Spacious overtone music

Hello all,

I have a new album out called "The Way Beyond" that I'd like you to
know about.

Some of you here know that I've been making music for several years,
primarily using vocal overtones as inspiration. Early on my group
Spectral Voices sang inside a vast empty water tower, (where
we 'played the space' - this also inspired our creativity), and two
recordings came out from those adventures: "Coalescence" and "Sky."

Since the demise of the water tower we've been working with
electronic reverb to recreate the spaciousness of it (it also makes
performing this music more practical - imagine the logistics of
getting an audience into a water tower!!). We've also been
experimenting with a looping device (digital Echoplex) - which I've
used extensively when performing and recording solo to have
a "virtual choir" supporting me on the fly.

"The Way Beyond" is one offspring from this approach.

One favorite exercise (that is used many times on TWB) is to sing a
relatively 'consonant' chord with the fundamentals and play with the
overtones to create intense shimmery dissonances, beat tones etc.

Thought I'd leave you with another's impressions of this work but
first here's a link to audio clips of "The Way Beyond:"

http://www.spectralvoices.com/clips.htm

...reposting these comments by Bill Beck that were
originally posted to the Yahoo spacemusic list:

"Every remarkable sound on the 70+ minute continuous piece is sourced
by his voice. Quiet, calming, and meditative; deeply textured and
sublime. Achingly poignant. I'm thinking that some of us will be
talking about Jim Cole's brand-new release, "The Way Beyond," for a
very long time.

I can recall only one other spacemusic release effecting upon me such
a profound misty-eyed reaction during my first hearing.

And now that the CD has, here, been thrice journeyed through, it can
be told. I never dreamed "Coalescence" would ever be surpassed as
this artist's masterstroke, but, in my opinion, it just has.

Plain and simple, music like this is why I'm here."

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Thanks Bill!

And thanks to all of you here (including esp. List Mom!) for your
consideration - I'd love any constructive feedback about the music
etc.

~Jim
http://www.spectralvoices.com