Lithuanian-American composer Zibuokle Martinaityte focuses on music for unaccompanied choir on this album, performed by the award-winning Latvian Radio Choir under the direction of Sigvards Klava. Martinaityte grew up in the Soviet Union, at a time when people were often afraid to speak openly. She realized early in her life that music was a medium in which she could express herself freely and without any self-censorship. Although she avoids language or text, the four choral works presented here are all extremely expressive and deeply emotional - focusing on the enormous sonic possibilities of the human voice. Martinaityte began composing the first work on this album, "Aletheia" (2022), just as Russian troops were invading Ukraine. Her "Ululations" (2023) is an equally audible, ritualistic expression of grief, written in the same way. "Chant des Voyelles" is the name of one of the iconic bronze sculptures by Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz in the art collection of the John D. Rockefeller Estate. Martinaityte wrote her "Chants de Voyelles" based on vowels while she was an artist-in-residence at the estate's Pocantico Center. The final work on the album, "The Blue of Distance", is a much earlier work from 2010. Again, the vocal part contains no sung texts, although the work was originally inspired by a written text. The Latvian Radio Choir is one of the best professional chamber choirs in Europe and has made a name for itself on the world map with its fine feel for musical material, its expressiveness and its incredibly wide vocal range.