Voicescapes

Thomas and I have been singing together since 2017. There's a kind of trust that builds between two voices over that much time, something unspoken that you can't manufacture in a studio in an afternoon.

In 2018 we went to Karmacrew Studio on the island of Møn with nothing prepared. No material, no plan, no other sound sources. Just two voices in a room, and whatever happened between them.

What came out was Voicescapes.

I've always believed that the voice carries more than sound. It carries memory, breath, attention, the particular weight of another person listening back at you. Thomas sings from that place. His baritone and my extended techniques don't compete, they find each other. Ten tracks, each named for what it does: Floating, Longing, Blessing, Hide. The titles came after, but they were always already there in the music.

Jan Granlie wrote in Salt Peanuts that if you want to hear something genuinely new in the vocal world, you need to sit down with this album. That you won't find vocal art like this every day. That felt true to me. Not because I made it, but because Thomas was there too.

Voicescapes came out January 22, 2021 on Chant Records, on CD, LP and digital.