His voice, barring a few stray croaks, was minnow-like: a terse, silvery thing, darting through the stillness or slicing through the brackish rumble.
In testament, I suppose, to the loyalty the politician commands, almost none of those voices – bar Tariq Ali, in the most head-down-and-behave tones – appear.
All this constituted a different kind of harmony and counterpoint, one that had little to do with Mozart's major-minor harmonies, crossing voices and bar lines.
Earlier this month on Independent Voices, Mira Bar-Hillel wrote a passionate denunciation of Israeli conduct in Gaza.
During this time I started writing a blog, Voces tras las Rejas (Voices Behind Bars), which I managed to dictate during the few minutes each day I was allowed to use the telephone.
And I wanted to do an exhibit to show the world that there are a lot of talented, complex human beings with no voices behind bars". .
That is why Margaret the Warrior's death evoked such nostalgia, why Norman Tebbit remains the voice of the saloon bar and even Ukip's Nigel Farage can do a good imitation.
What we all have noted with delight is that, despite the pounding and throbbing club music, the discussion — held in the raised near-shout of bar voice — is both swaddled in the music and yet entirely letter-clear.
They included Bonnie Bishop, a Nashville singer whose powerful voice raised the bar for to-the-rafters country soul, and Aaron Lee Tasjan, who filled the Cannery Row Ballroom to near capacity for wry, hook-driven country rock straight out of Tom Petty's playbook.
