Mournful, nostalgic, deeply emotional

Songs of Longing and Exile

Pieces about distance, separation, and the long road home.

Tracks

5 tracks

Duration

~30 minutes

Kurdish folk music has a particular vocabulary for exile — the wind as messenger, the mountain as protector, the flower as memory of who is no longer here. This playlist gathers pieces that speak in that vocabulary. Listen when you're ready for it.

Tracks

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