heres a beautiful read about Khyam Allami: In his teenage years, Allami rejected his original Iraqi background. He abandoned his former instruments, stopped speaking Arabic and immersed himself in Western rock… ...A drastic change in Allami’s musical career was precipitated by the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Despite never having been to Iraq himself (he would later describe it as a land I had never seen, air I have never breathed, people I hardly knew) Allami found that the invasion forced him to reappraise and revive his own cultural roots. Pained and shaken by events (Iraq burned and I couldnt do a single thing about it) he opted to demonstrate solidarity by making a serious attempt to take up our playing and began studies with the London-based Iraqi ud maestro Ehsan Emam. In March 2004 Allami bought his own oud and decided to dedicate his life to the instrument and to its music… _/\_
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:19:02 +0000
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