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Calendrier lagunaire
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Song for Counter Tenor or Mezzo Soprano, in French, using the text, "Calendrier lagunaire," poem by Aime Fernand David Cesaire, (1913-2008). Written for a Jazz Rock Ensemble, with Reggae flavor. Two Guitars, Bass, Piano, and Drums with percussion
jazz classical instrumental vocal opera orchestra chamber ballet
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Composer for large-scale performance work, ballet and opera. Have written music for classical theatrical productions of Shakespeare, ("The Tempest," "The Twelft
Loren Lieberman is a native of Denver, Colorado, now living on the West Coast in California, where he is best known for his work as an actor in Classical and Shakespearean Theatre. He has a degree from Sonoma State University in Theatre Arts, and has been an Honor's Music Composition Student at the College of Marin, Santa Rosa Junior College, and at Sonoma State University. He has won an award for composition from the Redwood Empire Music Association. He has recently completed an opera in Russian, based on the novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "Cancer Ward", (and of the same name), and is currently working on his fourth opera, based on the Classical Tragedy by Sophocles, "Oedipus the King," with a libretto in Ancient Greek. His interest in languages has shaped much of his artistic temperment, and he is self taught in Russian and Sanskrit, and has hopes to begin his next opera, Shakespeare's, "Romeo and Juliet," in Hindi.
Song Info
Genre
World Reggae
Charts
Peak #121
Peak in subgenre #26
Author
Aime Fernand David Cesaire
Rights
adhikapokoya 2010
Uploaded
February 23, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.1 MB 128 kbps 4:31
Story behind the song
I was requested to write a song for counter-tenor, and was sent a poem. The poem was in French. It was suggested that the song be written with a Caribbean "flavor." After three months of basically being ignored, the song was written quickly, in about three days.
Lyrics
Calendrier lagunaire, (1991) J'habite une blessure sacrée J'habite des ancêtres imaginaires J'habite un vouloir obscur J'habite un long silence J'habite une soif irrémédiable J'habite un voyage de mille ans J'habite une guerre de trois cents ans J'habite un culte desaffecte entre bulbe et caieu J'habite l'espace inexploite J'habite du basalte non une coulee mais de lave le mascaret qui remonte la valleuse e  toute allure et brule toutes les mosquees Je m'accomode de mon vieux de cet avatar d'une version du paradis absurdement ratee -c'est bien pire qu'un enfer- J'habite de temps en temps une de mes plaies chaque minute je change d'appartement et toute paix m'effraie tourbillon de feu ascidie comme nulle autre pour poussieres de mondes egares ayant crache volcan mes entrailles d'eau vive Je reste avec mes pains de mots mes minerais secrets J'habite donc une vaste pensee mais le plus souvent je prefere me confiner dans la plus petite de mes idees ou bien J'habite une formule magique les seuls premiers mots tout le reste etant oublie J'habite l'embacle J'habite la debacle J'habite le pan d'un grand desastre J'habite le plus souvent le pis le plus sec du piton le plus efflanque -la louve de ces nuages- J'habite l'aureole des cactacees J'habite un troupeau de chevres tirant sur la tetine de l'arganier le plus desole A  vrai dire je ne sais plus mon adresse exacte bathyale ou abyssale J'habite le trou des poulpes Je me bats avec un poulpe pour un trou de poulpe frere n'insistez pas vrac de varech m'accrochant en cuscute ou me deployant en porana C'est tout un et que le flot roule et que ventouse le soleil et que flagelle le vent ronde bosse de mon neant La pression atmospherique ou plutot historique agrandit demesurement mes maux meme si elle rend somptueux certains de mes mots
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