Ode
Odeya Nini
populist records (odeyanini.com)
LA-based interdisciplinary vocalist and composer Odeya Nini has created an album displaying the limitless bounds of her voice in a solo vocal chamber work. Holding both a BFA from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and an MFA in composition from California Institute of the Arts, Nini is known for her vocal sound baths, workshops and retreats, where she explores the transformative and healing qualities of the body through voice.
With Ode, Nini explores a wide collection of style, harmonic range and influences. Creating a work of almost entirely multi-tracked acoustic voice, Nini’s sound poems imagine landscapes of tonal and textural shifts that develop and melt beneath your feet, creating experiences with resonances and vibrations of both the body and the surrounding landscape, extending her voice to expressions of breath, growls and stratospheric lyricism. At times modal and melodic and at other times mining the depths of microsounds, each of the six tracks is constructed of compositional and improvised collages.
An album well suited to those who are interested in listening experiences over melodic content, Ode is a work of vocal prowess from this sonic artist.
