The radically different cadence of the texts by SAID, the Iranian poet and writer* living in exile in Germany, which marries spirituality, pleasure, protest, and doubt, has profoundly moved and shaken the trumpet player and composer Matthias Spillmann. The Lied cycle into which he translates the "psalms" to music, together with the singer Tobias Christl and his MATS-UP band, is in itself quite daring.By the free spirit of jazz, the texts are catapulted into the here and now. The musicians copiously celebrate the magic of the tunes never once shirking musical experiments or unbridled energy. The resulting music challenges by its themes, exceeding many of the listener's expectations, but aim directly at the core of our hearts by its very own beauty of sound.* The poet and writer SAID, born in Teheran in 1947, has been living in Munich since 1968.