Friday, April 11, 2025

música de boca



 Well there was I,  thinking I'd heard pretty much all of the mouth music out-thereness worth hearing - and then I stumbled, in a second-hand record shop in the East Village, yards from where we used to live, on an artist I'd never ever come across before: Carles Santos. A real polymath, it appears. But this particular album Voice Tracks, from 1980, contains a "Starsailor"-level voicescape titled "Autoretrat". 


Now I'm kicking myself I didn't pick up the LP.  It wasn't even insanely priced. 







It can be found at YouTube and on the streamers. 

Another fab repository of mouth music is 1989's Five Voices - an abstract-vocalese quintet involving vaguely recognised names like Ann Homler, Shelley Hirsch and David Moss as well as Santos. 




This next one ultra-sibilant and edging into avant-asmr territory



This next one is madcap - ludic yet alarming


Bit of recitative amid the crone babble here







Voice-only stuff crops up again in his variegated output




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