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Album Title: Circlesongs Sony 1997 Rating: ****
Prime Artist: Bobby McFerrin
Engineer: Chris Tergesen
Vocal: Kirsten Falke
Vocal: Bobby McFerrin
Vocal: Nick Bearde
Vocal: Joey Blake
Vocal: Sussan Deyhim
Vocal: Raz Kennedy
Vocal: Beth Quist
Vocal: Paul Hillier
Vocal: Rhiannon
Vocal: Janis Siegel
Vocal: Pamela Warrick Smith
Vocal: David Worm
Vocal: Pierre Cook
Producer: Linda Goldstein
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Review: A most unusual album. One of Bobby's concert staples when he did small

concerts was to pull about 12 members of the audience onstage and teach them

small vocal 'parts'. He would then conduct his 'voicestra'.



On this one, he takes 12 talented professional vocalists and makes a recording of

the same concept. Each 'circlesong' has no intelligible lyrics, and the music goes

in a round.



The effect is somewhat hypnotic. I find it very meditative, like some of the

baroque music. I enjoy listening to it while doing detailed work on the computer.
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What Others Say:
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Tracks: 1 Circlesong One *

2 Circlesong Two *

3 Circlesong Three *

4 Circlesong Four *

5 Circlesong Five *

6 Circlesong Six *

7 Circlesong Seven *

8 Circlesong Eight *
. Tracks with a trailing * are missing lyrics in the linked files
Album Length (hrs:min): 0:42 Mag: 173.3
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