Rahim Alhaj Photo: RNZ - photo by Cole Eastham-Farrelly
This week, two more live sessions recorded at the Plymouth Hotel in New Plymouth.
The first, Kiya Tabassian, an Iranian musician who plays the Setar, a four-stringed Persian long-necked lute, accompanied by the 21-stringed West African Kora played by the Senegalese griot Ablaye Cissoko.
Later in the programme, another live session and interview with Iraqi-born Oud player Rahim Alhaj, an extraordinary musician who was forced to flee Iraq and is now an American citizen living in New Mexico.
Music Details
Constantinople
Lountang
Kiya Tabassian and Ablaye Cissoko
Jardins migrateurs
Ma Case
Kiya Tabassian and Ablaye Cissoko
Poisson Au Fond de L’ocean
Kiya Tabassian and Ablaye Cissoko
RNZ live recording
RNZ recording
Kiya Tabassian and Ablaye Cissoko
Departure
Kiya Tabassian and Ablaye Cissoko
RNZ live recording
RNZ recording
Rahim Alhaj
Dream
Rahim Alhaj
RNZ live recording
RNZ recording
Rahim Alhaj
Eastern Love
Rahim Alhaj
RNZ recording
RNZ recording
Rahim Alhaj
Letter 4. The Last Time We Will Fly birds
Rahim Alhaj
Letters from Iraq: Oud and String Quintet
Smithsonian Folkways
