$99.00
ETHNIC VOCAL PHRASES – BY HAYAT SELIM is our next vocal solo instrument for impressive soundtracks. It brings powerful and emotional vocal phrases directly at your fingertips. Ensoul your music with the distinctive touch of the human voice.
Our Ethnic Vocal library features expressive live phrases. It provides true human musicality, captured in a real artistic performance. You will be fascinated by the ease of use and the instant emotional depth of this instrument.
Hayat Selim (b.1990) is a film composer and singer-songwriter from Cairo, Egypt. She graduated with a masters in composition for screen from the Royal College of Music, London, and is now based in the UK. Her single, Mirage, her first in classical Fusha Arabic, was nominated in the Best Song category of the Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2019 and started opening doors in Middle Eastern singing. Hayat writes music for film and games, often merging Western classical orchestration with world music, atmospheric soundscapes and vocals. She sings in English, German, Arabic, Italian, Latin and French and has sung in Bulgarian and Hebrew on some occasions.
“When I was commissioned by Sonuscore for this library, I tried to visualize what themes in an ethnic voice library would work for a wide range of movie genres. I hope my phrases will be useful for film composers to create intense and emotional soundtracks,” she says.
ETHNIC VOCAL PHRASES – BY HAYAT SELIM contains more than 600 varied live-performed phrases, split into 8 main and 4 bonus themes. Each different in style, the themes all contain sets of powerful & emotional phrases.
The themes are in Classical Arabic (Fusha), as well as different imaginary tribal languages, influenced by African, Native American and Latin. Also, power vowel phrases and mixed voice vowel phrases with overblowing are included. Everything, you could possibly need to create astonishingly emotional and expressive music.
All themes are recorded in 4 different keys. With minimum pitch shifting they are playable in all chromatic keys. The musical material is consistent in all keys.
Designed to perfectly fit your track: Each theme comes with 15 different phrases and 2 short endings, divided into 5 separate starting, middle and end phrases. This setup gives you the freedom to conveniently combine different phrases the way you want.
