La Faute De La Musique

Jazzy interpretations of some John Cage vocal works. Note that the "solo" tracks aren't performed solo; most are given a bass and sax add-on to create a jazz feel.

The singing is all "vocalese" -- weird noises and cartoony swoops, wordless crooning, and nonsensical spoken snippets. Remember, this is John Cage we're talking about, and the pieces are written in experimental, free-form styles. The jazzy sound lightens it up a bit, but this is still fairly serious stuff, and you do need a tolerance for the avant-garde vocal stylings.

Also check out this duo's CD in World -- it's completely different with, obviously, a "world" tone instead of jazz.

1- Bouncy mid/fast bass; nonsense half-spoken vocals with weird
cartoony/alien sound. Rambles on quite a bit.
2- Mid/slow and dynamic, lots of swooping soprano crooning.
Sounds French.
3*- Loungy and light: dinner jazz! Easy on the ears, with cohesive lyrics
4- Slow, studious. With aerial swirling sax in spots.
5- Scattery shards of sax & voice. Disjoint.
6- Slow. Some loungy piano/bass splashes and avant-garde sax
7- Voice and sax: Mid/fast but sparse, lots of pauses