Giovani, tecnicamente dotati, ascoltatori trasversali della musica,
Idiolalla è una malattia vocale, un’infezione della lingua inventata. Due vocalists,
While I couldn’t find the intriguing sounding title word
On this CD, the two singers,
On first listening, the sheer range of vocal utterance astonishes, what with lightening quick switching between vocables and effective presentation of many extended vocal techniques. On the other hand, it did take me a while to relax with this mix of Dadaist-inflected aesthetics (which was originally designed to poke fun and agitate) and (much) nonsense language. Except when used in touches of irony, don’t expect to hear belle canto singing here
There is more to this music than virtuoso exploitation of avant-garde vocalism. The lack of intelligible lyrics (much of the time) doesn’t impede the singers’ ability to sound in turn lyrical, childlike, declamatory, menacingly silly, hysterically scary or amazingly like Inuit throat singers. Just when one imagines they have run the gamut of emotional set-pieces, they pull out a comically operatic bit, including wicked
Stay with it. This CD rewards repeated listening and reveals initially hidden structural elements and an adventurous and playful soul.
“Now that was good
The seven selections have elements of both jazz and musique actuelle but also encompass a variety of musical styles. An almost Las Vegas style sentiment surfaces in
The bilingual French and English liner notes describe