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Hayley Westenra: Prayer
Apparently this stuff gets marketed as classical. Which in today’s brain-lite society is an attribute assigned to anything sing-songy with an orchestral background. Prayer is, inevitably, a cover, because we all know that classical singers don’t write their own material. (Co-writing doesn’t count BTW.) It presses all the right buttons: a lovely clear voice, which tracks the notes properly, although because of it’s so refined there’s a considerable lack of character within it (compare with Shara Worden); understated plinky-plonky piano, and the aforementioned strings and things.
Did I mention it is utterly gorgeous?
Bugger.
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