A touching, agile voice intwined with lines of an oud floating atop a tissue woven at times tightely, at times loosely by bass and percussion – this is ab3ad. Rooted in classical Arab music the three musicians Wael Sami Elkholy, Emre Aydin and Titus Bellwald elegantly interweave twigs branching towards jazz, pop, contemporary classical music and even ambient into the shapes that their music evokes. Wael's voice seamlessly bridges from sonorous depths to light airy heights, at times driven on by bass and countless colours of percussion, at times opposing them like vigorous opponents. Thereby ab3ad creates a hauntingly intense and deeply spiritual music whose charm is hard to resist.