathe!?"
Lush, diffuse choral strands rise and fall with Kyrie Eleison's continually
surging vocal drifts. Ever-expanding layers seem to trace a distant, gently
meandering shoreline in human-powered tones that no synthesizer could hope
to mimic.
A four-part section, Passion opens with its 10-minute title piece wherein
those slightly monk-like vocal chords wash back and forth as if floating on
slow-motion waves, and when everything recedes, the loveliness only becomes
stronger. The breathy currents of closing track Know Way (Way) (4:10) are
highlighted by the ringing harmonics which dance above all like an aural
aurora.
Sky isn't the first time Jim Cole & Spectral Voices have united in ethereal
song with "the water tower"; for a little more behind-the-scenes insight,
read Jim's response to this month's QOM question...
Fill your space with nearly an hour of unparalleled vocalizations...
p l a y l i s t
1 For the Birds 14:31
2 From the Birds 6:07
3 Kyrie Eleison 9:14
4 Passion 10:02
5 Uplifting 7:51
6 Spacious Sighs 5:28
7 Know Way (Way) 4:10
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57:23
g r e e t i n g s
1way - agw - amok - bass - bcc - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe - uki
xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl