'' My Sunset-Land ROJAVA'' is the fifth solo album of the Kurdish

Kamancheh The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) ( fa, کمانچه, az, kamança, hy, Քամանչա, ku, کەمانچە ,kemançe) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, an ...

player Shahriyar Jamshidi. This self-published project released in hard-copy and digital formats. ''My Sunset-Land ROJAVA'' is a full-length instrumental album for Kamancheh consists of nine tracks - two composed music and seven improvisation music, based on micro-tonal

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from Kurdish region. ''My Sunset-Land ROJAVA'' highlights the roles of women in revolutionary resistances in the western Kurdistan

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in recent years; the album is dedicated to women of Kurdistan who lost their life to free Rojava. The song ''Viyan'' is in memory of the Kurdish singer

Viyan Peyman Viyan Peyman (originally Gülistan Tali Cinganlo) was a Kurdish singer and fighter with the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) who was killed fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria in 2015. Cinganlo was from the town of Mak ...

and track nine ''Tears Of Shingal'' commemorates the

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where hundreds of innocent people were sacrificed by

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Track listing

Personal

* Shahriyar Jamshidi - Composition and Kamancheh * L. Stuart Young - Recording & Mixing * Fedge - Mastering * Zehra Doğan – Artwork * Jef Rabillon - Photographer * Roxana Khoshravesh – Layout * HÎra Çavken & Mitchell Fillion - Video

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