Secret Beasts by Avi C. Engel

“Clara Engel’s voice comes to me from that deepest of all places, imaginative space, from which she visually retrieves an inner landscape converted by breath into the rock equivalent of poetry. Rarely has a voice sounded so authoritative, so unapologetic in its disclosures, so sure of its direction in going home into song…I’d say ‘Madagascar’ beats them all, and it’s only a beginning at harnessing poetic inspiration to the resonating dynamic of voice and the lyrical ache of a great individual singer.”
-Jeremy Reed (poet)

Tracklist

1.	Break in the Sun	5:43

2.	Ghost Opera	5:23

3.	The Beauty of Your Design	2:35

4.	To Be Without	4:05

5.	Old Fashioned Love	3:33

6.	Madagascar	5:00

7.	I Have No Words	3:41

8.	Not My Child	4:17

9.	Lick My Fins	4:31

10.	Angelus Bells	5:33

11.	Blind Me	7:16

12.	Chorus of Murderous Bells	7:27

13.	The Sailor's Choice	2:14

Credits

released December 3, 2009

All Songs Written By Clara Engel
except 'The Sailor's Choice' - Traditional, based on an arrangement by Jacob, aka Steven Calver

Clara Engel - Voice, Guitar, Piano
Nicolas Buligan - Horns, Percussion
Tilman Lewis - Cello, Percussion
Paul Kolinski - Drums, Percussion, Piano, Voice

Featuring Tsinder Ash on voice and clarinet on Old Fashioned Love

Choirs of friends.

Engineered & Mastered by Mike Kuehn
Mixed by Mike Kuehn, Alex Olsen, Clara Engel
Recorded live at Sleepytown Studio on the 1st weekend of January, 2009.

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