Mouth music, although there's barely any sense of mouth or throat or any physical mechanism of breath shaping here, so pure and airy are these bodiless tones
Claire Thomas & Susan Vevey turn out remarkably to be an alias of Philip Sanderson of DIY microlegends Snatch Tapes
The whole project is well worth a glisten - https://snatchtapes.bandcamp.com/album/reprint
The first track - which appeared on Cherry Red's 1981 Perspectives and Distortion comp - reminds me of this other Cherry Red etherealism
Which led to this
and this
and this
this too
Interesting facts about Kirsty Hawkshaw the voice of Opus III via a mutual friend
- once engaged to Mark Pritchard of Global Communication
- now married to Adam F
- daughter of Alan Hawkshaw, the library music legend (as Adam F is son of Alvin Stardust)
Reminded also of the "sexy psalm" action of One Dove and of Slowdive
They done it live in a place called St. Augustine's Ampitheatre - sadly it turns out not to be an actual ecclesiastical building converted for live music, a veritable Sonic Cathedral
What is it about "purity" and the erotic?
Something about the primness (c.f those secular nuns: nurses and their uniforms), the constraint, and what might burn beneath...
Deborah Kerr's clear complexion framed by the nun's coif in Black Narcissus
Sultry Sister Ruth, delirious with repressed desire
