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Unaccompanied Voice An A Cape [Compilation]

Various (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

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Audio CD (Feb 18 2008)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Compilation
Label: Secretly Canadian
ASIN: B00004U8RY

Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #236,845 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #7 in Music > Alternative Rock > Compilations > Indie Rock

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1. Farewell To Nova Scotia - Sharon Topper & Fly
2. Four Nights Drunk - Appendix Out
3. La Vie En Rose - Mia Doi Todd
4. Around & Around - Mark Kozelek
5. Rosary - Drunk
6. Blackberry - Nikki McClure
7. Breadwinner You - Pedro The Lion
8. Om - Jandek
9. Under The Rug - Dave Fischoff
10. Hits Keep Comin' - The Grifters
11. Goodbye Second & Main (Pink Violence) - Swearing At Motorists
12. The Gypsy Daisy/Pinafore Blues - David Grubbs
13. Daniel - The Japonize Elephants
14. Allhallow's Eve - Danielson Famile
15. Leaflets Gabe - Modest Mouse
16. Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down - Richard Buckner & P.W. Long
17. And I Name Myself Hag - Jarboe
18. Kindly Blessed - Mimi Parker & Alan Sparhawk
19. Dance Hall Places - Damien Jurado
20. Tzara - Elliot Sharp
See all 24 tracks on this disc

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This compilation takes the inclusiveness of indie rock's DIY (do-it-yourself) ideology to a logical extreme by getting 24 underground rock-based artists to contribute an unaccompanied vocal. A capella singing is as accessible as music gets--who hasn't, at some point or another, lifted their voice and sung out loud? Some of the contributors to this disc are moderately well known, some quite unknown, and their performances range from impressive executions of technically complex vocal music to artless bellowing. There is a lot to like about the efforts at each extreme, especially when they're surprise discoveries. Who'd have thought that guitarist Elliott Sharp was a passable throat singer? That someone in the Grifters was such a good human beat box? Or that visual artist Nikki McClure could sound so breathlessly sexy on "Blackberry"? I have no idea who the Japonize Elephants are or how they got their name, but they do a great rousing job on the hymn "Daniel." Just one caveat--Richard Buckner and P.W. Long's rendering of "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down" is so dreadfully misogynistic one hopes they're wrong. --Bill Meyer

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5.0 out of 5 stars Jandek Aug 8 2003

By Spiffy

Format:Audio CD

It has Jandek on it.. come on! Buy this for the horrible, yet fun Modest Mouse song if not for anything else. I can't rate this, it gets no rating, its a novelty item. Don't take things so seriously.

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4.0 out of 5 stars It's not pretty, but it is pretty cool May 17 2002

By Kalle

Format:Audio CD

If you're a college radio listener, or and indie fan or even just a bizarre music junkie, how can you pass this up?
Innovative, if weird, bands and performers singing accepella!
Like any of these compilations, there are gems and , well, lets just say songs that aren't so gemmy. But who doesnt need a haunting version of La Vie en Rose in their collection?

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