{"product_id":"mohammad-syfkhan-i-am-kurdish","title":"Mohammad Syfkhan - I am Kurdish","description":"\u003cp\u003eMohammad Syfkhan is a Kurdish\/Syrian Singer and Bouzouki player. He began playing music in 1980 while he was in college studying\n\u003cbr\u003enursing. When he got his degree in 1983, Mohammad moved to the city of Raqqa, Syria where he began working as a professional\n\u003cbr\u003esinger and started his own band, The Al-Rabie Band which played concerts, parties, weddings and festivals all over Syria. The Al-\n\u003cbr\u003eRabie Band were a much sought-after group. Their live sets included Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish and some Western songs as well as\n\u003cbr\u003eMohammad’s own original material. Mohammad continued to play with his band while also working as a surgical nurse until the war\n\u003cbr\u003ebroke out in 2011. This unfortunately brought tragedy to Mohammad’s family when one of his sons was killed by Isis thus threatening\n\u003cbr\u003ethe lives of the rest of his family. His family had no choice but to leave their home and seek safety in Europe. Three of Mohammad’s\n\u003cbr\u003esons were resettled in Germany while Mohammad, his young daughter and wife were taken in by Ireland. Mohammad has spoken at\n\u003cbr\u003elength of his confusion and despair with fundamentalists and how their message is a far cry from the teachings of love and\n\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding that he considers the true message of Islam. Since arriving in Ireland, Mohammad has used the language of music to\n\u003cbr\u003eintegrate into the local community by playing at private parties and concerts. He regularly plays at weddings and events for the Kurdish\n\u003cbr\u003eand Syrian communities all over Ireland and in Germany. He has collaborated with such Irish artists as Martin Hayes, Cormac Begley,\n\u003cbr\u003eEimear Reidy, Cathal Roche and Vincent Woods. In 2023 he opened for Lankum at the Cork Opera House and received huge\n\u003cbr\u003eapplause from the packed out room. Mohammad’s own brand of ecstatic music takes elements from Middle Eastern and North African\n\u003cbr\u003emusic to create an atmosphere of joy, love and happiness. The songs on ‘I am Kurdish’ have been recorded and mixed with the view to\n\u003cbr\u003emake them to suitable for listening to at a small get together or to be played on a big rig at night clubs. Either way, it is a record that will\n\u003cbr\u003emake people dance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nyahh Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55169317863798,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/6450\/6005\/files\/iamkurdish.webp?v=1737463779","url":"https:\/\/www.stickyblacktarmac.com\/products\/mohammad-syfkhan-i-am-kurdish","provider":"Sticky Black Tarmac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}