Luscinia's Lullaby, by Laurel MacDonald

Luscinia's Lullaby

by Laurel MacDonald

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1.	Nenia Sirenes 05:08	buy track
2.	Ysaiophony 04:04	buy track
3.	Luscinia's Lullaby 05:56	buy track
4.	Flutter 03:41	buy track
5.	Envelope of Many 03:06	buy track
6.	Song for this Child 03:47	buy track
7.	Cadal Chan Fhaigh Mi 06:41	buy track
8.	Beauty Found Me 05:55	buy track
9.	Murmur of Pearl 03:53	buy track
10.	Sirenaria 06:18	buy track

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#1 ‘Essential Echoes’ CD of the year, Public Radio International

“stratospheric audio adventures... producer Philip Strong takes her versatile voice and wide-ranging musical curiosity and hits the frappe button”

- Stephen Cooke, The Chronicle Herald

“this spiritual stepchild of Eno and Laurie Anderson has crafted yet another haunting and haunted disc... Laurel MacDonald’s name on this album is synonymous with a complete aural vision”

- Bob Klanac, Scene

“you won’t find a vast philosophical difference between MacDonald’s Song for This Child and Brian Wilson’s Our Prayer from Smile in terms of harmonic complexity, melodic twists, and spiritual depth... Luscinia’s Lullaby weaves its world music influences and MacDonald’s voice into a kind of waking dream.”

- Bob Tarte, The Beat

Laurel MacDonald has built her recording career on a production style characterized by the use of multiple layers of her voice, with eclectic instrumentation and soundscapes concocted by producer and sound designer Philip Strong. They revel in playing along musical peripheries, and juxtapose disparate elements with ingenuity and beguiling sleight of hand.

MacDonald’s vocals dovetail and spiral in bewitchingly complex layers. She sings with simmering intensity and wistful fragility: here, a spine-tingling invocation; there, a sleepless lullaby. From boyish soprano to husky alto; from yodels to whispers to wails.

A record to defy the tyranny of musical genre-fication, Luscinia’s eludes description as if the act of elusion were itself a game. A torch song rife with playful innuendo is accompanied by slithering slide guitar and liquid violins. A trippy, groove-driven polyphonic chant generates a new wave of mediaeval funkadelia. A gaggle of Venusian doo-wop girls warble and croon their way through a jubilant rhapsody. An aching lament is borne forth on shimmering triangle, vacuum hose spinning through a cloud of delay, and tube drum with undertones verging on the subsonic, conjured to resonate through your body and into your bones.

With Luscinia’s Lullaby Laurel MacDonald and Philip Strong hurl their sonic mirror ball into the stratosphere to create a pulsing, buzzing, soaring vocal fantasia. Perk up your earthling ears.

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released January 15, 2005

Phil Strong, Producer

Daniel Barnes, Drums
Anne Bourne, Cello
Ian de Souza, Electric Bass
Andrew Downing, String Bass
Jayne Maddison, Violin
Kim Ratcliffe, Guitar
Phil Strong, Percussion, Guitar

Mastered by David Travers-Smith

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Laurel MacDonald Toronto, Ontario

Laurel MacDonald is a singer, composer and video artist. She has released 5 critically-acclaimed CDs and has performed extensively, most recently in She Sings as She Flies and Patchwork (both with Mary Jane Lamond), in her solo project Videovoce, in the dance productions SDX (Kaeja d’Dance) and Moving Parts (Fujiwara Dance), and as a member of the Georgian ensemble Darbazi. ... more

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