Jazz Articles about Libera Societ

Libera Societ: Al m

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 1999

Voices: speaking, singing, orating, declaiming, singing. Singly and in larger groups of varying sizes. Sometimes singing and speaking in various overlays at the same time. Sometimes approaching the edges of today's vocal avant-garde ("E.U.E.," “Solotuè samosaisa," etc.) Sometimes mimicking some of the oldest vocal forms of the Western world, as on the gorgeously moving chantlike “Iesò variò tikà."

What are they saying? What are they singing? I'm not sure, and neither are they. They claim to be speaking “Lipit," a ...