This innovative 1992 album is an amazing exploration of the possibilities of the human voice... absent are the dance beat and lush instrumentation of her earlier works. The songs here are steeped in the ornamentalism of Indian classical music, but her vocal virtuosity allows her to utilize (and stretch) classical, pop and folk traditions with equal confidence. She effortlessly moves from a remarkable spoken percussion piece, to a thousand-year-old Irish ballad, to a lullaby adapted by the Spanish composer Manuel De Falla, to a Muslim Call, to an Indian Bhajan. She writes, 'The voice is the first and ultimate instrument -- it is the one means of expression used by every culture... The spirit of my ancestors is more accessible to me via the voice -- it links all cultures throughout time.'

Chandra,Sheila