Hearing Solar Winds

by David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir

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Recorded in a resonant French abbey, this mesmerizing vocal project adapts traditional Mongolian and Tibetan overtone singing for a Western choir. The resulting music consists of sustained, deeply hypnotic a cappella drones where the singers manipulate natural harmonics to create ethereal, shimmering overtones above a fundamental pitch. It is widely considered a transcendent masterpiece of modern acoustic minimalism.

Genres

  • Choral
  • Drone
  • A cappella

Tracklist

  1. Rainbow Voice
  2. Multiplying Voices At the Heart of the Body of Sound
  3. Arc Descents: the Fall
  4. Gravity Waves 5. Lens By Lens. 6. Telescoping
  5. Two Poles; Ascent. 8. Ascending and Descending