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

I am a tree, I am a mouth is the latest album from soprano/composer Jane Sheldon.

“conceptually brilliant… a vocal and compositional triumph, beautifully realised with splendid restraint.” - Limelight Magazine

The album’s vocal duets draw their lyrics from Rainer Maria Rilke’s stunning and timeless Book of Hours, a work of ardent odes to the ineffable, first published in 1905. The songs’ palette consists of just two voices, both sung by Jane, and a rich array of drones constructed from gong resonances, electronically stretched, slowed, and sculpted into an ever-active texture gently turning beneath the interwoven voices.

The art songs of I am a tree, I am a mouth owe their language as much to Maryanne Amacher and drone music as to lieder and Hildegard von Bingen.