The singer’s role is to articulate the unspeakable. Where instrumental music can seem abstract, texts as songs speak directly to audiences. Louise Gibbs has written 50 provocative minutes of text and music for herself and septet. The result is a song suite of expressive and musical challenges, an impassioned commentary on the waywardness of desire.
The music and all seven instrumentalists are as integral to Seven Deadly Sings as the singer. Each sin/sing/song is inspired by the distinctive “voice” of the soloist and his instrument. Sometimes the coupling is knowingly clichéd and sometimes accidental: PRIDE (Sam Leak, piano), LUST (Tim Whitehead, tenor sax), GLUTTONY (Tom White, trombone), ENVY (Quentin Collins, trumpet), SLOTH (Oli Hayhurst, double bass), ANGER (Sam Gardner, drums), and GREED (Tony Kofi, alto sax).
CLICK EACH BLUE 'SIN' TO HEAR CORRESPONDING SAMPLE TRACK.