Nobody could accuse Vida of shilly-shallying about here. The first track very quickly establishes the template for this album: he and experimental vocalist Nina Dante declaim found poetry in a monotone, the two of them in perfect synchronicity so that their voices sound like two halves of a single entity, over a backing of new-agey burbling woodwinds and a simple piano line. On the remaining three tracks, the collaborators vary — we get local favourites Christina Vantzou and Felicia Atkinson, as well as a second round with Dante — and so does the choice of instruments — we get plenty of glockenspiel action, unless it’s a marimba — but the basic idea is the same. Handily, it’s a superbly original idea, and it’s executed with a deft sense of timing and structure. It has a kind of cumulative effect on me, so the sum ends up being greater than the sum of its parts. It’s calming and transporting and generally rather wonderful.
I bought this from Boomkat. They call it Modern Classical / Ambient.
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