Rumi's Truth By Gary Schmidt

 

Rumi's Truth

By

Gary Schmidt

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

Whilst solo piano certainly seems to be on the ascendency again, a new form of piano beauty is emerging from the tiny worthless micro culture of the genre, it is one that may one day be called philosophical piano, and within its confines lies some of the most beautiful and tender tones you would ever wish to hear, Gary Schmidt’s latest single is an example of such a thoughtful beauty and called Rumi’s Truth.

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, or simply Rumi, was a 13th-century poet; his works spanned some of the most inspirational works of their time and still do to this day, what’s interesting about Rumi his usage of many languages, including our native language here in Cyprus, by using Greek and Turkish words sporadically, and of course his native language of his mother tongue being Persian, this gave him that beautiful fluency of literal brilliance.

Here Schmidt achieves the same, with one of the most handsome compositions of solo piano you would ever wish to find, the constant repeating motif creates a sensitive onward progression, whilst the melodic tone manifested a delicious eastern element within its musical construct.

Gary Schmidt is without doubt a pianist of stunning quality in many forms of piano music, but I believe here he may have just produced his most meditative creation yet, I adore this new single from him, which is why I am predicting a massive chart hit for the artist and for Rumi's Truth, philosophical piano in motion can be found here in a plethora of delightful tones, a magical release indeed.