Asha & Yloush ~ If I could turn back the hands of time (Studio edition) HD

Asha & Yloush (Asher Quinn & Székely Ilus) sing R. Kelly’s ‘If I could turn back the hands of time’ at Origo Studios, Budapest, with Cserny Kálmán as the sound engineer. This track will be on Asha’s forthcoming third volume of cover versions “The Mother, the Lover, the Healer & the Muse”. No CD or download is available quite yet. Here in Budapest I live amongst a kindred community of spiritually-minded people, many of whom are very talented artists… painters, musicians, dancers, actors and so on. One day last month, scrolling down on Facebook, I saw by chance a home-made video from a woman within this group who filmed herself singing her own song, acapella… on her sofa! And boy, was she good! Her name was Székely Ilus (Yloush for short!) So I contacted her to offer my congratulations, only to find that not only are we both creative, but we are also neighbours in the city centre. She lives just a couple of streets away in Nyugati, near the Danube. So we met and quickly became artistic friends with much in common, in outlook and expression. I am recording two albums at nearby Origo Studios just now, (with Cserny Kálmán engineering the sound)… one an album of new compositions called “Knights & Angels”, and the other a third volume of cover songs called “The Mother, the Lover, the Healer & the Muse”. So, as Yloush’s powerful, passionate vocals would grace any album, I asked her if she’d care to sing. Within a week we had recorded four new tracks, two on each album, and a week later we had also begun to film them, too. The film here was made as we rehearsed and recorded this track. We’ve also been to see other Hungarian artists together, such as Hungarikum Együttes and Misztrál… traditional Hungarian folk minstrels for the modern age… and are having a most productive cultural exchange! This is Facebook at its finest, bringing people together! We hang out at the cute and cosy Bio Cafe in Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út, opposite the western railway station (www.facebook.com/BIO-CAFÉ-Piszke), just round the corner; a perfect haunt for hungry artists! Visiting the City of Kings, Székesfehérvár, to see Hungarikum Együttes perform, we also filmed there for a couple of tracks. Just a month ago we did not know of each other, but much has manifested creatively very quickly! We both have day-jobs, and face the struggles all artists traditionally face in trying to find ways to manifest our creativity… there’s no shortage of inspiration, it’s the time and money that needs careful handling! But this collaboration has a great momentum… one idea leads to another, and a flow and rhythm is developing, as one door after another seems to open. As if the choreography of this collaboration is approved of by the Gods of Music! I took a decision years ago to make music happen come what may, despite all the financial risks… because it feels like my passion; my mission. Once I did that, I found myself in the flow of opportunity that has now lasted thirty years, and is actually i