Vox & Sermo

Vox & Sermo is Michael Stanley's newest project and band name for an, amongst others, The Seeds, The Beatles, Beach Boys, REM and Clash inspired songwriting exercise. Vox & Sermo focuses the songs on the vocals and choir arrangements, together with laid back guitar, bass, organ, synthezisers and drum tracks. At times also classical instruments are used. Michael Stanley’s musical base is well settled in the 60’s which also is reflected in the song arrangements, with a typical 60’s songs build up including some very short songs, some even below 2 minutes. But at time experiments are conducted, e.g. in the song “Leading” where only A verses are used. In “Leading” the variation of the verses are then handled through major guitar and choir arrangements. In the song “Love You” everything is build on the intro guitar riff, and the song evolves from that into riff to the desperate vocal outro in the solo part. Also the Tonebender Fuzz pedal finds its way into the late 60’s inspired song “Going Down” and "My Way". 60's inspired ballads can also be heard in the songs "She Would Say" and "Wonder", favorities among the female teenager fans. All songs written by Michael Stanley. All instruments played by Michael Stanley.

History of Vox & Sermo

Michael Stanley has since his teenage years been an active musician/songwriter and has performed live on 100'rds of venues, from small clubs to some of Europe’s largest festivals. Michael Stanley is Danish, but presently lives in Switzerland. Michael Stanley has a masters degree in Chemical engineering, a Ph.D. in Physics and an E-MBA, so probably not the usual profile of a songwriter. Besides writing and playing music Michael presently works in the public Health Business. The Vox & Sermo songs are presently in negotiation with major record labels, but might appear for sale on this page as well during 2010. Special demo versions may be distributed for “promotional” usage only, for interested record labels presently not in negotiations with Vox & Sermo or e.g. radio stations in limited numbers. Also and especially true Michael Stanley fans may get a chance to get to hear the new songs before they appear in public. If interested, an inquiry may be sent to Vox & Sermo on voxandsermo@live.com

Main Influences on Vox & Sermo

The Seeds, The Beatles, Beach Boys, REM, Clash