Path of Love
Details
| Marwan Abado | Oud, Gesang |
| Paul Gulda | Harpsichord |
| Released: | Dezember 2015 |
| To order: | Gramola Vienna |
Trills without Frills
Where there is a relationship, by sheer necessity there needs to be space. If there was no room between those that relate, the relationship would have to end, having no place to thrive in.
Not only do Marwan Abado and Paul Gulda leave room for each other, they actually explore new musical rooms in concert together. Those of us who witnessed one of these live sessions can now take one home to enjoy it again: a relation-ship in full sail.
The Palestinian living in Vienna since 1985, and Vienna-born Paul. Paul and his pal from Palestine. There is something in the sound of these words, and the two of them go for this kind of thing, rhymes, alliteration, allusions, double meanings: „Bach to Beirut“- sounds almost „Back to Beirut“, however this return back is enacted in soul and spirit only: there is never a return to the same place. The place has changed since, and so have we.
Oud and harpsichord, this combination had a predecessor in the 1970ies, when Friedrich, Pauls´s father (on Clavichord) teamed up with the legendary Mounir Bashir from Iraq, a figurehead of arabic music and culture in the 20th century.
While these two celebrated the joys of spontaneous meeting and improvisational banter, Marwan and Paul have chosen their path much more carefully. It leads from the tended gardens of new compositions, onward through the lush scenery of wandering dunes, tenderly defined and fenced in by the music of J.S. Bach that crops up inbetween.
Marwan and Paul have discovered some new seedlings and plant them right into Bachs´s well-tempered orchard, throwing a handful of desert sand on top of it that turns to fertile ground for further flowering.
