Shelley Hirsch, David Weinstein

Original 1989 LP, few copies available "Haiku Lingo" is constructed as a narrative musical labyrinth of characters, styles, orchestrations, texts and juxtapositions. The work makes use of Shelley Hirsch's vocal power and flexibility, humor and imaginative language together with David Weinstein's chameleon-powered sampling keyboards and electronics. Hirsch/Weinstein have collaborated regularly since 1985 including staged works "Occidental Dreams Of A Geisha" and "Celebration Of The Obvious", the kaleidoscopic "Power Muzak" and many songs, story pieces and group projects.

"One of New York's most delightful experimental singers, Shelley Hirsch brings an impressive stylistic versatility to her explorations of the human voice. Ms. Hirsch ... portrays all vocal styles - from pure operatic warbling to hard, twangy country singing - as related colors on a continuous vocal spectrum. Abstract vocal excursions in an invented language fade in and out of recognizable of popular songs in captivating stream-of-consciousness journeys." (New York Times)

Power it is - like hearing every kind of music one could imagine folded into musical pastry. Hirsch's mouth is a fountain of sonic mercury." (EAR Magazine)