DCD34342-CD

Kantos: In Your Dreams

Kantos Chamber Choir’s Delphian debut is an ambitious reimagining of the choral album as a single, immersive dreamscape.

Drifting from the profound to the playful, the familiar to the surreal, In Your Dreamsweaves together music, poetry and sonic fragments to explore sleep’s many dimensions.Kantos and its artistic director Ellie Slorach have together built a reputation for boundary-pushing projects where concert programming meets theatrical storytelling: here, Shakespeare and Poe sit alongside Whitacre and Vaughan Williams, lullabies dissolve into subconscious murmurs and nonsense songs take on a dream logic of their own.

The choir’s distinctive sound, shaped in Manchester’s vibrant vocal scene, finds new expressive extremes in a journey through the uncharted territory between waking and sleeping, sound and silence, sense and mystery.

"Prepare your evening ritual: brew that final cup of tea, arrange a plate of digestives within reach, and settle into your most cherished armchair. What awaits is not merely a listening experience but a descent into the realm of Morpheus himself, where consciousness blurs and music becomes the architecture of dreams ... The vocal prowess on display is nothing short of remarkable. Born from Manchester's vibrant musical scene, the Kantos Chamber Choir demonstrates discipline that borders on the supernatural. The control and resonance of their lower registers flows like warm honey, whilst the upper voices float with ethereal precision. This is a cappella singing of the finest calibre, each phrase sculpted with such beauty that one becomes utterly transfixed rather than drowsy ... This recording represents everything one hopes for in contemporary choral artistry—a willingness to push boundaries whilst maintaining the highest musical standards"


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Release Date: 27 June 2025
Catalogue No: DCD3442
Total playing time: 1:06:00

Recorded on 28-29 October 2024 at Hallé at St Michael’s, Manchester
Producer/Engineer: Paul Baxter
24-bit digital editing: Jack Davis
24-bit digital mastering: Paul Baxter

Design: Drew Padrutt
Cover: Will Coates-Gibson

Booklet editor: Henry Howard

Session photography: Will Coates-Gibson/Foxbrush
Choir group photography: Eve Powers

Delphian Records Ltd – Edinburgh – UK


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