#vocal music

[lionofchaeronea]

Billie Holiday - I'm a Fool to Want You (Official Audio)

Some music for your Saturday night. Enjoy.

[ash-creates]

This is one of my most recent songwriting works! Apologies for crunchy audio 😅 it's just a snippet right now, but I really like it. Lyrics under the cut.

The daydreams of people I knew are losing colour Like a vintage film I played one too many times over Paintings slowly going yellow in the light A picture of a party that faded over time

Hey man, it's been a while, we should get together sometime soon I know you're busy all week, how's Sunday afternoon? I got nothing going on, and there's frost out on the lawn I don't wanna be a bother, call me back, like, if you want?

I'll get you lunch, and we can go out somewhere fun If I can keep you busy, will you forget that it's been months? I'm sorry for not reaching out, the bridges I built are coming down I'll try to keep you entertained if you keep me around

Hey girl, it's been a while, we should hang out sometime soon I promise I'm not boring, I'll find something for us to do I got nothing going on, and there's frost out on the lawn I don't wanna be a bother, text me back, like,��if you want?

[eastern-lights]

This might just be the closest I have got to what I would like the finished Chant to sound like. (although at times my mic had trouble handling my belting lmao, sorry about that)

Lyrics:

O Maker, hear my cry, guide me through the blackest nights, steel my heart against temptation, make me to rest in the warmest places.

O Creator, see me kneel, for I walk only where You would bid me, stand only in places You have blessed, sing only the words You place in my throat.

My Maker, know my heart, take from me a life of sorrow, lift me from a world of pain, judge me worthy of Your endless pride.

My Creator, judge me whole, (My Creator...) find me well within your grace, (...find me...) touch me with fire that I be cleansed, (...touch me...) tell me I have sung to Your approval. (...tell me I have Your approval.)

O Maker, hear my cry, (O Maker...) (Maker, hear my cry...) seat my by Your side in death, (...seat me by Your side...) (...seat me by Your side...) make me one within Your glory, (...make me one...) (...make me one...) and let the world once more see Your favor. (...let the world see Your favor.) (...and let the world see Your favor.)

[countesspetofi]

The song that got me into Baroque music 🎶

One of my favorite English Baroque pieces. I used to sing it many years ago, but I think this is my new favorite performance. The lutenist weaves a while new realization of Purcell’s figured bass that’s super fresh, and the countertenot’s voice is smooth as glass, with ornamentation that kept me on my toes until the final resolution. And check out the text painting on “eas’d” and “drop;” cool stuff!! I think jazz fans would like this version as much as classical. 

Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Wond'ring how your pains were eas'd And disdaining to be pleas'd Till Alecto free the dead From their eternal bands, Till the snakes drop from her head, And the whip from out her hands. Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile.

--Music by Henry Purcell (1659-1695) text by John Dryden (1631-1700)

,countertenor,alecto,the furies,greek mythology

[czardasm]

Hard work desk

[thesobsister]

Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares singing live at @kexp-blog-blog.

"Gorgeous" and "unearthly" are two adjectives commonly applied to the group and their recordings and performnces. Their 1997 eponymous LP opened ears on both sides of the Atlantic to the beauty of sung minor-second intervals and other lovely "dissonances."

RIYL Dakhabrakha

[eseomo]

The Choire

[average-emo-enigma]

Oh yeah I’m completely fine with my singing voice as long as I’m changing it to the point where it’s completely unrecognizable and you can’t hear my natural accent or voice

[iamlisteningto]

KMRU’s Temporary Stored II

[sjwallin]

Excited to find out that two of my compositions are in the National Finals for the American Prize!!

Find these two pieces on this album:

[theartofmany]

"- Psalm 50 A Psalm of David" From Youtube channel Trio Mandili: Trio Mandili - Psalm 50 So beautiful...

[myvinylplaylist]

Dean Martin: As Matt Helm Sings Songs From "The Silencers" (1966)

Columbia Pictures

Reprise Records

[thekingcomposer]

The tough part about composing choir music is that audiences want lyrics that are modern and relate to them. So, unless you have connections with a living poet, you are forced to use poems in the public domain that all say stuff like:

WYNNE THAY REDCHIRP SPLITTETH THAY SUMMNER MUOON, ALL HEEAED THAY WARNYNS OF THAY MUOONLAITE

ALSO I AM SEXIST

[thesobsister]

Stile Antico, "Vadam et circuibo" (T.L. de Victoria)

From the group's excellent Song of Songs LP.