There's a certain new age aspect to Sound in Spirit, an unusual release from the highly successful a cappella male chorus
Chanticleer. But there's plenty here for steely-eyed rationalists, too. The disc marks a departure for this durable group, founded in 1978. "This is the first
Chanticleer recording totally conceived for recording and remixing in a studio environment," writes producer
Steve Barnett in the liner notes. There are ambient sounds, birds chirping, rainsticks, and thunder tubes. And other passages in the notes seem aimed at the readers of Spirituality & Health magazine. "Chanting releases harmonic energy, triggering a spontaneous identification with the sacred," it says here.