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Adroit and imaginative, Eupnea offers slightly more than half an hour of vocal and woodwind intertwining that is both creative and calculated. The brainchild of Portuguese vocalist Vera Morais this Netherlands-based quintet performs seven wordless or wordy tracks that mate the voices of Līva Dump, Sarah van Eijk and Morais with the flutes and piccolos of Teresa Costa and Ketija Ringa-Karahona. Morais’ arrangements and verbalized texts meld the expressed syllables or sounds projected by the… Read More