ABOUT US:

The MANY VOICES of SOULSPEAK

We are poets, musicians and artists associated with a non-profit organization called SOULSPEAK, which was founded by poet/artist Justin Spring in 1992. All of the members of SOULSPEAK believe that the spontaneous, communal speaking of poetry, the poetry of tribal, pre-literate man is an instinctive human act that can be learned, or more to the point, re-awakened in anyone who is willing to surrender to it. We call our contemporary, highly musical adaptation of that poetry SOULSPEAK. It is a primal, largely unconscious poetry that is close to prayer in its primal beauty and felt truth. The core members of MANY VOICES are Justin Spring and Scylla Liscombe. Click here to view Associate Members. Our recordings, which we make under the name, MANY VOICES of SOULSPEAK, combine spontaneous oral poetry, singing and music in a multi-voiced stream very similar to what poetry sounded like when we lived in tribal states, long before the human race learned to read and write. This musical, antiphonal poetry is the original form of prayer. What you will hear on our audio and video recordings, however, is not a 40,000 year-old sound, but an eclectic contemporary sound based on the very same ancient principles of spontaneous composition. Nothing is rehearsed, planned or edited. What you hear is what took place at that moment. We call these highly spiritual, spontaneous communal poems, speakings.

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