Sunday, January 10, 2010

Allah=Olé?

Of course MeWithoutYou is stirring up controversy (No surprise, see "I didn't buy cigarettes at Berean, but I did find this.."), closing concerts with lyrics praising Allah.
So much of their concert experiences, like this filmed at Cornerstone, include interactive, Sufi-like, Dhikr-ish dancing and singing.

Check this:

The arrival of the Duende always presupposes a radical change in all the forms as they existed on the old plane. It gives a sense of refreshment unknown until then, together with that quality of the just-opening rose, of the miraculous, which comes and instils an almost religious transport.

In all Arabian music, in the dances, songs, elegies of Arabia, the coming of the Duende is greeted by fervent outcries of Allah! Allah! God! God!, so close to the Olé" Olé! of our bull rings that who is to say they are not actually the same; and in all the songs of southern Spain the appearance of the Duende is followed by heartfelt exclamations of God alive! - profound, human tender, the cry of communion with God through the medium of the five senses and the grace of the Duende that stirs the voice and the body of the dancer - a flight from this world, both real and poetic, pure as Pedro de Roja's over the seven gardens (that most curious poet of the seventeenth century), or Juan Calimacho's on the tremulous ladder of tears.

-Lorca



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