In Search of a Distant Voice

In'R'Voice calls all passengers for immediate boarding on Cosmicleaf Airlines, flying in high orbit to the ancient future. Mastering the art of creating futuristic sounds with analog textures, this In-R-Voice's album is a must-have for any serious explorer of distant worlds. Pack your bags for deepness and addictive grooves covered with juicy synths and a characteristic retro vibe.

The Cape Verdean singer was the preeminent force of morna music, which combines fado, jazz, and Latin.

Humi (Hugh Hopper & Yumi Hara Cawkwell) - Dune (2008) {MoonJune Records MJR019}
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© 2008 HUMI / MoonJune Records | MJR019
Avant-Garde / Jazz / Art Prog / Fusion / Avant-Prog

Of the many recordings electric bass guitarist Hugh Hopper has produced over three decades since leaving Soft Machine, this one might be the bravest and most distinctly innovative and atmospheric of his career. With the bassist teamed with keyboardist and vocalist Yumi Hara Cawkwell, the paradox of a hot, steamy desert caravan as opposed to cold and bleak deep space is somehow conjured and realized. While Cawkwell has an ethereal quality to her wordless vocals and a free sense of spatial time, Hopper uses his typical probing basslines and mixes them up with sharply framed electronic passages and the kind of forsaken, foreboding imagery heard in the most macabre movie soundtracks.

This disc brings together a selection of songs by the five members of the Mighty Handful, and serves as a useful and economical introduction to their Read more The Miserly Knight, Alexander Serov’s Judith (both on Harmonia Mundi), and Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery (BMG). He also appears in recordings of Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night and Shostakovich’s unfinished opera The Gamblers (both on Capriccio), as well as a recording of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis conducted by Antal Doráti (BIS). He has performed with major opera companies throughout the world. I have not been able to discover the reason for his name change, but it appears that at a certain point he emigrated to the U.S. You would learn little of this history from the Naxos notes.