Jubila 432

Description

Before meaning "to feel great joy," jubiler meant "to shout and sing with gladness." Jubiler was about expressing joy through songs and cries, making one's voice the channel of inner jubilation, broadcasting it to the winds, sharing it with everyone, making it contagious. With Leïla Martial, it becomes a character: Jubilä, with an umlaut as in naïve, coöperate, reëlect, and maieutic. Jubilä wears multicolored costumes, plays a thousand instruments, speaks incomprehensible languages, and dances like a jack-in-the-box but, above all, she sings. And to say she sings is too little, for her singing is so diverse and extravagant that it seems to come from elsewhere. From where? That is what we will try to understand. Jubilä is double. Actually triple. In addition to being a more or less elusive character, she is the name of a show, subtitled "Solo for multi-timbred vocalist," and an album, Jubilä 432. But Jubilä is also one, that is, three in one: the vocalist (and singer), musician, composer, and improviser Leïla Martial. If we had to summarize Jubilä 432 in one sentence, we would say it is a vocal odyssey in a canoe with Johann Sebastian Bach as a paddling companion, where we branch off and take detours without ever losing course, where we traverse a variety of landscapes—forest, sea, room, church, Wild West—that are anything but exotic because Jubilä-Leïla is at home everywhere and we are her guests.