Different musical forms but the same essential truth
He sees a divine inspiration which comes to humanity from time to time in different forms which are in harmony with the culture of a certain people at a certain time. Different forms but the same essential truth. Those words describe the Sufi master and musician Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927). The theme of different cultural forms but the same essential truth suffuses a new CD that finds the mystical intoxication of Sufism in the music of Dowland and other Renaissance composers, as well as in contemporary Middle Eastern and European music. Divine Madness: Souls in Exile brings together mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson , lutenist Sofie Vanden Eynde , and on oud and vocals Moneim Adwan who is seen above - video sample here . Released on the independent Belgian label Cypres Records , the CD explores how music has the universal power to unsettle the soul; a thesis that also provides the subtext of Lutz Kirchhof's recently featured Lute music for Witches and Alchemists . Divine Madnes