Roomful of Teeth

Product Description Founded in 2009 by Brad Wells, Roomful of Teeth consists of eight classically-trained vocalists. During their annual residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the ensemble has studied Tuvan throat singing, belting and pop techniques, yodeling, Inuit throat singing and, in their summer 2012 residency, new techniques from Sardinia and Korea. Roomful of Teeth's debut album features seven composers who each incorporate the ensemble's polystylistic virtuosity in unique ways. From Rinde Eckert's neo-alpine yodel "Cesca's View" to Caleb Burhans's post-minimalist take on bel canto singing in "No", the album breathes fresh life into the a cappella landscape. One of this generation's most dynamic vocal talents, Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, contributes two stunning compositions. Garbus's tunes find a range of world-inspired grooves, from African pygmy yodels, Inuit rhythmic pulsing, and Appalachian hymn tunes to bracing eastern European belting, all filtered through her powerful compositional voice. New Amsterdam co-directors Judd Greenstein, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and William Brittelle each contribute debut pieces highlighting Roomful's blazingly unique skill set. Review Roomful of Teeth is an exciting young vocal octet founded just three years ago and directed by Brad Wells. And if the group's name is a little, um, in your face, that's entirely intentional. Their eponymous debut album on New Amsterdam Records (funded via Kickstarter) is a thoroughly 21st-century re-imagining of a capella vocal music - experimental, multi-textured and more than ready to blur the lines between pop and art music.Their singing is fiercely beautiful and bravely, utterly exposed. There's no electronic wash to hide imperfections, no other instruments add layers of sound. It's just these eight voices gleefully filling up a huge amount of space, and drawing upon a whole world's worth of non-traditional techniques. On the singers' website, you can check out the experts they call upon to explore non-traditional and non-Western singing techniques, from an American master of Tuvan throat-singing named Sean Quirk to Korean traditional vocalist Eun Su Kim.For this project, Roomful corralled a number of exciting composers to write for them not just a number of New Amsterdam stalwarts (including label co-directors William Brittelle, Judd Greenstein and Sarah Kirkland Snider), but most famously the polymorphously talented Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, whose 'Quizassa' is one of this album's standouts and highlights the band's taste for esoteric vocal techniques. Garbus' song bears a strong resemblance to Inuit experimental vocalist Tanya Tagaq's work (now how's that for obscure?), with a few dollops of doo-wop thrown in for good measure, and somehow it all works out beautifully. --NPR Deceptive Cadence

Detalles del producto Dimensiones del producto : 5 x 5.5 x 0.25 pulgadas; 1.62 Onzas Fabricante : New Amsterdam Número de modelo del producto : 109058B Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2012 Producto en Tienda desde : Octubre 6, 2012 Etiqueta : New Amsterdam ASIN : B008P76VNU Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº125,476 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº3,991 en Ópera y Vocal nº13,170 en Clásica Opiniones de clientes: 4.4 de 5 estrellas 57 calificaciones Dimensiones del producto : 5 x 5.5 x 0.25 pulgadas; 1.62 Onzas Fabricante : New Amsterdam Número de modelo del producto : 109058B Fecha de lanzamiento original : 2012 Producto en Tienda desde : Octubre 6, 2012 Etiqueta : New Amsterdam ASIN : B008P76VNU Número de discos : 1