Asha & Yloush ~ If I could turn back the hands of time (studio edition)

Asha & Yloush sing R. Kelly’s ‘If I could turn back the hands of time’. This track will be on Asha’s forthcoming album "God Gave Us Flowers."

In Budapest are many of artists… painters, musicians, dancers, actors and so on.

One day last month, scrolling down on Facebook, I saw by chance a home-made video from a woman who filmed herself singing her own song, acapella… on her sofa! And boy, was she good! Her name was Székely Ilus (Yloush for short!) So I contacted her to offer my admiration. We quickly became artistic friends with much in common, in outlook and expression.

I am currently recording two albums, one an album of new compositions called “Knights & Angels”, and the other a third volume of cover songs called “The Mother, the Lover, the Healer & the Muse”. So, as Yloush’s powerful, passionate vocals would grace any album, I asked her if she’d care to sing.

Within a week we had recorded four new tracks, two on each album, and a week later we had also begun to film them, too. The film here was made as we rehearsed and recorded this track.

We both have day-jobs, and face the struggles all artists traditionally face in trying to find ways to manifest our creativity… there’s no shortage of inspiration, it’s the time and money that needs careful handling! But this collaboration has a great momentum… one idea leads to another, and a flow and rhythm is developing, as one door after another seems to open. As if the choreography of this collaboration is approved of by the Gods of Music!

There is a meaning behind it, as with Sufi poetry... the love of God. I sing of Love, the Lover & the Beloved. So it has two levels; the mundane level where one imagines a song to a lost lover, and the higher level where... in this case... that lost lover is God. I sing: "If only I'd been awake and known You before, I'd have done anything for You!"