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Complete a Capella Sessions
Singers Unlimited
Complete a Capella Sessions
Genres: Folk, Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
 
  •  Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (17) - Disc #2

A Capella Group Singing is an Art that Separates the Vocal Masters from the Second-rate. With No Bass Player to Anchor the Pitch and No Drummer to Control the Rhythm, the Singers Need to have the Strictest Musical Virtues:...  more »

     
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All Artists: Singers Unlimited
Title: Complete a Capella Sessions
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Universal I.S.
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 10/23/2006
Album Type: Import
Genres: Folk, Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Vocal Jazz, Easy Listening, Oldies, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 602498254219

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A Capella Group Singing is an Art that Separates the Vocal Masters from the Second-rate. With No Bass Player to Anchor the Pitch and No Drummer to Control the Rhythm, the Singers Need to have the Strictest Musical Virtues: Faultless Intonation and Time, a Harmonic Sense to Equal Any Orchestral Section Player, the Ability to Subordinate the Self to an Ensemble that Thinks and Hears as One. Few Groups, If Any, have Taken the Art of a Capella to Such Dizzying Heights as the Singers Unlimited. Between 1970 and 1980, this Quartet of American Jingle and Studio Singers Recorded Fifteen LPs in Germany. Their Three a Capella Albums, Gathered in this Set, Are Milestones of their Kind: A Wedding of Extraordinary Vocal Technique and Studio Technology that Could Never Be Replicated Live. Four Voices Became a Symphony of Overdubbed Lines, with So Many Intricacies of Harmony, Rhythm, and Dynamics that Only a Musician Could Pinpoint all the Subtleties.
 

CD Reviews

An A capella diamond
Beris Brickles | Silverton OR.USA | 08/03/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"For anyone who who loves to listen to the lyrics as well as the music

this recording cannot be surpassed - you really think you are listening

to a great harmonic group with musical backing.



A great pity more recordings like this were not made available.



I will never get tired of listening to all the various colors and shades of sounds

these talented people portray."
Great Listening
Robert L. Hadley | 05/12/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Since the 1970's, when the Singers Unlimited recorded with Oscar Peterson, I have loved this group. The A Capella numbers on this 2 disc album are great for background music, but they rate better as foreground listening. Highly recommended."