Jane Sheldon - I am a tree, I am a mouth (2022) [Hi-Res]

I am a tree, I am a mouth is the latest album from soprano/composer Jane Sheldon.

“conceptually brilliant… a vocal and compositional triumph, beautifully realised with splendid restraint.” - Limelight Magazine

The album’s vocal duets draw their lyrics from Rainer Maria Rilke’s stunning and timeless Book of Hours, a work of ardent odes to the ineffable, first published in 1905. The songs’ palette consists of just two voices, both sung by Jane, and a rich array of drones constructed from gong resonances, electronically stretched, slowed, and sculpted into an ever-active texture gently turning beneath the interwoven voices.

The art songs of I am a tree, I am a mouth owe their language as much to Maryanne Amacher and drone music as to lieder and Hildegard von Bingen.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Jane Sheldon - I am (4:13)
1.02 - Jane Sheldon - Through massive mountains (3:01)
1.03 - Jane Sheldon - My life is not this steep hour (3:06)
1.04 - Jane Sheldon - Now the hour bends down (3:21)
1.05 - Jane Sheldon - In the deep nights I dig for you (4:27)
1.06 - Jane Sheldon - Put my eyes out: I can see you (3:12)
1.07 - Jane Sheldon - I find you in all things (6:51)
1.08 - Jane Sheldon - Gong coda (4:26)