(SA Recordings)
It might sound a bit Vic Reeves, but go past the giggles and the experimental vocalists and this compilation touches profundity in fascinating ways
The first time you witness a truly experimental vocalist, you could be forgiven for believing that you’re watching Vic Reeves’ absurdist comedy. These performers create art from all the stray noises – sibilants, clicks, breaths and plosives – that sound engineers usually try to disguise. Once you get beyond the initial shock and stifled giggles, these performances initiate a profound examination about the nature of sound, the inarticulacy of speech, the limitations of musical instruments and the blurring of melody, harmony and rhythm as categories.
These are all clearly things that interest the American sound artist, composer and saxophonist Lea Bertucci. She is best known for making drone-based, site-specific works that explore acoustics, but Xtended Vox is a compilation of contemporary artists who are doing extraordinary things with their vocal cords. Bertucci herself contributes to one track – a duet with composer Ben Vida, previously of New York outfit Town & Country – featuring garbled whispers and stray burbles that have been put through assorted FX pedals and cut and spliced into a shimmering soundscape.
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