Sheldon, Jane
I Am A Tree, I Am A Mouth
Having carved out a niche performing groundbreaking chamber opera around the world, Australian singer Jane Sheldon's first solo album finds a path through the combination of Rainer Maria Rilke (a German poet dead for almost a century), her voice and seven gongs. On 'I Am A Tree, I Am A Mouth,' working with one gong for each song, Sheldon launches herself into experiments with layered voices, electronic processing, and super-slowed-down fragments of sonic resonance, where she skirts the edge of avant rock to find her true singular voice.