The King’s Men is the close harmony group made up of the choral scholars of the choir of King’s College Cambridge, and the group regularly tour across the UK and abroad. Recent highlights have included performances with trumpeter Alison Balsom and backing vocalists for Dizzee Rascal at London’s Electric Proms.
The group has previously released CDs of Folk Songs and Spirituals, Christmas close-harmony music and two very successful albums of early renaissance music on the Signum label, but the more ‘popular ’ side was not documented, until now.
This entertaining collection of popular repertoire is a faithful representation of the sound of the group in concert, and includes selections of the full 14 voices in tracks such as ‘Get Around’ and ‘Minnie the Moocher’; a reduced complement of 10 on ‘September’, all the way down to one-to-a-part, 7-man sound on ‘Old Man River’ and ‘A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square’.
