It is no coincidence that both Gábor Gadó and Laurent Blondiau received the Bobby Jaspar prize of Académie du Jazz honouring the best Europan musician each year, but the kinship of the two artists runs a lot deeper than that. Blondiau is the founder of one of Belgium’s most creative musical outlets, Mâäk’s Spirit, while Gábor Gadó is one of the central figures of new Hungarian jazz. Their collaboration started back in 2004 in the international (or to be more precise: supranational) formation called Unit, and both of them have been fervently seeking new forms of musical expression ever since. Their paths crossed again this year: together, they look for connections between music and spirituality on their new duo album Veil and Quintessence, soon to be released by BMC Records. Prayer, meditation, vigil and contemplation all blend into a seamless stream of music that surpasses the contradictory temptations of tonality and modality so that the listener may, for some fleeting moments at least, lift the veil and see.