Spare, undulating music written for a dance/theater work entitled Shelter. Three violas casually stroll through their notes leading to an alluring voice and piano music...

Spare, undulating music written for a dance/theater work entitled Shelter. Three violas casually stroll through their notes leading to an alluring voice and piano music that acts as an extended coda to the string music that preceded it. This is a 16-minute CD EP/single. “Pure, restrained and rigorously beautiful.” [Alvin Curran] “Long, irregular phrases evoke a kind of storytelling, and the use of multiple violas creates a panorama of shifting perspectives. The music is unadorned and plain-spoken, with no artifice whatsoever. My burning skin to sleep is scored for piano (softly chiming and sustained chords which hang in the air like stars) and the multi-tracked vocalise of singer Marghreta Cordero. Her singing is both mournful and erotic, and while the ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ feel spontaneous, one notes how perfectly the vocal parts are tuned to each other, as well as to Peters’s ringing piano chords.” [ClassicalNet] “Behind the West Coast spaciousness of this work, there seems to lurk the mind of a composer as scientific and intellectual in approach as American progenitor Charles Ives…. Cordero’s voice is electrifying, with a heart-rending vibrato on line-ending high notes, a sensuous and intimate dark-toned warmth in its lower ranges.” [Dusted magazine] “This is a gentle, social, considerate piece; each component supports and is supported, sheltered and given shelter, by the others.” [Int’l Record Review]