SA Recordings

Acclaimed experimental musician, composer and performer Lea Bertucci releases Xtended Vox, a compilation of avant-garde voice pieces, via SA Recordings as well as an accompanying Spitfire Audio voice sample library.

Curated by Lea, this project features four acclaimed creative vocalists and pioneers of the avant-garde, stretching over a number of generations and across varying geographies, these artists lend their unique sonic vocabularies to the project, including Audrey Chen, Phil Minton, Cansu Tanrikulu and Ben Vida.

This is the second release and library Lea has done with SA Recordings and Spitfire, her 2020 project Acoustic Shadows, received high acclaim making it into Boomkat’s top 5 albums of the year as well as being The Guardian’s contemporary album of the month.

Taking a timbral approach to the sounds, the library and compilation encompasses the most radical of vocal techniques from the most fragile of whispers to throat singing and even alien nasal sounds. Xtended Vox pushes the boundaries of what can be done with contemporary voice, melding free improvisation with formalised composition.