From trance-dance rhythms to prayerful stillness, Unspoken dissolves boundaries of musical genre,
melding indigenous chants and rhythms with visionary compositions that quiet the mind and set the
body dancing. Beginning with Sieber's pulsing, ambient cello and vocals in "Opening", a current of
multi-layered sound carries the listener seamlessly from the contemplative depths of "Benediction",
through the rushing torrent of percussion, flute, bass, vocals and cello in "The River Between" to
Ulali's primal cries at the close of "Night Song". In the center of the journey, Benjy Wertheimer's
esraj and Jami's electric cello weave an lush interior world that gives birth to the irresistible
grooves of the two worldbeat dance tracks, "Broken Open" and "Unspoken," which fuse Native American
chanting with layers upon layers of exotic instrumentation. The CD closes with the heart-opening track,
"Returning," set in a quartet of cellos with guitars, percussion and organ.
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[hifilofi] 01-Opening (4:57)
[hifilofi] 02-Benediction (6:32)
[hifilofi] 03-The River Between (6:04)
[hifilofi] 04-Night Song (8:21)
[hifilofi] 05-6 O'Clock News (2:14)
[hifilofi] 06-The Moon Inside (6:57)
[hifilofi] 07-Listening (3:22)
[hifilofi] 08-A Dialogue of Silk (5:04)
[hifilofi] 09-Broken Open (5:37)
[hifilofi] 10-Unspoken (6:49)
[hifilofi] 11-Returning (7:10)