Artist	Song
abangaku	One Of Those [abangaku] 2:37
The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble	Canary In A Coal Mine [Sting] 2:25
Charles Bukowski	Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You [Charles Bukowski] 8:03
Stanford Mixed Company feat. Crystal Yang	Fear [Sarah McLachlan] 3:56
Mike Patton	The Man In The Lower Left Hand Corner Of The Photograph [Mike Patton] 1:53
Moscow Academy of Choral Singing	The Well [Anatoly Liadov] 1:35
Folk Scat	Silent Night [Franz Gruber] 4:52
Leadbelly	Looky Looky Yonder, Black Belly / Yella Woman's Doorbell [Leadbelly / J. Lomax / A. Lomax] 3:07
Billy Joel	The Longest Time [Billy Joel] 3:44
Bulgarian Women's Choir	Tapan Bie (Beating The Drum) [Zdravko Manolov] 2:28
Jean Ritchie	Wondrous Love [traditional] 2:23
Chorallaries of MIT ('97-'98) feat. Chris Reichert	Fields Of Gold [Sting] 3:08
Captain Beefheart	Orange Claw Hammer [Captain Beefheart] 3:36
Bj÷rk	Sonnets/Unrealities XI [E. E. Cummings / Bj÷rk] 2:01
The DQ Of Amherst feat. Eric Feder and Micaela Mendlow	Bon Jovi Supersong (Medley: Livin' On A Prayer / It's My Life) [Jon Bon Jovi / Desmond Child / Max Martin / Richie Sambora / Micaela Mendlow] 3:53
Roger Rees	A Dream Within A Dream [Edgar Allan Poe] 1:01
New London Chamber Choir	The Dove Descending Breaks The Air [T. S. Eliot / Igor Stravinsky] 2:44
Mrs. Sarah Makem and Tommy Makem	The Little Beggarman [Traditional] 1:56
Chorallaries Of MIT ('00-'01) feat. Sheri Ann Cheng	Talula - Tornado Mix [Tori Amos] 3:36
Pßdraigin Nf Uallachßin	A Bhean Udaf Thall [Traditional] 2:06
Ralph Stanley	O Death [Traditional] 3:21
Anonymous 4	Shall We Gather At The River [Robert Lowry] 4:59
Gary Lucas	Adon Olom [Traditional] 2:59
Bob Dylan	Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie [Bob Dylan] 7:09

Comment:

this might be the most complicated mix i've ever done... collecting all these tracks took months, but it's been worth it, i think. i've been a singer for longer than i can remember, and the human voice has always been my favorite instrument: thus, we have here a compilation of 24 tracks featuring no instruments whatsoever save the body we're all born with. contains: poems (tracks 3, 16, 24); spirituals (7, 11, 22); rough-hewn folksongs (8, 18, 21, 23) as well as a calm, lingering one (track 20); good old-fashioned collegiate acapella (4, 12, 15, 19 -- the two incarnations of the MIT Chorallaries apparently have no members in common, so i'm comfortable including them both as different artists) as well as imitation collegiate acapella by a classical vocal ensemble (track 2); Eastern European classical choral singing (6, 10, 17); sui-generis originals that miraculously ended up acapella in their original rendition (9, 13, 14); a two-minute slice of psycho acapella noice (track 5); and finally, an exercise in self-gratification (track 1, written and sung by myself, recorded, somehow, in a genuine studio). title is, of course, an extension of Bj÷rk's album title "Med·lla", from which "Sonnets/Unrealities IX" is drawn; opinions differ as to whether this album is entirely acapella, or simply nearly entirely acapella. whatever the case, i'd like to think i'm extending her concept here. enjoy, all.

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