acapella...

I was transported. I was surfing my radio dial, because my cd player in my car refuses to work (I think my cast recording of "Once Upon a Mattress" was finally too much for it), and I came across the best radio station. Click the title of this post to navigate to KKUP Cupertino. The novelty of actually being a productive member of society again, and the commute that comes with it, is wearing a bit thin, but, it was made considerably less interminable by the lovely sounds I was hearing. As the title may suggest, it was a selection of recordings of signed and not signed acapella groups doing original and covers of things like The Beatles "Yesterday", and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" complete with voices that sounded like electric guitars. I realize Bobby McFerrin made this a craze a gazillion years ago, but I don't gives a rat's fuzzy behind.

Anyhow, being a performer since the tender age of 5 has made me a tad bit jaded and cynical, and I was delighted by the new things I could hear on a tiny indie radio station. The show was called Human Voices (or something like that) and it ran until 10am. I'm by no means the best performer, but I've always been a solo or melody girl, and to hear such loving detail in every harmonic was a thrill. It makes me less resentful of the fact that nearly every musical director I've had makes me sing mezzo or alto, just because I can hear the music. At least I know now that being a melodramatic soprano hasn't completely ruined me.

I think I'm going searching for some of those recordings, one in particular was a cover of "I Feel Good" by Groove, and did they ever!

So click on the title, and listen on Tuesday morning from 7-10, and see for yourself!