Also featured is Still, a vocal reworking of Ola Gjeilo‘s piano track recorded on his Decca Classics hit album Night, a striking new version of multi-award-winning composer, producer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Ascent from her 2009 album Without Sinking, arranged by conductor, producer and co-founder of the London Contemporary Orchestra, Robert Ames. The single has been arranged for wordless voices and harp by composer and orchestrator Geoff Lawson, whose credits include Maleficent, Black Panther, Thor Ragnarok.Īlongside Scene Suspended, Infinity features eight diverse new choral arrangements with highlights including a spine-tingling recording of Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson’s composition Heyr himna smiður, a contemporary setting of a popular 13 th-century Icelandic hymn and an emotive performance of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s A Pile of Dust, which features in the original soundtrack for the 2017 biopic The Mercy, arranged here for a cappella voices by rising star composer Benjamin Rimmer.
Hopkins has produced and contributed to albums by Brian Eno, Coldplay, Imogen Heap and many more. The first single from the album, Scene Suspended, is a beautiful reworking of celebrated classically trained electronic artist and producer Jon Hopkins’ 2020 composition. The sublime blended voices of VOCES8 are intermingled with ethereal strings, harp, bowed vibraphones and, in one of the new compositions, a sample of the Sputnik satellite. In this space-inspired concept album, VOCES8 leads listeners on an introspective journey beyond our world, inviting them to escape for an hour of contemplative and calming music. This new collection of meditative and otherworldly choral recordings transcends genres and features six brand-new compositions interspersed with eight newly arranged covers from renowned composers.
Following a string of globally successful virtual festivals, VOCES8 release brand new album Infinity, out now on Decca Classics.
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