| "Following in that long Pythagorean tradition - with one ear cocked to the music of the spheres and the other to the tunings of the soul - the slowly shifting euphonious chords, sounded without text, affirm that music has powers we generally forget... it is not a retuning of the sky the singers seek, but a retuning of the listener, some echo of the music of the spheres." -Edward Rothstein, The New York Times "David Hykes and his Harmonic Choir have mastered a spectacular and little known technique of overtone singing with tones heard, sensed and felt... subtle and captivating... hearing it is an experience everyone should have." -Robert Palmer, The New York Times "The Spirit of Sound" "The listener finds himself inside a sonic wave, the superimposed layers of which blend and unblend like clouds in the sky. "The various pieces are imprinted with the same expression of calm, of purity, with the same concern to achieve a sort of disembodiment of the sound. "The vocal mastery of the members of the Harmonic Choir and the acuity of their mutual listening, allow them to achieve perfect unison and absolute control of intervals." -Gérard Condé, Le Monde, France "The technical wizardry of this art is the least of its wonder. The real specialness of the singing lies in its exquisite expressiveness. Through it all, the listener is mesmerized, receiving and sharing sound messages of almost excruciating beauty." -Eileen Blumenthal, Village Voice "Something happens there in that most rarefied air, an inextricable blending of the physical and the spiritual. While mountain climbers do their thing alone, these climbers bring the listener along in their ascent... This is truly uplifting music- it pulls you up from above. Everything in this music is majestically natural." -Anne Rey, Le Monde de la Musique "David Hykes has, over the past twenty years, magnificently developed the Harmonic Chant, and now explores its essential nature in an ever-widening musical universe." -Franck Mallet, Le Monde de la Musique (Paris) |      
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