Cory Smith does a tribute to Andrew Hill’s 1969 classic Lift Every Voice, bringing his piano and electronics to team up with the vocal team of Kyoko Kitamura, Michael Mayo, Raquel Acevedo Clein, Steven Hrycelak and Kari Francis, with each adding various vocal percussions or some sort of “looping”. Whereas Hill had the gospel drive of Richard Davis and Freddie Waits along with the searing horns of Woody Shaw and Carlos Garnett, Smith creates a fragmented mood of sounds, with voices cut and pasted together with the rhythm sounding like a clippety clop of a short-legged gait, as on “Northern Cities Shift” and the title piece. The voices come across as if they were recorded through a kaleidoscope with synthy or piano chords changing tempos and high pitched voices going in and out like a scene from Alice in Wonderland on “Marl Every Voice” and “Kinetic Whirlwind Sculpture II”. “Ahs” and “Oohs” echo on the buzzing “Vehemently” or “Knot Every Voice” with the album closing on an orchestral Orca underwater during “Piano and Ocean Waves For Deep Relaxation”. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea soundtracks?