SYLVI ALLI
"...Sylvi has a haunting, heavenly voice that quickly finds the
resonant frequency of your heart and shakes it to pieces..."
Sam Hurwitt, EAST BAY EXPRESS
"Flamingos" (2012). Fourteen tracks from Antero Alli's movie, "Flamingos", featuring songs and music by SYLVI ALLI, MICHELLE BELLEROSE, SANAA TAHA, ARTEMESIA-BLACK, and MATT BALDWIN plus Sylvi's performance of classic songs : "Fever", "Fly Me to the Moon", "I Put a Spell on You", and "You Go to My Head". Also includes "Solar/Lunar" by the Ritual Song chorus of Marianne Potje, Christine Dallance, Sylvi Alli, & Noreen B. Greenblatt and new experimental music by Sylvi. Click THIS and THIS to hear two more tracks. Each FLAMINGOS CD purchase includes a bonus CD by ShakeWell. $12. (inc. post.) PayPal to: sylvi@verticalpool.com
"Vessel" (2010) VESSEL enlivens the senses with webbing streams of fluid incantations to the Muses in Sylvi's latest CD of original music. The majority of these new songs dwell in the realm of wordless invocations - where multi-layer harmonies, compelling vocals, and emerging rhythms collide and converge. Featuring eleven tracks. CLICK THIS and listen to a track. $12. (inc. post.) CLICK CD IMAGE TO PAY WITH PAYPAL.
by Sylvi Alli from the CD, "Vessel"
"A Hundred Birds" (2007) Through these eleven songs, eleven stories unravel their hypnoagogic dream journey through the internal landscape of twilight visions and memory...where enchantment borders the perilous and whimsy settles on everything like gold dust on moths. With all the songs composed and performed by herself, A HUNDRED BIRDS is Sylvi's most personal and intimate album to date. Click this for song samples. $12. (inc. post.) CLICK CD IMAGE TO PAY WITH PAYPAL.
"Too Near the Ghosts" (2001) Features eleven original songs, ranging from gothic ballads to dirges to arias -- a tapestry of haunted melodies and laments -- her vocals, rich with feeling and lyricism, float and soar through the atmospheres of her spare instrumentations. Includes tracks from Antero Alli's films "Tragos" , "Roadkill" and "Lily in Limbo" Click this for song samples. $12. (inc. post.) CLICK CD IMAGE TO PAY WITH PAYPAL.
"Under a Shipwrecked Moon" (2003) Twenty-three tracks of songs and music from Antero Alli's 2003 feature movie, "Under a Shipwrecked Moon" including 14 pieces by Sylvi with music also by S.F. musicians Birdsaw, LoopStation, Andy Nathan, and Sylvi's arrangements of music by classical composers Sibelius and Grieg. $12. (inc. post.) PayPal to: sylvi@verticalpool.com
"Dream of the Blue Moth" (2004) This CD represents the harvest of twelve years (1990-2002) of Sylvi's collaboration with partner and filmmaker Antero Alli and features seventeen tracks of songs and music from his films "Hysteria", "Tragos", "Fairy" and "The Drivetime", as well as, his intermedia theatre productions of "Hungry Ghosts of Albion" and "Requiem For A Friend". Instrumentation includes accordian, ukeline, electric guitar, cello, trombone, drums, electronics and organ. Click this for song samples . $12. (inc. post.) CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK!
SYLVI ALLI -- BIO and THE "EMBODIED VOICE" INTERVIEW
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sylvi@verticalpool.com