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Majn​ú​n

by Joel In Real Life

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Revealer 03:39
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Lamp 04:08
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Clay Of Love 05:37
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Yá Bahá 03:34
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Majnún is being released today during the last day of 12-day period Bahá'ís call Riḍván, known as The Most Great Festival. This eight song collection of original devotional music is a re-issue of songs from two previous EPs, and includes three songs specifically written to celebrate the joyous Riḍván occasion (Revealer, Night In The Garden, and Divine Springtime).

From "The Seven Valleys" by Bahá'u'lláh:

There once was a lover who had sighed for long years in separation from his beloved, and wasted in the fires of remoteness. From the rule of love, his heart was empty of patience, and his body weary of his spirit; he reckoned life without her as a mockery, and time consumed him away. How many a day he found no rest in longing for her; how many a night the pain of her kept him from sleep; his body was worn to a sigh, his heart's wound had turned him to a cry of sorrow. He had given a thousand lives for one taste of the cup of her presence, but it availed him not. The doctors knew no cure for him, and companions avoided his company; yea, physicians have no medicine for one sick of love, unless the favor of the beloved one deliver him.

At last, the tree of his longing yielded the fruit of despair, and the fire of his hope fell to ashes. Then one night he could live no more, and he went out of his house and made for the marketplace. On a sudden, a watchman followed after him. He broke into a run, with the watchman following; then other watchmen came together, and barred every passage to the weary one. And the wretched one cried from his heart, and ran here and there, and moaned to himself: “Surely this watchman is ‘Izrá’íl, my angel of death, following so fast upon me; or he is a tyrant of men, seeking to harm me.” His feet carried him on, the one bleeding with the arrow of love, and his heart lamented. Then he came to a garden wall, and with untold pain he scaled it, for it proved very high; and forgetting his life, he threw himself down to the garden.

And there he beheld his beloved with a lamp in her hand, searching for a ring she had lost. When the heart-surrendered lover looked on his ravishing love, he drew a great breath and raised up his hands in prayer, crying: “O God! Give Thou glory to the watchman, and riches and long life. For the watchman was Gabriel, guiding this poor one; or he was Isráfíl, bringing life to this wretched one!”

credits

released May 1, 2020

Joel Tamas: Vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, drum programming
MJ Cyr: Vocals
Bruno Randimbiarinson: Vocals
Chimwemwe Miller: Vocals
Dergham Aqiqi: Vocals
Marie-Claire Saindon: Violin, viola
Jasmine Michel: Violin
Aaron Ferrera: Drums & Percussion
Rob Riendeau: Bass

All music by Joel Tamas except "Yá Bahá," written by Hooper Dunbar
All lyrics are from Bahá'í'i Scripture
Produced by Joel Tamas
Mixed & Mastered by Andrew Tokuda

Cover art by Joe Paczkowski

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Joel In Real Life Mississippi Mills, Ontario

Ambient, world, spiritual music with enough edge to keep it off the speakers in supermarkets and elevators.

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