Asha ~ Unseen

Asha (aka Asher Quinn & Asha Elijah) sings 'Unseen' from his album "Calvary Hill." CD & download available here ~ http://ashaquinn.com/calvaryhill.htm

I filmed for this in Budapest with friends. Susana G de Querós plays the electric guitar on film as I sing, and pianist Tamás Szõrényi caretook the camerawork. We filmed at Susana's flat in Budapest (Susana is a Spaniard in Hungary) and we all three improvised after the filming. Susana and Tamás are an item!

This film-song has layers. It's a love-song personal to me; it's a counterpoint to the developing love between Susana and Tamás; it's a ballad of lost love, and above all it's a spiritual song about seeing the unseen world in a loved one. It's about being able to see the eternal face of the beloved in the ordinary; the truth behind the apparent; God in the mortal; something a lover can ignite in your heart.

A Sufi saint, Hazrat Inayat Khan writes this:

"Sincere courtship is in itself a religion.

Surely no religion can teach more than love can.

When the beloved becomes so much the centre of life that the lover begins to lose his selfishness through thought for her; when he is so impressed by her beauty that no other beauty, no matter how great, can make him falter in his allegiance to her; when for her sake he becomes gentle and considerate; when he confesses to her what he would not have any one else on earth know; when his desires turn towards honesty and sincerity in all things, through his honesty and sincerity in love, is there not then something in his life greater than the religion that is merely taught?

Has he not himself received a direct inspiration from heaven above? A lover thus inspired looks forward with the same hope to his future life with the beloved that the pious do to life in the hereafter.

The meeting between two such lovers is nothing less than a divine communion, since God who is love, and was asleep in their hearts, is now awakened within them.”

My idea to film with Susana and Tamás was intuitive. I had an image in mind of one of Budapest's grand old, atmospheric apartments, with resident Bohemians, so I simply enquired of Tamás (who I kept meeting by chance on a bus) if he knew of anyone with an electric guitar and a Bohemian flat! "Yes," he chirped! "My girl-friend!"

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