Jane Sheldon - I am a tree, I am a mouth CD

Out May 17, 2024 One of the Notable Recordings of 2022 - The New Yorker “It’s like little else I’ve heard this year” - Peter Margasak, Bandcamp Daily Having carved out a niche performing groundbreaking chamber opera around the world, Australian singer Jane Sheldon waited on releasing her own music until she felt she had brought her broad musical interests into focus. As an established voice in the arcane world of complex, new classical music, she wanted to expand beyond that to make music which would bypass the intellect and talk to the listener’s body. Somehow, she found that path through the combination of Rainer Maria Rilke (a German poet dead for almost a century), her voice, and 7 gongs. On I am a tree, I am a mouth, working with one gong for each song, Sheldon launched herself into experiments with layered voices, electronic processing, and super slowed down fragments of sonic resonance, where she skirted the edge of avant rock to find her true singular voice. It’s an album that