PRO SINGER'S first REACTION to AVI KAPLAN - ABERDEEN

[@larrywt656]

Avi's solo music is just completely soul-cleansing.

[@michelle32855]

His voice is chocolate...deep, rich, velvety and sweet

[@pamscarr8696]

Great singer, great song writer, great guitar player, great whistler and great polyphonic/overtone singer. He moves me every time I hear him. Thank you for this beautiful reaction.

[@mariamoumtzi1727]

The man harmonizes his whistling!!! More Avi, please! Otherside, I'll get by, Song for the Thankful, Full Moon are some songs you can check out.

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Thanks! Such a great singer.

[@npilot4445]

@@dannytheswedishmusixian1513 My Queen, It knows me are also great...

[@npilot4445]

OH, one more one - his duet with Peter Hollands "Black is The Color" Yep. That one is amazing!

[@sarahgould5435]

"I've got big chills!" Yep. That's called getting Avi-shook. He does that.

[@elenahume8295]

Aviii is 🔥 GORGEOUS

[@gryeskedal6300]

I needed this!!!!!

[@yvonne11972]

the alternative version of this song is the only song that instantly calms our 18 month old grandson when he wakes up from night terrors, after 2 rounds, he is ready to go back to sleep...Avi just has that tone and his voice hugs you

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Great to hear

[@RosheenQuynh]

This is so amazing!

[@kathyfolkerts4433]

He has that effect from a very early age!

[@gailseatonhumbert9199]

Thank you for this reaction. Glad that you enjoyed it. Aberdeen is done in his upper vocal register. You heard some of his lower in Change on the Rise. There is no official music video for the song "Born In California" but he did do one acoustic video from covid quarantine in his home in Tennessee that I can recommend that he has published on his KZbin channel. An older collaboration that he did in layered acappella style demonstrates more of his full vocal range and classical and opera training and can be found on KZbin as Peter Hollens and Avi Kaplan Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair on Peter's channel. It was done for Peter's first L.P. It is a very old folk song from Scotland originally that made its way over to the United States in the Alleghany Mountain area near where Avi lives now. Avi Kaplan is from California but not the coast the central valley. He spent the 6 years he was with Pentatonix based in Los Angeles and was very uncomfortable with big city life. Aberdeen is a small town he used to visit. He had not ridden in years and paid for this scene the next day with sore muscles.

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Thanks! I was wondering if he was an experieced rider :-)

[@gailseatonhumbert9199]

@@dannytheswedishmusixian1513 it was something he said everyone who rides gave him a hard time about doing without some preliminary practice 🙂

[@Froggyh63]

Stunningly beautiful song!

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

It really is

[@charlottevan_8]

Something Avi has been doing lately is releasing alternative versions of some of his songs, typically stripped back, with acoustic guitar. He'll change registers, taking it up or down depending on the original, and experimenting with how he approaches the song. It's really quite interesting. In his alternative version of "Aberdeen", he lowers the key, sticks with just the guitar, and changes the ending chorus from whistling to vocal harmonies. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4CpXnRso6qVkNE

[@miriamlester795]

I love Avi sooo much💚🎶💚🎶 All of his solo music is phenomenal 🔥🔥🔥 I’m so glad that you are reacting to this beautiful song😁😁

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Thanks!

[@belle2046]

Wow, nice. Thanks for sharing. Discover a good song 👍

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Thanks! Yeah I LOVE it

[@Bine80]

Avi is outstanding. Please check out some of his live performances. He's simply amazing.

[@bartonbagnes4605]

Avi is such a great singer. And he has a great vocal range. Love the video as well, very cinematic.

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Yup, I love everything about this.

[@kcasey1220]

The bass he’s singing in the background is amazing

[@mstewart109]

Danny, the scenery with his songs are amazing. California landscape....

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Yeah I agree

[@markhilliard4037]

Hahaha Danny, Goosebump attack... now THATS pretty much always accurate with Avi right?

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

100%. He's got my bumps on overtime :-)

[@bsmith5970]

YIKES! Avi can really do it all and move the listener. A smooth and silky voice and huge range and almost mystic sense in his music.

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Yeah very mystic and great!

[@mateusbelmontedossantos1019]

Hi. Thanks for the reaction video that was great. Please react to "Otherside" from Avi Kaplan, it's a very calming song. Check out, I think you'll enjoy.

[@SLove84711]

If you haven’t heard of Eva Cassidy her music is soul stirring. Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Time after Time, Autumn Leaves, Songbird, Wally Wally, O’Danny Boy-shoot you really can’t go wrong w/any of her music-if you decided to take a listen…enjoy!

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Thanks! I think I’ve heard her. Did she do a version if Fields Of Gold?

[@Russ_Keith]

@@dannytheswedishmusixian1513 Yes she did. And I endorse this recommendation.

[@Wankdorf183]

another awsome track from Avi is Otherside

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Thanks!

[@chrissynovful]

Field and Piers is beautiful too. It's Avi x 2. Kevin plays the cello. Also, if you haven't seen Black is the Colour (Avi and Peter Hollens ) you should check it out. It's memorising. I enjoyed this. Thank you☺

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Thanks! Got a link? 😊

[@chrissynovful]

@@dannytheswedishmusixian1513 I'm technologically challenged. I know Avi has a YT channel. Other than that...Sorry 😳

[@chrissynovful]

@@dannytheswedishmusixian1513 I tried. My phone is outdated and finicky. I did subscribe tho.

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Ah, thanks

[@charlottevan7922]

I love the layering Avi does in most of his songs - in this one, the mandolin that comes in and embellishes. While everything Avi has done is amazing, 3 of them I can initially recommend are (from before he left PTX, as Avriel & The Sequoias) "Quarter Past Four" and, from much more recently, "Full Moon" and "It Knows Me" (I suggest the studio, audio-only versions of those, for the richness and layering).

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Thanks for the tips. It knows me is on the watchlist.

[@charlottevan7922]

@@dannytheswedishmusixian1513 Here's the link to the original studio version that I prefer for the depth of layering. There's an animated video, but I find it distracts from really listening to the music. Here's my recommended one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2TYpZSJjrahq7s

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Thanks, added

[@72BlackRayne28]

I've seen a couple of your videos before and what I find Amazing is that my " chill goose bump meter thing " for this song went off at exactly the same time as yours did . Is this a coincidence . I'm don't know , but I just thought it was cool. Maybe you could recommend some songs to me you think I would like.

[@r0kus]

I think Avi may currently be the leading proponent of American folk music. I've heard that Northern Europe has a rich folk tradition as well (besides Polka, which I'm never drunk enough for). Has Eskobar done any such songs, as covers or originals? With your attraction to this song, would you consider it if not? Heck nothing limits you to just European stuff. Americana would be cool too, perhaps the old genre known as Western -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIjQZop7p9CZnLM ( _Streets of El Paso,_ Marty Robbins)

[@kathyfolkerts4433]

Just to let you know, Avi just released a new track! It's called "Healing" and it's BEAUTIFUL. You'd love it, you should react to it!

[@christinaalgate4899]

It Knows Me is amazing also

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Thanks!

[@BillBeckham]

Folk music is making a come back.

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Love this stuff

[@simpsundae]

When your from Aberdeen

[@waterbear8990]

Definitely saving this to my night time listening playlist, I feel so at peace with the world listening to this. Request: Ordinary Path/平凡之路 (kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpOThJhueZ2IrrM)

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Yeah, such a good song!

[@pamscarr8696]

Most of his songs are peaceful.

[@obe22099]

It's all about the tonality for me too. Not sure if I'm using the correct terminology. The natural sound of the voice. Avi Kaplan and Morissette do that for me subconsciously. On the other end of the spectrum are voices that sound like farm animals which I won't name but have a huge fanbase. I don't enjoy goats and sheep vocalizing it's just not for me.

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Hahaha, farm animals. I agree with your first 2 sentences. :-)

[@timmcmahon2658]

Avi has great tone and control ,. I think his tone is what sets him apart from Tim Faust , Tim has great range, but Avi has a wonderful tone,.

[@dannytheswedishmusixian1513]

Who's Tim. The "new" bass guy for Penta?

[@gailseatonhumbert9199]

@@dannytheswedishmusixian1513 no another acappella band, Homefree. Tim Foust and Avi are friendly and both live in Nashville now. They are the 2 big natural American bass singers. There is one more well known bass, Geoff Castelluci (although he claims he is a baritone singing bass) and his band is Voiceplay. Avi collaborated with Homefree for Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire it was arranged for 2 basses and they have fun with it. It was to sell their first L.P. after being on an American competition program the Sing-Off for acappella bands which they won as Pentatonix with Avi had won 2 years earlier.

[@timmcmahon2658]

@@dannytheswedishmusixian1513 Tim is Bass voice for "Home free" kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5bakJWce9ulpdU

[@pamscarr8696]

I fully agree! They both have about a 5 octave range but Avi has a rich, thick, deep, chocolate sound Tim does not have.