tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-348752792008-08-17T19:53:44.782-05:00samirnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34875279.post-40591153518048150712007-08-19T01:58:00.004-05:002008-08-17T19:15:19.827-05:00AUDITIONS SCHEDULE COMING SOON<br /><p><a href="http://sugroups.wustl.edu/%7Ewhispers/gigs.shtml"><strong>HIRE US</strong></a> (email <a href="mailto:ilana@mosaicwhispers.com">ilana@mosaicwhispers.com</a>) </p>Aaronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34875279.post-84494692758780447252007-08-19T01:28:00.000-05:002007-10-16T22:59:49.175-05:00<strong>UPDATE: Website Issues</strong><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">We've been having some website difficulties as of late, so please excuse the outdatedness of much of the site. For current contact information regarding the group, please contact Ilana at </span><a href="mailto:ilana@mosaicwhispers.com"><span style="font-size:85%;">ilana@mosaicwhispers.com</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">! Thanks, and please excuse our dust!</span><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Newbie Whispers!</strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">We have newbies! Congratulations to our 5 newest members, who join the 88 whispers who came before them in the whisper family: Rachel Metter '11, Ellen Miller '11, Marin Tollefson '11, Dylan Tucker '11, and Yael Warach '11! Thank you to all our callbackees and auditionees, you were all great!</span><br /><br /><strong>2007 Fall and Spring Tour</strong><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Mosaic Whispers is thrilled to announce that we will be traveling to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for our annual Fall Tour (October 19-21) and to Washington, DC for our annual Spring Tour (March 8-16). For more information or to arrange for the group to perform while on either tour, please email Katie Sullivan (</span><a href="mailto:katie.s@mosaicwhispers.com"><span style="font-size:85%;">katie.s@mosaicwhispers.com</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">) for Fall Tour, or Ariel Wentworth (</span><a href="mailto:ariel@mosaicwhispers.com"><span style="font-size:85%;">ariel@mosaicwhispers.com</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">) for Spring Tour!</span><br /><br /><strong>Mosaic Whispers to Appear on “Voices Only 2007!”</strong><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Whispers is honored to have “Be Here” off our new album, “Behind Bars” selected to appear on the Voices Only 2007 compilation! This is our second appearance on a Voices Only compilation, and marks our 5th appearance on a national compilation CD since 2002!</span><br /><br /><strong>Whispers on MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube!</strong><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Check us out on MySpace </span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispers" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:85%;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">! You’ll find more songs, our updated repertoire, and more! Don’t miss our </span><a href="http://wustl.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2200011028" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:85%;">facebook group</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> too at, where you can check out who’s who in the group and see more photos! See </span><a href="http://sugroups.wustl.edu/~whispers/index.html#here#here"><span style="font-size:85%;">below</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> for links to our videos or visit our </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/mosaicwhispers"><span style="font-size:85%;">YouTube Channel</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> for all our videos! </span><br /><br /><strong>Whispers Albums Available at WashU Campus Store!</strong><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Mosaic Whispers is happy to announce an exciting partnership with Washington University’s campus store, located in Mallinckrodt Center! All 8 studio albums, including the brand new album, and our in stock national compilations are available in the Mosaic Whispers display, so check it out! WashU students can even purchase albums with their campus card!</span><br /><br /><strong>"BEHIND BARS" IS NOW AVAILABLE!</strong><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" src="http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w277/mosaicwhispers/CoverFinalSmall.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Mosaic Whispers is proud to announce the release of our 8th studio album, Behind Bars! The 12 track album is our best yet, featuring recent favorites like Coldplay's Fix You, Stacie Orrico's Stuck, and Raphael Saadiq's Be Here, among others. It's doing great too..."Be Here" has been selected for the "Voices Only 2007" compilation, and the album has been garnering loads of critical praise! The album can be purchased for only $15 ($17 w/Shipping) at any Mosaic Whispers performance, at the WashU Campus Store, or by emailing </span><a href="mailto:sales@mosaicwhispers.com"><span style="font-size:85%;">sales@mosaicwhispers.com</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">. The CD will also soon be available for online purchase at </span><a href="http://shop.wustl.edu/"><span style="font-size:85%;">shop.wustl.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> and other online vendors.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>RARB’s Praise for Behind Bars:</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Elie Landau writes that “there is a great deal to enjoy. The opener is the first a cappella version I've heard of Be Here and it's a terrific job all around by soloist and arranger Darius Bates, who turns in another solid solo on Gavin DeGraw's Meaning.” Bring Me to Life is “an energetic, engaging track, made all the more impressive by the knowledge that the group was singing it back in 2002, before most everyone else was. Thank You doesn't show much inventiveness but, despite the resemblance to the original, grooves nonetheless.” Guang Ming Whitley loved the “lush and interesting Eleanor Rigby.” Ryan Joyce writes that “Behind Bars is forty-three minutes of high energy, well executed, and generally pleasurable a cappella boasts a track list of both a cappella favorites and uncommon, riskier tracks. Obstacle 1 and Bachelorette are great examples of how production can work to a track's benefit. […] Meaning succeeds with its smart, creative arrangement, and rousing but not overly complicated sound. The result is a standout track.” He applauds “Meryl Zimmerman’s near flawless solo on Thank You (whose scatting was reminiscent of Ella Fitzgerald's live recording of Mack The Knife)” and comments that “the soloists are consistently strong, but Darius Bates and Elysa Kahan stand out on Meaning and Bachelorette, respectively. But above all, Mosaic Whispers knows how to end an album right. Fix You is five minutes of near perfection, with its simplicity and superior solo outclassing, in my opinion, the recent Off the Beat</span><span style="font-size:78%;"> recording. John Michael Rotello and group fire on all cylinders for the first four and a half minutes, but as good as the rest of the song is, the last thirty seconds are even better. It's a perfect end to very good album.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Check out the full RARB review </span><a href="http://www.rarb.org/reviews/729.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">here</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">!</span>Aaronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34875279.post-1159241051087931412006-08-31T19:22:00.000-05:002007-08-26T20:45:58.311-05:00<span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Click to listen, Due to space constraints, the songs link to our MySpace page. You don't need an account to listen!</em></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispers"><span style="font-size:85%;">Fix You,</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> from Behind Bars (2007)<br /></span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispers"><span style="font-size:85%;">Be Here - Raphael Sa'adiq,</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> from Behind Bars (2007), <span style="color:#ff0000;">Appears on Voices Only 2007!</span><br /></span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispers"><span style="font-size:85%;">Hunter - Dido,</span></a><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispers"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">from Behind Bars (2007)<br /></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.mypspace.com/mosaicwhispers"><span style="font-size:85%;">Obstacle 1 - Interpol, </span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">from Behind Bars (2007)<br /></span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispers"><span style="font-size:85%;">Bring Me to Life - Evanescence,</span></a><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispers"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">from Behind Bars (2007)</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispersbehindbars">Meaning - Gavin DeGraw</a>, from Behind Bars (2007) </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispersbehindbars">Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles</a>, from Behind Bars (2007)</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispersbehindbars">Thank You - Boyz II Men</a>, from Behind Bars (2007)</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispersbehindbars">Stuck - Stacie Orrico</a>, from Behind Bars (2007)</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispersmusic">Only in Dreams - Weezer</a>, from Defrosted (2004), <span style="color:#ff0000;">Appears on Voices Only 2005 and CAMO 2005!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispersmusic">Cuidado (Be Careful), </a>from Defrosted (2004)</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispersmusic">Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson</a>, from Against the Grain (2002), <span style="color:#ff0000;">Appears on BOCA 2002!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mosaicwhispersmusic">Uninvited (live) - Alanis Morisette</a>, from Against the Grain (2002), <span style="color:#ff0000;">Appears on CARA 2002!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;">VIDEOS</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="color:#3333ff;">(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/mosaicwhispers">Visit our YouTube Channel</a></span><span style="color:#3333ff;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/mosaicwhispers"> for ALL our videos</a>!)</span> </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/mosaicwhispers"><span style="font-size:100%;">Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap (Live, Splash 2007)</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">All at Sea - Jamie Cullum (Live, Splash 2007)</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Portions for Foxes - Rilo Kiley (Live, Splash 2007)</span><br />Still Fighting It - Ben Folds (Live, Splash 2007)<br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Middle of Me - The Good Luck Joes (Live, Splash 2007)</span> </a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Stuck – Stacie Orrico (Live, Splash 2006)<br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/klwqUkIlEkc" width="430" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Fix You - Coldplay (Live, Splash 2006)<br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xz5JoJt0gJk" width="430" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> </span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />I Believe in a Thing Called Love – The Darkness (Live, Splash 2006)<br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SKy1rqqg3g0" width="430" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br />Woke Up this Morning (Chosen One) – Alabama 3 (Live, Splash 2006)<br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SKy1rqqg3g0" width="430" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br />They – Jem (Live, Splash 2006)<br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cc00kwU32sY" width="430" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br />Walk Away – Christina Aguilera (Live, Splash 2006)<br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aXlzbSBWtn8" width="430" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br />Bachelorette – Bjork (Live, Splash 2006)<br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uORkiYZ3Zpk" width="430" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;"></span>samirnoreply@blogger.com