ABOUT VOICES ONLY
Voices Only was founded in the fall of 2004. Brock Harris noticed there was a plethora of high quality a cappella being produced on a yearly basis, and single-disc compilations were no longer big enough to accommodate that quality. He approached his friend and a cappella colleague Corey Slutsky about the idea for a double-disc a cappella compilation album, and Corey jumped on board with enormous enthusiasm.
Voices Only includes not just the "best" a cappella tracks each year, but the best mix of songs, each chosen for a different and specific reason (including soloists, production, arrangements, innovation, etc.).
A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. A cappella is Italian for like in the chapel (music); the term is due to restrictions on the use of instruments in medieval churches.
Read about a cappella at Wikipedia
Corey Slutsky
Corey Slutsky has been a singer, songwriter, vocal percussionist, arranger, exec board member and president in four a cappella groups (three collegiate - USC SoCal VoCals, University of Michigan Gentlemen and Kol Hakavod, and one professional - STREETNiX). He has served as an album reviewer for RARB, a nominator for the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards (CARA), a two-time ICCA judge and recently finished his master's thesis on "the growth and explosion of a cappella music in last 10-15 years."
Brock Harris
Brock Harris is solely responsible for a cappella at the University of Southern California. He founded the SoCal VoCals and the Sirens in 1996 and 1997, respectively. Since graduating from USC, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America (CASA), is a former album reviewer for the Recorded A Cappella Review Board (RARB) and has judged several ICCA competitions.