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Heavenly Moon (single)

by The Baba Lovers

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"My heart sought … a pearl beyond the shell of existence and time....." (Hafiz) I catch your eye out of space-time, a breathless poise out of mind; A pearl I lost and have long sought, but never dreamed I could find. "My heart sought … a pearl beyond the shell of existence and time....." I dance with you in my mind’s eye, and pour a rose for your mouth, Or sip your kiss at a drunk's bar where vision comes to the blind. "My heart sought … a pearl beyond the shell of existence and time....." This love that draws me is so true, I lose my grip on the false: It calls my heart from a jungle where lovers hunt but don’t find. "My heart sought … a pearl beyond the shell of existence and time....." This love that draws me is so true, my heart is aching to steal A pearl for you from my life's shell, a nightingale from the wind. "My heart sought … a pearl beyond the shell of existence and time....." This love that draws me is so true, a heavenly moon in June And bunch of red roses comes calling; I want to leave me behind.
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spoken intro: My days are lost in not doing the doing I still want to do. If love could be my un-doing, my 'not' being love could unwind. O love, your morning is so bright, 'I love you' loses its 'I' And 'you' in long nights of longing, my blazed Eye leading the blind... rap: Faith, give this Who-Man, this Whither from Maybe, inspiration. Love’s ailing craft tardis-drones in its base like a dying swan “Earth has been Wasted,” the Wounded King twitters, “the Grail removed Deep into Inner Space, angels retreating from mass destruction.” “Find me the Grail and the Earth will be Saved,” the Grail Maiden sighs, Dying, “and I’ll be your May Queen forever.” “All else is vacuum.” Death croaks my Name: he’ll engrave it in Hell’s grinning Gate, DEATH THE FINAL FRONTIER. “But Love is the I’s uncreation.” "Ego’s the aggregate of ages of ignorant action Dying to Love," tweets a Love that evolves Involution. “Who? who are you?” jabs your talon…“I’m Nothing, without loving You. All I am’s what I do and can’t undo to unbecome.” Cloaking daggers, my spying cuck-Who’s little ‘I’ is so Deep under cover his original mission’s forgotten. Whistles blow, “Dance off your seven-veils in a do-or-die underworld Thrilling romance of divinest Whodunnit detection.” “Who!!! Who!!!” as platforms are lashed into bubbles by Biblical Rain, “Find Nirvana from Auschwitz!!!” You Whooot through the station.

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From The Baba Lovers' forthcoming album of ghazals (Persian love lyrics), - "6 Degrees of Separation; 7 Degrees of Love" (to be released 31 January) - this single shows the two performers excitingly different musical approaches to the ghazal form.

The album is an ambitious one, attempting to take the listener "around Creation in 80 minutes." Starting on an Indian hilltop, it travels under the Earth - plumbing the depths of our sub-humanity - to Hell and out the other side to Eden and then climbs through Seven Enchanting Heavens, each more loving than the last.

The motive force for the entire journey is love. And the initial impetus is provided by longing.

On "Heavenly Moon" American singer songwriter Gabriella Tal makes an enchanting chorus of master poet Hafiz's couplet (My heart sought a pearl beyond the shell of existence and time) while drawing every last drop of beauty and longing from Gaz's lovestruck verses. It is testament to the glory of the ghazal form that the theme of the whole album - the story and purpose of Creation and the soul's journey home - can be made to pluck the heart-strings as a lovely pop song.

On "Faith Give This Who Man" poet Gaz Calway opts to rap his ghazal over an insistent beat - the obsessive fret of the soul to get home - setting out the same story in his very different way. On other tracks of the album, when his feel for the music of words is not injecting percussion or vocally supporting Gabriella's soaring voice, Gaz will counterpoint Gabriella's songs with dramatic storytelling, mystical chanting and other adventures in sound.

If the album is a happy blend of these two artists' very different crafts and personalities, this single may be said to demonstrate the two separate threads of their shared performance concept.

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released January 31, 2019

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The Baba Lovers England, UK

The Baba Lovers are an Atlantic-transcending duo: English poet Gareth Calway and American singer-songwriter Gabriella Tal. The Beloved is Avatar Meher Baba, whose favourite poet was Hafiz and whose favourite poetic form the ghazal (a Persian love lyric). We met in India at the Meher Pilgrim Centre in Ahmednagar in 1994 and wrote a couple of songs. We reconnected online in 2016 and wrote an album. ... more

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