Oasis of Now
for unattended classical guitar, electric guitar, and contrabass
Naeim Rahmani, classical guitar
Jeff Bowen, electric guitar
Abbey Blackwell, double bass
This piece can be considered in two distinct ways:
A meditation on the following lines from Sohrab Sepehri’s poem that carries the same title:
“if you are coming to me / approach gently, softly, lest you crack / the fragile china of my solitude”
A meditation on this “situation”: “Musicians have departed to build new lives, leaving their instruments behind. The doctors have done the same, as the teachers, engineers, artists… After drying up all the life-giving flows in this land, what remains to us are the distant echoes of their streams”