ossory
Baghdad, founded as Madinat as-Salam, the City of Peace, and now a city that buys its electricity by the ampere: Karkh and Rusafa, the fruit stalls and the book stalls, one bridge nobody sings past, and a glass of tea that is always available.
Ten Amperes City Of Peace
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Style
Fast Iraqi maqam and chalghi ensemble at 142 BPM in 4/4 with 6/8 hemiola turnarounds — santur, joza spike fiddle, oud, ney and deep dumbek, riq and daff percussion — with a male and female lead trading heavily Iraqi-Arabic-accented English line by line in call and response, unison group vocals.