Birds of Passage – “Winter Lady” – [Cooper Cult Records]

humana   2/3/2013   A Library, CD

Listen to Alicia Merz’s melancholy voice and it will haunt you forever. These songs showcase her vocal skill by putting it center stage with minimal accompaniment of field sounds and instruments, creating a vocal drone that chills you to the bone just as you’d expect a Winter Lady to do. Suitable soundtrack to funerals, bleak imaginings, and other glacial experiences that leave you feeling bereft yet touched by beauty.