Voices (Claire Hamill album)

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Voices
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Studio album by
Released1986
StudioCoda Landscape Studios
Genre New-age, dream pop
Length42:02
Label Blueprint Records
Producer Claire Hamill
Claire Hamill chronology
Touchpaper
(1984)
Voices
(1986)
Love in the Afternoon
(1988)
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Voices is the sixth album by English singer-songwriter Claire Hamill, released in 1986. The title refers to the fact that the album's mostly-instrumental music is entirely a capella, created by sampling and multi-tracking Hamill's voice.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Claire Hamill.

  1. "Awaken...Larkrise" - 3.59
  2. "Tides" - 4:34
  3. "Moss" - 3:08
  4. "Afternoon in a Wheatfield" - 5:04
  5. "Stars" - 2.58
  6. "Leaf Fall" - 4:32
  7. "Mist on the Ridge" - 4:19
  8. "Harvest" - 3:29
  9. "Icicle Rain" - 5:10
  10. "Sleep" - 4:49

Personnel

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References

  1. Stewart Mason Allmusic Review.