A "story of 'fixed' and 'open' things" unfolds in Liza Lim's work "Tongue of the Invisible" on the new CD of Edition Musikfabrik. Of Chinese descent, the Australia-born composer was inspired by the lyric poetry of the Sufi poet Hafiz. She says: "Hafiz's verses are unbelievably ecstatic and intimate, yet also very fleeting – the way in which he mixes and shifts levels of meaning gives rise to complex and indeterminable frames of mind in oneself."
