Uwe David

Born in 1960 I am playing accordion almost continuously from the age of 7 - as a pupil, on Christmas occasions, as a member of the folk dance group and choir of my former school, and of course for myself. My music teacher in school times was a great fan of Israel and had influence on many people with his enthusiasm for music and arts in general. His wife was very much dedicated to the dance group, and once in a while there was a need for an accordion player. Still many of their former students draw on the things they had learned there.

Well, almost 35 years passed since that, and especially my last years were influenced by journeys to India and some important encounters - and the wish not to play only songs of others emerged, too. So some own creations came into being.

The outcome of all this I would like to share with both an appreciated (and appreciating) audience and possible performers who - hopefully - will have as much joy with it. The instrument is still a Lucia III my parents bought for me at the age of 12.

If you like you may visit my YouTube-Site too, containing some other things than music for accordion.

Compositions

Covers of traditional pieces

Bhajans and Aartis

Not to be mixed up with Russian Bayan!

In almost every culture different forms of music are used for worshipping the Divine. Amongst other things, in Hinduistic influenced cultures Bhajans and Aartis were developed. Both are forms of songs in which lyrics in compliment to the Divine are set to music with mostly easy to grasp melodies. Though Bhajans have more of the character of religious folk songs Aartis are both a special ceremony within a Pooja as well as special forms of songs. More Information you’ll get on Wikipedia’s sites for Aarti, Bhajan, and Pooja.

The pieces from India mostly are accompanied by instruments like tabla and the Indian harmonium. The latter instrument, also played sitting on the ground, is very similar to accordion concerning the way of sound generation, playing, and in sounding. However, bass is added which is not applied to the harmonium and provides an own character to the interpretation on accordion.

Though the roots of many of the introduced pieces, superficially seen, are assigned to a special religion or culture I don’t want to highlight one of them. In contrary by assembling presented pieces I would like to emphasize that religion lastly has to be a universal enterprise.

Unfortunately one cannot go into details on this occasion for this would break the mold of this site. But everybody who likes can find out for himself what is to be understood by a universal religion. For this I present three links to records of a public program of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi who is one of, or better to say, is the spiritual personality of our time. By the meditation introduced one can get ones spiritual Self-Realization and answers to fundamental questions of life as well.

Self Realization • Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

If you have any questions please let me know via: u_david (at) web.de