Earth Voices

Amanda Tosoff

Label: Empress Music Group
Released: 2021
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Track Listing

1. A Dream Within a Dream (feat. Emilie-Claire Barlow) 2. Sonnet 49 (feat. Robin Dann) 3. Here and Heaven (feat. Michelle Willis & Alex Samaras) 4. Birdwings (feat. Alex Samaras) 5. Oh, Life (feat. Laila Biali & Alex Samaras) 6. The Fiddle and the Drum (feat. Lydia Persaud) 7. To a Stranger (feat. Felicity Williams w/ strings) 8. Finis (feat. Emilie-Claire Barlow) Vocalists and composers listed above. Music arranged by Amanda Tosoff

Personnel

Amanda Tosoff

piano

Kelly Jefferson

saxophone, tenor

Allison Au

saxophone, alto

Aline Homzy

violin

Beth Silver

cello

Jeremy Potts

violin

Laurence Schaufele

viola

Alex Goodman

guitar

Jon Maharaj

bass

Morgan Childs

drums

Emilie-Claire Barlow

voice / vocals

Robin Dann

voice / vocals

Michelle Willis

voice / vocals

Laila Biali

voice / vocals

Lydia Persaud

voice / vocals

Felicity WIlliams

voice / vocals

Alex Samaras

voice / vocals

Additional Personnel / Information

Produced by Amanda Tosoff & David Hermiston Engineered & mixed by David Hermiston Recorded at Revolution Recording Mastered by João Carvalho Art by Sonia Beckwith

Album Description

Merging the deep, powerful messages of poetry with adventurous modern jazz, Toronto-based pianist/composer Amanda Tosoff leads a hybrid ensemble with strings and seven rotating vocalists on Earth Voices, the follow-up to her Juno Award-nominated album Words. The compositions and orchestrations are sonorous, texturally rich, with a string quartet, guitarist Alex Goodman, and guest saxophonists Allison Au and Kelly Jefferson augmenting the lineup. Featuring the voices of: Emilie-Claire Barlow, Laila Biali, Michelle Willis, Lydia Persaud, Robin Dann, Felicity Williams, and Alex Samaras – and poetry from: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Joni Mitchell, Soulpepper Theatre, and more.