PASSIONS

Description

« The Passions » by Les Baxter, featuring Bas Sheva, is an experimental, avant-garde, and exotic masterpiece. Bas Sheva's dramatic voice, oscillating between moans, growls, screams, and melodic singing, expresses intense emotions such as "Despair" and "Lust," sublimated by Baxter's complex, orchestral, and percussive arrangements. Dark, intense, and with an exacerbated theatricality, this work is often described as a crossover between a 1950s film score and avant-garde music. Bas Sheva's voice, a true instrument in its own right, blends wonderfully with the wordless cries, sometimes anguished, sometimes ecstatic, and harmoniously merges into Baxter's usual bold score.