ABSTRACT
Entirely in accordance with the idiom surrounding the concept of spirituality, the first word of the album’s title is ‘journey,’ implying ‘traveling,’ ‘being in transit,’ leaving the proper place of dwelling: from here to there, from the familiar to the unfamiliar. Abou-Khalil and Kühn’s journey is not a safe trip, completely organized and visiting only renown places, but an expedition to undiscovered grounds; a journey, actually, with an unknown destination. (The spiritual journey is “a selfimposed exile from the solidity of things,” De Certeau [1992: 105] writes.)
The intended goal, however, seems to crystallize in the second part of the title: a journey ‘to the center.’ Ah, so this will prove to be, after all, a quest for essence, an unchangeable and stable core. It may be a tough journey, but the reward will be high: a place in the center, knowable to itself, a powerful middle or top from which everything disseminates and is controlled, a place wherefrom contradictions are solved and oppositions dissolve. In Derridaen terms: a transcendental signified.
