Roomful of Teeth has long pushed boundaries on what a choir can do, using their mouthes, tongues, and throats for more than simply singing or humming. Singer/songwriter/composer Gabriel Kahane consistently ignores the boundaries between pop, theater, and concert music – if it contains tunes and can support lyrics, it’s on the table. Knowing these facts, it seems inevitable that these artists would come together on a project.
With cuts for each singer in Roomful of Teeth, Elevator Songs presents a cycle concerning the denizens of an unnamed hotel that defies all boundaries of space and time, allowing the stories to take place in the present, past, and future. Given the eclectic nature of the narratives, it makes sense that each track follows its own…