Yanni Voices

雅尼2009年最新专辑『Yanni Voices 雅尼之声』 再次聆听雅尼的动人旋律，来自他无与伦比的22年的音乐创作生涯，将首次加入人声重新演绎！ 这张专辑由雅尼与曾获得过格莱美奖的著名音乐制作人Ric Wake共同合作创作。崇尚于他的宏伟的交响乐般的乐章和甜蜜熟悉的键盘旋律，雅尼长期以来都拒绝在他作品中加入歌词，用人声重新诠释。而在这张专辑中，Yanni尝试了加入歌词，并力邀四位出色的年轻歌手Leslie Mills、Chloe、Ender Thomas、Nathan Pacheco重新演绎，进行独唱和对唱。 暌违2年，"雅尼之声"无疑是雅尼最具雄心的专辑！ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yanni Voices is Yanni's 14th studio album and 5th live DVD, released in 2009. The album debuted on Billboard's Top 200 and #1 on the New Age chart. The Spanish version, Yanni Voces, debuted at #2 on Billboard's New Age chart, #5 on the Latin Pop chart, and #13 on the Latin overall chart. This was Yanni's first studio release in six years. In collaboration with producer Ric Wake, Yanni showcased vocal artists singing to his classic songs, blending fresh interpretations of vintage Yanni tracks with newly written material. It also introduces the four new vocalists at the center of the project: Leslie Mills, Chloe, Nathan Pacheco, and Ender Thomas. Disney Pearl Imprint released Yanni Voices and its Buena Vista Concerts division produced an extensive tour that began in April 2009. The tour kicked off with a special concert filmed Live at The Forum (Mundo Imperial) in Acapulco Mexico. This concert is the subject of a television special that aired in March 2009 on PBS. Yanni Voces features a collection of Spanish duets with Latin recording artists and the new vocalists of Yanni Voices. Special guest performers included Lucero, Cristian Castro and José José. (wiki) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ by Stephen Thomas Erlewine This is a time when the title truly does say it all. Yanni's Voices finds the contemporary instrumental composer collaborating with singers for the first time, and if that wasn't enough of a risk, Yanni and producer Rick Wake picked four unknowns to contribute lyrics and melodies to existing pieces and new songs alike. Upon first glance, singing gives Voices the appearance of pop, and there are some tracks that are structured like pop in a way that Yanni's music rarely is, but this isn't greatly removed from the increasingly rhythmic worldbeat that he's made in the decade preceding this 2009 album. This still has a deliberately exotic, multi-cultural feel with the emphasis on texture, not melody, so the singers -- Leslie Mills, Nathan Pacheco, Ender Thomas, and Chloe -- tend to fade into the tapestry, often to he extent that it's not immediately clear what language is being sung. This vocal transparency is not by accident, but by design, because this is still a Yanni album: he may have singers but he is the frontman, the man responsible for the form and feel of the sound. And Voices is surely an album where the sound, not the song, is a paramount, and that's what makes this first-ever Yanni album with singing not all that different from his other albums after all.