THE ETERNAL VOICE in an album by Fabio Golfetti under the Brazilian version of Invisible Opera, and was recorded between June 1990 and January 1991. It is a series of electro-acoustic compositions based on ancient oriental melodies, performed by Fabio Golfetti (who also fronts the psychedelic Brazilian band Violeta De Outono), May East and Renato Mello with guitars, synthesizers and bells.
Invisible Opera Company of Tibet is a code name created by the poet-musician Daevid Allen of the Gong band, which original idea is, as he says, “an international ideological / spiritual / aesthetic communications network for artists of all kinds…. who share the common vision of warm hearted, pan-stylistic, inclusive art forms which serve the drive towards conscious evolution”.
The flowering of Invisible Opera Bands in the UK, Australia and Brazil has created the possibility of a new kind of musical collective – an international umbrella group consisting of several bands, with shared or compatible songs and music, developing and promoting themselves simultaneously in different world centres.
THE INVISIBLE OPERA COMPANY OF TIBET first manifested as a musical outfit in 1986 in a banana shed somewhere in the Australian Rainforest under the leadership of Daevid ALLEN and Ruz HIBBS
There was a sound that came through the early GONG gigs, particularly during the spacey glissando sections that sounded like angels singing, they called this ‘The Invisible Opera Company of Tibet’. In the ’80’s Daevid used this concept to bind together a group of flexible personnel, chosen for their ability to channel a quality of music beyond their own normal capabilities. The performances became ritual ceremonies for integrating the group awareness through a wide range of acoustic and metaphysical technologies.
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Fabio Golfetti
guitars / synthesizers
May East
tibetan bells / tibetan bowl
Renato Mello
also sax (5)
Recorded and mixed at Autumn Studio, São Paulo
between June 1990 and January 1991
Art & design, Invisível
Photo by Angelo Pastorello