Richly textured multiphonic vocal virtuosity, laced with rasps, rumbles, honks, howls, and wheezes, featured in freely improvised and formally structured solos, with flights of verbal invention added into the mix. Oralizations offers works spanning Paul Dutton’s more than thirty years of bursting the bonds of convention, testing the extremes of voice and verbalization, and blurring the borders between literature and music.
1. Mercure
2. Else
3. Two Out of Three
4. Kit Talk
5. “For the Letter That Begins Them All,H”(for BP)
6. Sonarality
7. Wolf Chant
8-9. Score for Tony
10. Time
11. Stereo Head
12. Sugar
13. Smile (for Ellen McIlwaine)
14. T’Her (for Monk ‘n’ Mabern)
15. In Voluntary
16. His Eyes, Her Eyes
17. Not to But for
18-19. Metalogos: A Suite in Two Parts
20. Reminiscence
