Vox Humana (Daniel Amos album)
Vox Humana is the sixth studio album by Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos, released on Refuge Records in 1984. It is the third album in their "¡Alarma! Chronicles" album cycle. Background. "Vox Humana" was a much brighter album than its predecessor, "Doppelgänger", and included catchy, synthesizer-driven pop songs with lyrics about technology's role in American culture. "Travelog" was a song about a television-obsessed man "basking in the blue light". Danish author Søren Kierkegaard, Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, and Britons Malcolm Muggeridge and William Blake are all quoted in the liner notes  of the album. DA also included a tribute to Blake with the ballad, "William Blake." "Dance Stop", a song condemning nuclear arms escalation, asked listeners to dance to the song and stop suddenly when the word "stop" is sung. Due to the fast, upbeat punk rock style of the song, it is nearly impossible to follow the song's musical directions. The song went on to become a popular concert favorite for DA fans in later years, with audience members doing their best to follow the rule. "Vox Humana" was the third of a four-part series of albums by  DA entitled "The ¡Alarma! Chronicles", which also included the albums "¡Alarma!", "Doppelgänger", and "Fearful Symmetry". The band raised eyebrows on the tour that followed each release, by presenting a full multimedia event complete with video screens synchronized to the music, something that was unusual in the early 1980s for any band. Tour. Although when the album was recorded, D.A. only had four members, guitarist Greg Flesch joined in time for the 1984 "Vox Humana Tour". Though keyboardist Rob Watson was part of the band when the album was made, he was unavailable for the photo session due to being on  tour with Petra. Leo Sorentino, road manager for The Choir, appeared on the album cover in Watson's place (despite not particularly resembling him). Reissue. In 2016, Stunt Records revisited the album as part of its ongoing deluxe reissue series re-issued the album as a two-CD and a three-panel digipak.