Three cultures, three religions, three poems. The Song of Songs is the focus of Vol. 1, Vol. 2 deals with The Flowing Light of the Godhead by Mechthild von Magdeburg, Divine Love completes the trilogy Poem of a Cell. Vol. 3 transforms theses to Rabi'a from Basra into sounds and music. Rabi'a of Basra lives around 714 and 801 and is the legendary Islamic mystic who is considered one of the first Sufis. She is the first to interpret the doctrine of Divine Love: "All love aims at the essence of unity. The highest love aims at eternal unity. I seek my lover, not his splendour of gifts, not visions, wonders and power over the material world". The singer Saada Nassor from the strongly Islamic influenced Zanzibar interprets the magic and mysticism of Rabi'a of Basra in a duet with the Kanun player Rajab Suleiman. In Fumio Yasuda's Elternal Love, the opening composition of the album, the longing for unity with the divine resounds. Yasuda also deals with one of the greatest tragedies of our time and writes for the orchestra Forma Antiqva Battle over Aleppo. He also wrote arrangements of Gabriel Faur?'s Requiem. Pie Jesu sings Fanny Winter with the Kettwiger Bach Ensemble and Forma Antiqva. The poem of a cell is about desire and contempt, Longing and disgust, violence and mildness, destruction and redemption, Separation and union, innocence and guilt, Love and oppression, woman and man.
