Wohlever & Toussant: Breatharian's...

Singer's R. Wohlever & A. Toussant enjoy a beautiful complementarity. Perhaps they have both been absorbing nothing but sunlight for months now, and in singing they release the energy into the air through voice and heart. In a single night between them they produced a broad, fascinating and complete emotional spectrum, more tune & tone variety than either one of them could have generated alone. Ashley played a set of covers and originals in a mellifluous and piping sweet voice of pure high summer clean cotton in bloom. Her tone palette is an opiate – powdered and light - devoid of gut or growl – as if she sings from her top most chakra and never looks down. Her quivering vibrato lends the notes she shakes enough shooting starlight that they become momentary denizens of their own sky. Rebecca played an all-original set of tunes with a singing voice and song subject matter by comparison more earthen, a rich loam of sweet top soil - wind in the wheat, clay and fire, wood and water with a similarly applied vibrato lending choice notes and words ecstatic religious emphasis.

These are two highly enjoyable and talented local singing voices, easy on the ears, requiring little more than that to catch the luminous tendrils of sonic subtly. The mix at Boba emphasized the two lovelies with acoustic guitars in both sets sounding edgeless, ethereal, and lunar under the songs.

Really very nice, this was an evening’s acoustic entertainment that was worth the hundred miles commute and needed only a hot cup of tea to realize perfection. And so it was…..BoBa Akron Sunday January 8, 2006….ahhhhhh.