Sink Your Teeth
Oracle
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(672617025525)
Record Label: Oracle
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Oracle is a Portland, OR based brother/sister duo fronted by the powerful, emotionally driven vocals of Orianna Herrman and the superb acoustic variations of Michael Herrman.
Having come from a musical family, Michael and Orianna started their learning side by side - figuring out the songs, picking up the harmonies, and sharing their love of sound. With those years of experience together, they have developed an energy charged dynamic every audience member can appreciate.
Their song arrangements breathe a distinct intensity into each tune, with an accompanying delicate caress that leaves listeners satisfied. Lyrically, they resonate compelling lines of love and growth, bringing out questions and emotions from the darkest of internal spaces to the lightest realms of understanding and joy. Michael's creative guitar work begins the portrait. A Renoir of music, he uses his innate sense of timing, finger skills, and funky interplay of his digital looper to establish multi-layered soundscapes. From there Orianna's fearless vocals begin surging in, inviting movement of heart, mind, and soul. When the harmony of voices begins - you start to understand the true quality of Oracle, a deep, trusting, intuitive relationship that only a sibling kinship could create.
Their debut release "Sink Your Teeth" offers a fresh take on their original material. Interweaving full band compilations with their intimate acoustic feel, this album is a strong entrance for Oracle that will leave you coming back for more...
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Soulful and Honest
author: Anonymous
This music is direct from the soul: rhythmic, juicy and sublime, sometimes melancholy and always very beautiful. I admire the richness of the melodies, the texture and patterns of the harmonies throughout, and the intricate layering of guitar work and electronic sounds, all interwoven into a great tapestry of sound. The authors pour their hearts out here, giving and giving, drawing deeply upon their many individual talents and the collective chemistry, as siblings, they possess.
Sink Your Teeth is a distinct and personal world. I especially appreciate "China Reigns," a track characterized by soulful dissonance and a muted suppleness that builds and builds to an explosion of harmony in the final verses: the "field of blossoms," if you will. Faint guitar harmonics and a lonely bassoon lend an ethereal quality to the mood.
On the track, "All Over the Place," the vocalist sings, "Give me love, Curl my lashes, Sink your teeth," with such power and grace as to imbue the phrase with wonderful potency, an almost plump texture you can hold, into which you can Sink Your Teeth, as it were.
Positive. Essential. Honest. Consistently beautiful, even when emotionally raw and somewhat youthful.
This album warrants attention. It is very evidently the fruit of great love. How Oracle evolves from here will be a wonder to behold.
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