Erin McKeown has a blithe flutter in her voice and songs that can swing like old jazz, pick like folk-rock or surge like new wave.
Every song had been inspired by a different genre, yet the entire album coalesced due to its unique use of horns and Joe's distinctively unpolished singing voice full of blithe assertiveness.
This castle is, presided over by a man who is part blithe spirit and who, it now becomes clear, was perfectly cast to narrate the series's audiobooks, including the latest, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," for which Mr. Dale created 125 speaking voices.
It's a collection of match reports and anecdotes - stag-night stuff, usually involving feckless team-mates, fearsome opponents, massive hangovers and blithe exaggeration - held together by a voice.
His novel has many voices: Sarah's taut blithe fluency, that of an upper-class intellectual; Slater's bluff, irresistibly British effrontery; Chubb's defensive meander punctuated with Australian and Malay expressions; Mulaha's elaborate courtesies; a Chinese-Malaysian woman's aggressively fractured English — all without benefit of quotation marks.
His novel has many voices: Sarah's taut blithe fluency, that of an upper-class intellectual; Slater's bluff, irresistibly British effrontery; Chubb's defensive meander punctuated with Australian and Malay expressions; Mulaha's elaborate courtesies; a Chinese-Malaysian woman's aggressively fractured English all without benefit of quotation marks.
They include "The Voice I Wear," "The Sky's Pale Wing," "Blithe on the Surface" and "Evidence".
Joshua Hopkins was effective as Papageno, his light, attractive voice conveying the character's eternal youth and blithe spirit.
And not only was his voice annoying, it was just the whole thing, this blithe and unquestioning importing of his adult rules and prerogatives to these kids' essentially formless anarchic fun they were having just throwing the ball around and falling over each other until he showed up.
Huxley's Englishness is, in a sense, self-evident, his Eton-Balliol-Bloomsbury formation the confluence of privileges which created the voice described by Robert Craft as a 'lambent, culture-saturated purr', the sheer, blithe opinionation that allowed him to come up with formulas like 'Penang has a certain Sicilian air', but he spent a third of his life based in America.
There's a weird voice on Gonjasufi's first album, "A Sufi and a Killer" (Warp): quivery, blithe, at half-tempo to the song, overmodulated but seemingly faded through re-transmission, an audio copy of an audio copy.
