About This Song
About "Abwoon (Our Father)" by Lisa Gerrard
The Lord's Prayer becomes a lament from another century. Gerrard intones 'Abwoon' with the gravity of a mourner and the warmth of a mother, Aramaic syllables floating over sparse, ancient instrumentation. It is devotional music stripped of dogmaβcalm on the surface, a tectonic ache beneath.