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Hallelujah

Moira Smiley & VOCO

Shape-note folk hymn recorded by Moira Smiley & VOCO as a bonus track from their new album In Our Voices (out 02.19.21)

"Time, what an empty vapor 'tis! Our days, how swift they are. Swift as the slender arrow flies, or like a shooting star"

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Unzip The Horizon

Moira Smiley

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With 14 songs, and guests that include Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, Leah & Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia, Darrell Scott, Seamus Egan, Jayme Stone, Anna & Elizabeth and Sam Lee, it’s an unapologetically personal, solo record from a woman whose voice and writing has called so many others to sing.

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    Mother Of Invention 3:22
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    Bellow 4:37
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    Refugee 3:07
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    Rotary Phone 3:48
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    Wiseman 3:39
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    One Step Dance 3:09
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    Sing About It 4:04
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    World Will Not Pause 3:50
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    Dressed In Yellow 3:16
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    Our Time 3:48
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    Dissatisfaction 3:28
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    Worried Now 3:37
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    So Glad 3:10
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    Leather Britches 2:54
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In Our Voices

Moira Smiley

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Five exquisitely diverse voices and thunderous body percussion bring raw urgency to songs of social justice and human connection.

Touring heavily with Tune-Yards, Solas and Jayme Stone’s Lomax / Folklife projects bore Unzip The Horizon - Moira’s 2018 solo album of lonesome, nomadic songs. An instinctual collaborator, she was ready to return to

Five exquisitely diverse voices and thunderous body percussion bring raw urgency to songs of social justice and human connection.

Touring heavily with Tune-Yards, Solas and Jayme Stone’s Lomax / Folklife projects bore Unzip The Horizon - Moira’s 2018 solo album of lonesome, nomadic songs. An instinctual collaborator, she was ready to return to harmony singing and the joy of powerful voices in 2020 with VOCO. In Our Voices is the result of that return. Featuring: Moira Smiley, Dawn Pemberton, Karla Mundy, Gregory Fletcher, Jake Asaro with special guests Sam Amidon, Caleb Bronze, and Seamus Egan.

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    Sing About It 3:51
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    Days Of War 4:41
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    Refugee 3:22
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    How Can I Cry 3:56
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    Wiseman 4:21
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    So Glad 3:28
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    Silverlake 2:51
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    The Call 3:51
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    Dressed In Yellow 3:57
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    Oh Susannah 4:48
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    Stand In That River 4:29
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    Bellow 5:11
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Laughter Out Of Tears

Moira Smiley & VOCO

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Wild, outdoor folksongs and tender originals are woven through voice and stomp. A slow walk from the chilly exile and longing into a warm room of kindred souls. A few Croatian, Serbian and Bulgarian songs from Moira’s travel are sprinkled between banjo, uke, cello-driven songwriting. Includes 5 beautiful tracks that feature the ‘Choir of YOU’ –

Wild, outdoor folksongs and tender originals are woven through voice and stomp. A slow walk from the chilly exile and longing into a warm room of kindred souls. A few Croatian, Serbian and Bulgarian songs from Moira’s travel are sprinkled between banjo, uke, cello-driven songwriting. Includes 5 beautiful tracks that feature the ‘Choir of YOU’ – voices of VOCO’s fans around the planet.

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    Dream Intro 0:55
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    Visa Fran Jarna 0:13
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    Chilly Winds 3:10
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    North Country 4:11
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    I Live in California 0:26
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    Mazurka 3:31
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    Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind 2:03
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    Dream/Dve Nevesti 2:32
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    Deportee 0:57
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    Oj Jabuko 1:41
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    Oj Savice 2:03
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    Oh Winter 4:11
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    Orphan Girl 3:00
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    Whistle Daughter Whistle 2:28
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    Steam Engines 2:29
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    They're Red Hot 2:46
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    Dream Outro 1:10
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Small Worlds

Moira Smiley & VOCO

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Ten songs guided by Bèla Bartók, communal singing, twilight introspection, crooked mountain music, childhood discovery, collecting and improvisation. Physical theater of four voices, cello, accordion, banjo and percussion.

Performers: Moira Smiley, Jessica Basta, Jessica Catron, Christine Enns-Tavares, TJ Troy, Fabrice Martines, Ursula Knudsen

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    Zelena (Green Mikrokosmos) 2:15
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    Izgrejala (gel Moma) / Tk Mi Kazaha 3:51
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    Makedonska 3:29
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    Summer Has Come 1:39
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    Silverlake 3:17
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    Szerelem 1:44
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    Russia (Siberia's Snows) 2:48
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    Out Of A Child 2:42
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    The Hat - Matchmaking Song 1:09
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    Rano (Early Morn' Mikrokosmos) 0:47
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rua

Moira Smiley

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Traditional and Original Folk Song. Exquisite solo vocals with lyrical accompaniment including cello, banjo, uillean pipes and other traditional instruments. Irish, Original, Appalachian.

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    House That Jack Built 4:24
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    Hawk & Crow / Monaghan Twig 2:37
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    Donal Og 5:33
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    Stand In That River 3:48
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    A Man Was Born 3:08
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    Charlie Piggot's / Sporting Pitchfork 1:00
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    Wexford Carol 3:43
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    Katie Cruel 2:40
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    Queen Jane 3:11
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    Grey Shore 2:51
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    Darkest Midnight 4:03
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    Parting Glass 3:54
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Circle, Square, Diamond, Flag

Moira Smiley & VOCO

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Moira Smiley & VOCO sing post-folk, improvisation-built songs that dig into old Americana and Eastern European roots. VOCO’s Live CD “circle, square, diamond & flag” was featured nationally on NPR (National Public Radio) through “Harmonia”.

Performers: Moira Smiley, Jessica Basta, Jessica Catron, Christine Enns-Tavares

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    Carolina Pines 2:23
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    Bring Me Little Water, Silvy 2:40
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    Garden Hymn 2:51
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    Return My Soul 3:15
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    The Cuckoo 3:27
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    Parting Friends 2:17
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    Wondrous Love 3:59
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    Africa 3:34
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    Africa 3:34
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Blink

Moira Smiley & VOCO

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The debut album of VOCO is a lush, layered-with-vocals album that mixes Moira’s originals with her arrangements of traditional songs from Eastern Europe and early America – with a few other surprises!

Performers: Moira Smiley, Jessica Basta, John Ballinger, Jessica Catron, Christine Enns-Tavares

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    Deep Blue 4:44
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    S'loyfn, S'yogn 4:15
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    I Live in California 0:23
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    A Sto Cemo 3:51
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    Katie Cruel 2:40
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    Dying Californian 3:06
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    Stand In That River 3:35
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    Boat BP 1:10
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    Long Time Travelin' 1:06
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    Our Time/Shout 4:02
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    How Can I Cry 3:57
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    Firecracker Girl 3:05
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    Tryptophan Hand Jive 0:50
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    Bartok #148 2:56
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    Al Proci 3:16
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    Utopia 3:04
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    Esik Eso 2:18
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Changing Woman

Moira Smiley

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Found sounds and improvisations for dance theatre. Songs for masked choir, soloists and percussion. Musicians: Moira Smiley, David Weber, Megan Weeder, Stephanie Heidemann, Mia Dalglish, Cullen Strawn, Julianna Burrell, Ian Smiley, Terra Ensemble.

Commissioned by Gash-Voigt Dance Theater, St. Louis, MO. Recorded by David Weber at Airtime Studios,

Found sounds and improvisations for dance theatre. Songs for masked choir, soloists and percussion. Musicians: Moira Smiley, David Weber, Megan Weeder, Stephanie Heidemann, Mia Dalglish, Cullen Strawn, Julianna Burrell, Ian Smiley, Terra Ensemble.

Commissioned by Gash-Voigt Dance Theater, St. Louis, MO. Recorded by David Weber at Airtime Studios, Bloomington, IN.

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    Winter: Opening Snake Song 1:32
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    Winter: Snow 1:16
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    Winter: Trees 3:05
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    Winter: Masks and Echoes 2:40
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    Winter: Sage Woman's Dance 3:59
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    Winter: Snake Song 1:25
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    Spring: Snake Song 2:36
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    Spring: The Thawing 0:26
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    Spring: Mirror Play 1:35
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    Spring: Playground 2:33
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    Spring: Cage Music 2:11
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    Spring: Resolution Snake Song 1:10
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    Summer: Earthly Light 2:44
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    Summer: Poem to the Mother 2:39
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    Summer: Summer Sultry 2:41
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    Summer: Mama Hey 3:49
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    Fall: Our Time is Near 4:14
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    Fall: Song of an Initiate 2:08
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    Fall: Tres Morillas 1:32
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    Fall: Final Snake Song 2:16
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Sacred Ground

Moira Smiley

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Found sounds and improvisations for dance theatre. Weaving recordings from my travels – churches in Mexico, streams in California, forests of New England into a thick texture of voice and percussion. The album follows the birth, awakening, work, disorientation, exile, returning of a human soul on its way across ‘sacred ground’.

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    Wind of Life 2:43
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    First Being 1:37
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    Second Being 0:58
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    Third Being 1:06
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    Fourth Being 1:57
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    Round 1:39
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    Arrival 0:37
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    Birth 0:59
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    Self-Discovery 1:56
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    Discovery of the Other 1:36
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    Shaman Chants 1:17
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    Village Work 3:05
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    Making the Mandala 1:23
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    Trickster 3:54
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    Dislocation 1:44
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    Our Desolation 2:29
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    Long Time Traveling 2:00
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    Exile 4:00
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    Awakening 1:03
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    Water Lullaby 4:08
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