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Angel and Amartithi Song Live in India 1994 (remastered cassette)

by The Baba Lovers

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This track was recorded out front at the Meher Pilgrim Centre, Meherabad in August 1994. A double novelty in the Baba Lovers bandcamp collection as this double track includes a double exception to our general rule:

1. A ghazal they co-wrote but without Gaz performing anything on it. (Angel)
2. A song they perform together whose lyrics were NOT written by Gaz.

'Angel' is the Baba Lovers' first collaboration as composers - (they didn't collaborate as performers for 22 years after this, though they shared several stages in India in August 1994.) An updated version of the lyric may be found in garethcalway.blogspot.com/2016/01/6-degrees-of-separation-7-degrees-of.html but this simple heart song remains a favourite, if only because it was our first. Here is its original listing online in 1999.

The man I love is an angel, his golden wrist like a rose,
His body held in a soft flame of stillness, freed in a pose.

The man I love is an angel, unfastened hair like a tide,
His fingers fly out of time's rut: and touch my heart as it blows.

The man I love is an angel, his mouth a kiss that won't stop;
His ears in whispering curls hear what open lovers propose.

The man I love is an angel, his neck is softer than sky;
He turns to me like a planet, and everything else explodes.

O hart, this love is a rare draught, you're lost and that's why you win,
You're stripped of even your held breath, and kiss what God alone knows.

"Angel" published in "Britain's Dreaming" (ISBN 1872914241) copyright © Gareth Calway 1998 reprinted by kind permission of Frontier Publishing. "Angel" put to music and sung by Gabriella Tal on her CD "Graceful and Magnificent" (1999).


On 2, Gabriella's tremendous Amartithi Song, with its affectingly helpless "All powerful and Almighty" parallelism reminiscent of the Psalms and the desperate love-reckless "use whatever means you must employ," we hear the heart's prayer, the real thing. "Teach me to fashion my life to your design" is not a line God could ignore. (Thank God that Gabriella had this one to herself!) This masterpiece of longing and devotion pierced Gaz's heart like an arrow on first hearing in India in 1994 and remains his favourite Gabriella song, including the many they've now written together.

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released January 31, 2019
Gabriella Tal - guitar and lead vocal (Angel and Amartithi Song)
Two friends - harmony vocals (Angel and Amartithi Song)
Gaz Calway- backing vocal, drums (Amartithi Song only)
Angel composed ©1994 by Calway-Tal (Grok Music)
Amartithi Song composed by Gabriella Tal
Picture shows Gabriella outside Baba's Rahuri Cabin.

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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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