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Dengbej Kazo was born in 1950 in Van and now lives near Istanbul. He often gives concerts performing both popular Kurdish songs and his own compositions. He also improvises in keeping with the tradition of the dengbej (travelling Kurdish singers and storytellers). In 1960 the Turkish government officially banned the practice...

The programme of the concert is composed of traditional Armenian liturgical chants in their modal and monophonic setting accompanied by drone. The repertoire comprises chants of different genres from the Offices and the Divine Liturgy. Most of the songs are classified in an oktoechos (eight modes) system, as in many other...

Originally, the piece was intended as a séance in which it is not us calling the departed, but the spirits of the dead calling to have a trace of the past revealed, made visible, unearthed. The title, _Armine, Sister_, recalls the first two words of a letter with no clear address,...