Sonorous Susurrus
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'Sonorous Susurrus' is a double CD 22-track recording by K.I.A.
, released on the Canadian
electronic music
label Neuphoria Recordings in 2004. This artist also has released a 14-track recording entitled 'Adieu Shinjuku Zulu'. K.I.A. also records as Shinjuku Zulu
, and has released a 19-track recording entitled Various Chimeras
, and a 15-track recording entitled Shinjuku Zulu
. There is also a 13-track recording of downtempo and chillout songs compiled from the above recordings, released under the name K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu, entitled DXLR8 - Downtempo 'Best Of' K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu
Kirby Ian Andersen
K.I.A. is a cross-genre pop electronica producer from Toronto, Canada. Like much of the Toronto and Montreal music scenes, Kirby Ian Andersen, the writer and producer of the songs, involves many people in his recordings—six or seven different vocalists on each release...
, released on the Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
label Neuphoria Recordings in 2004. This artist also has released a 14-track recording entitled 'Adieu Shinjuku Zulu'. K.I.A. also records as Shinjuku Zulu
Shinjuku Zulu
Shinjuku Zulu is an album by electronica artist Shinjuku Zulu aka Kirby Ian Andersen, released in 2000. The album is available from Neuphoria Recordings, an electronic label from Toronto, Canada. See also the releases F-1 Papillons - 'Best Of' K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu, DXLR8 - Downtempo 'Best Of' K.I.A...
, and has released a 19-track recording entitled Various Chimeras
Various Chimeras
Various Chimeras is a 2006 album by electronica artist Shinjuku Zulu on Neuphoria Recordings. This artist also has released the recordings Sonorous Susurrus and Adieu Shinjuku Zulu under the name K.I.A.-Track listing:# "Tombouctou, Adieu!"...
, and a 15-track recording entitled Shinjuku Zulu
Shinjuku Zulu
Shinjuku Zulu is an album by electronica artist Shinjuku Zulu aka Kirby Ian Andersen, released in 2000. The album is available from Neuphoria Recordings, an electronic label from Toronto, Canada. See also the releases F-1 Papillons - 'Best Of' K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu, DXLR8 - Downtempo 'Best Of' K.I.A...
. There is also a 13-track recording of downtempo and chillout songs compiled from the above recordings, released under the name K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu, entitled DXLR8 - Downtempo 'Best Of' K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu
DXLR8 - Downtempo 'Best Of' K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu
DXLR8 - Downtempo Best-of K.I.A. and Shinjuku Zulu is a 2008 album, compiling the best chillout tracks by electronica artist Kirby Ian Andersen, known variously as Shinjuku Zulu and K.I.A.. The 13 tracks are taken from the previous two releases by Shinjuku Zulu and the two releases by K.I.A...
Vocalists
Janet Cardiff (sound installation artist), Larissa Gomes, Sean Skier, Karen Green (pop singer), Prince, Eugene Spanier, Patrick Duffy (rock singer), Courtney Farquhar (folk/pop singer)Tracklisting
- Title (Genre) Vocals
- Be My Dj (dance, house musicHouse musicHouse music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
). Vocals: Caryn Green - Freedom (bluesBluesBlues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
electronic musicElectronic musicElectronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
) Vocals: Shawn Skier - Downquark (dancehallDancehallDancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. In the mid-1980s, digital instrumentation became more prevalent, changing the sound considerably,...
, microhouseMicrohouseMicrohouse, buftech or sometimes just minimal, is a subgenre of house and glitch music.-History:Microhouse has its roots in the minimal techno, glitch , and house genres of music. Its first echoes appeared in a glitch album by German experimental artist Oval, in 1993...
) - Sensation (FolktronicaFolktronicaFolktronica or electrofolk is a genre of music comprising various elements of folk music and electronica, often featuring samplings of acoustic instruments—especially stringed instruments—and incorporating hip hop rhythms...
). Vocals: Courtney Farquhar - Nevermine (breakbeatBreakbeatIn 1992, a new style called "jungalistic hardcore" emerged, and for many ravers it was too funky to dance to. Josh Lawford of Ravescene prophesied that the breakbeat was "the death-knell of rave" because the ever changing drumbeat patterns of breakbeat music didn't allow for the same zoned out,...
, popPop musicPop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
). Vocals: Larissa Gomes - Housin' Down the Burn (house musicHouse musicHouse music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
). Vocals: Larissa Gomes - Music Is My DNA (world musicWorld musicWorld music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
, electronic musicElectronic musicElectronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
). Vocals: Karen Green - Large Slow River (house musicHouse musicHouse music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
, artronica). Vocals: Janet CardiffJanet CardiffJanet Cardiff is a Canadian installation artist. Born in Brussels, Ontario in 1957 Cardiff studied at Queen's University where she graduated in 1980. She also studied at the University of Alberta and graduated in 1983. She works in collaboration with her partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff and... - Magpi (electronic musicElectronic musicElectronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
) - Rashomon (microhouseMicrohouseMicrohouse, buftech or sometimes just minimal, is a subgenre of house and glitch music.-History:Microhouse has its roots in the minimal techno, glitch , and house genres of music. Its first echoes appeared in a glitch album by German experimental artist Oval, in 1993...
) - Ain't No Nuns (bluesBluesBlues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
/electronic musicElectronic musicElectronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
). Vocals: Shawn Skier - Howdydaomaori (world musicWorld musicWorld music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
, chillout) - Sleep (downtempoDowntempoDowntempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling...
, trip hopTrip hopTrip hop is a music genre consisting of downtempo electronic music which originated in the early 1990s in England, especially Bristol. Deriving from "post"-acid house, the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat which...
). Vocals: Sydney White - Dubmarine (dubDub musicDub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...
, ambientAmbient musicAmbient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
, chillout. Vocals: Prince - Scatter (bluesBluesBlues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
/electronic musicElectronic musicElectronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
). Vocals: Sydney White - Rise Up (dubDub musicDub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...
, chillout). Vocals: Giancarlo Pecchia - Uneunoia (ambientAmbient musicAmbient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
, chillout) - She's All States (world musicWorld musicWorld music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
). Vocals: Patrick Duffy - Hummingbird (singer/songwriter). Vocals: Larissa Gomes
- Mmm. (dubDub musicDub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...
, chillout) - PS/AT (chillout, ambientAmbient musicAmbient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
, trip hopTrip hopTrip hop is a music genre consisting of downtempo electronic music which originated in the early 1990s in England, especially Bristol. Deriving from "post"-acid house, the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat which...
) - Goa-di (a cappellaA cappellaA cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
, chillout)
External links
- http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=30919350&s=143441 Sonorous Susurrus song samples (iTunes)
- http://cdbaby.com/cd/kiamusic2 Sonorous Susurrus song descriptions (CDbaby)