“A hypnotic work commemorating Halabjah, a Kurdish village annihilated by Saddam Hussein, the kamancheh” (PNA).…
Posts Tagged ‘Music’
The Voice of Komitas Vartapet
March 9th, 2008 by piling in Culture
Komitas Vartapet, aka Soghomon Soghomonyan, borned on September 26th 1869 in the Ottoman city of Kütahya. His father was a shoe-maker, but composed songs and …
Voices of Kurdistan : Ali Merdan
November 6th, 2007 by piling in Culture, South Kurdistan
Ali Merdan borned in 1904 in Kirkuk, where he studied at first in a sufi khanqah, learning to recitate the Coran and …
Folk Music of Iran : Fars and Luristan
October 14th, 2007 by piling in Culture, East Kurdistan
Ibn Hawqal, on Xth century, described Luristan and Fars as the main settling region of Kurds, Lurs and Beluches, which he …
Shahram Nazeri awarded by France
September 29th, 2007 by piling in Culture, East Kurdistan
Today, at the Théâtre de la Ville of Paris, Shahram Nazeri gives a concert with Daryush Talai. At this occasion he wil receive in public …
Nizamettin Ariç
September 29th, 2007 by piling in Culture, North Kurdistan
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Borned in 1956 in Agrî, he has to move in his youth, with his family, to Ankara for their poor economical …
The Lost Kurdish song was found !
June 22nd, 2007 by Dyaoko in Culture, East KurdistanThe swedish radio has a big archive, more than 1 million CDs and Tapes, and the archive buoliding is as big as 12 killometers place …
Keyhan Kalhur
February 13th, 2007 by piling in Culture, East Kurdistan
Borned in 1963 in Tehran, Keyhan Kalhor is issued from a Kurdish family of Kirmanshan. He is a compositeur and a famous and wonderful player
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Ayse San
February 5th, 2007 by piling in Culture, North Kurdistan, Uncategorized
Ayse San was one of the greatest Kurdish dengbêj. She borned in 1938 in Amid and died in 1996 in Izmir. I translate here the …