David Thomas Broughton & Juice Vocal Ensemble – Sliding the Same Way (2014)

After meeting at SXSW in 2011 Juice Vocal Ensemble and David Thomas Broughton kept in contact about possibly working together, but getting together is difficult for artists who are busy with their own projects, particularly if one is based in the Far East. Finally in 2013, during a couple of short trips back, David gathered the group in his home town of Otley to spend a few hours recording. Sliding the Same Way spans the hymnal to human beatbox, discord to angelic harmony, with lyrical themes displaying the weaknesses of men, via rural imagery and sombre love songs, to the decline of northern industry and pub brawls.
Broughton had some basic ideas; Juice had no idea what they would be faced with. After some short discussion and a little practise…