Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Ritual De Amor (Desire)- Yanni Featuring Ender Thomas
2. Llama De Amor -Yanni Featuring Olga Tañón
3. Y Te Vas -Yanni Featuring Andy Vargas
4. Ni La Fuerza Del Destino -Yanni Featuring Christian Castro
5. Unico Amor (Enchantment) -Yanni Featuring Ender Thomas
6. No Ha Dejado De Llover -Yanni Featuring José Feliciano
7. Quédate Conmigo -Yanni Featuring Ender Thomas & Chloe
8. Nei Tuoi Occhi (In The Mirror) -Yanni Featuring Nathan Pacheco & Chloe
9. Eterno Es Este Amor -Yanni Featuring Lucero
10. Volver -Yanni Featuring Ender Thomas, Arturo Sandoval & Willy Chirino
11. Mi Todo Eres Tú (Until The Last Moment) -Yanni Featuring Ender Thomas & Chloe
12. Yanni & Arturo -Yanni Featuring Arturo Sandoval
13. Viviré Por Tí -Yanni Featuring Olga Tañón & Nathan
14. En Silencio -Yanni Featuring Ender Thomas
15. Que Te Vaya Bien -Yanni Featuring Chloe
16. Amare Di Nuovo (Adagio In C Minor) -Yanni Featuring Nathan Pacheco
17. Volver A Creer -Yanni Featuring José José

Disc 2:

1. Yanni
2. Quédate Conmigo (Yanni Voces Documentary)
3. Ni La Fuerza Del Destino (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni Featuring Christian Castro
4. Llama De Amor (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni Featuring Olga Tañón
5. No Ha Dejado De Llover (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni Featuring José Feliciano
6. Ritual De Amor (Desire) (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni Featuring Ender Thomas
7. Quédate Conmigo (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni Featuring Ender Thomas & Chloe
8. Y Te Vas (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni Featuring Andy Vargas
9. Unico Amor (Enchantment) (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni Featuring Nathan Pacheco
10. Eterno Es Este Amor (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni Featuring Lucero
11. Yanni & Arturo (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni
12. Viviré Por Tí (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni Featuring Olga Tañón & Nathan
13. Mi Todo Eres Tú (Until The Last Moment) (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni Featuring Ender Thomas & Chloe
14. Volver A Creer (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni Featuring José José
15. No Esperes De Nuevo A Mañana (Yanni Voces Documentary)-Yanni
16. Nican (In Your Heart) (En Vivo Desde Acapulco) The Nican Children's Choir; Yanni Featuring Nathan Pacheco, Ender Thomas, Leslie Mills & Chole
17. Eterno Es Este Amor (En Vivo Desde Acapulco)-Yanni Featuring Lucero
18. Ni La Fuerza Del Destino (En Vivo Desde Acapulco)-Yanni Featuring Christian Castro
19. Viviré Por Tí (En Vivo Desde Acapulco) -Yanni Featuring Olga Tañón & Nathan
20. Volver A Creer (En Vivo Desde Acapulco)-Yanni Featuring José José
21. Ritual De Amor (Desire) (En Vivo Desde Acapulco)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1182 in Music
• Released on: 2009-03-24
• Number of discs: 2

Album Description
DVD Contains the making of "Voces" and live footage from the concert in acapulco.

Customer Reviews

Adult alternative music at its best
As most know who have followed Yanni over the years will recall, his early works were keyboards only recorded in his home studio (except for drums performed by Charlie Adams). He created some wonderful music with those keyboards. Gradually Yanni began adding other instruments besides keyboards and eventually progressed to a full orchestra. As with all great composers it is only natural that they compose for voice or their works have lyrics added by others and "Voices" is the perfect evolutional process

With "Voices" Yanni is sure to lose some old fans wanting to hear the instrumental Yanni they admire, but; at the same time he will win a large number of new fans who prefer lyrics to instrumentals. Beethoven said "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life" and I believe music is The Voice! All music comes from the creator's inner voice which means it must be sung on some level. The voice is the oldest and most versatile and passionate musical instrument known to man.

"Ethnicity" gave us a preview of what can happen when a Yanni song is set to lyrics. "The Promise" from "Ethnicity" was originally the song "Secret Vows" from the "Out of Silence "CD. Both the instrumental and vocal versions are great but personally I feel the lyric version is more passionate and the vocal really brings out the gospel flavor of the melody.

There are two versions of "Voices", the English version and "Voces" the Latin version. "Voces" features famous Latin vocalist and they lyrics are all in Spanish and Italian. "Voices" is mostly English with a little less than half of the selections in Spanish and Italian. This makes "Voices/Voces" an immediate international sensation on the level of Josh Groban and phenomenal producer David Foster. I purchased both versions because they are very different products. Yanni being the romantic that he is it is no surprise that Spanish and Italian are used in the lyrics and those are two extremely romantic languages.

You can preview some full length songs and see videos at Yanni's official website. Watching the videos gave me goose bumps because the singers are so powerful and passionate sparing nothing in their performance. Of the songs that you can preview I can tell that there are going to be many tracks that my wife and I will be dancing to at our Saturday night ballroom dance parties. "Kill me with Your Love" is a great danceable bolero that that will be a sure file hit. I hate to compare Yanni to Delirium but with a little electronic ambience this track would fit right into that sound.

Yanni's earlier compositions and were probably not written with the goal of being specifically Latin rhythmically they do work quite well. "Desire" has a samba flavor. "The Keeper" is a nice slow rumba again with that Delirium feel. "Vivire Por Ti" also a nice rumba. "Nican" sounds like something from "Ethnicity" with the childrens choir and chanting; this is a great track that conjures up some ancient spirit. "Unico Amore/Enchantment" is a Yanni classic set to Italian lyrics translated to "only love." "Nei Tuoi Occhi/In the Mirror" (in Italian meaning "in your eyes") is an awesome duet with Chloe and Nathan Pacheco. "Amare di Nuovo/Adagio in C Minor" in Italian means "to love of new."

There are some new songs on "Voices" that help the collection out by giving your ears a break for the reinterpreted songs and your mind trying to decide which you like better, the original or the lyric version. "Voices" is adult alternative music at its best and if you keep an open mind, you are going to love it.

Sunrise.

VERY different from companion "Voices"
Made in USA in 2009, Serial# 8869-747213-2, Playing Time 130:23

I typically don't bother writing a review for products like this one... there are usually plenty of other people that do so. But after reading the 20+ reviews for "Voces", I was compelled to write one because no one really documented any type of comparison between "Voices" and "Voces", which are SIGNIFICANTLY different releases!

- "Voces" includes 17 tracks on the CD, 12 of which do NOT appear on "Voices";
- "Voces" features a portfolio of singers, many of them well known (Jose Feliciano, Lucero, José José, etc.) while "Voices" concentrates on only 4, all of them "new" talent (except for Leslie Mills);
- the content of the "bonus" DVD is almost entirely different

"Voces" is targeting the spanish-speaking market, which is unfortunate for the DVD as many of the singers make comments in spanish during the "behind-the-scenes" segment that the producers did not "bother" to sub-title in english (while Yanni's comments, which are in english, are sub-titled in spanish).

The "Voces" DVD also features 5 tracks from the concert in Acapulco.

I must admit that I prefer the "Voices" version: Chloe, Ender and Nathan are very distincting talents, while the majority of the singers on "Voces" are good, but not truly as exceptional.

What is obvious on BOTH releases is the chemistry between the participants: the joy, mutual respect and true talent transpires throughout, and is obvious on each release's DVD.

Yanni has of course created high-quality production for his concerts, though this tour has a bit too much of a Las Vegas flavour for my taste; I tend to prefer numbers which showcase the singer and the music, without the need for choreography.

People will either love or hate these twin releases: it has the Yanni magic sprinkled all over it, but the (mostly) latin vocals, even when delivered with passion, sometimes distract from the charm of the melody.

Here are my personal scores:
- CD: "Voices" 4/5 "Voces" 3/5
- DVD:"Voices" 3/5 "Voces" 4/5
(even though I don't understand spanish!)

Nice Change For Yanni
The New Yanni CD/DVD is very enjoyable. Now that being said, I was anticipating the Yanni album I knew of the past. But this is quite different and the change is good. A little new, old and in between shows the growth of Yanni's music. I think this has a broader appeal and takes Yanni beyond New Age into a Newer Age. Bravo!