Aziz Tamoyan, Kalash Tossouni, Amar Ozmanyan: His “kilame ser” or “words about,” addressed the Sinjar massacre in 2014, when 50,000 Yezidis, fled to the mountains of Iraq to escape the Islamic State.
His strong-throated lament, underscored by an oboe and a small amplifier which produced a droning baseline, rose up into the 80-foot vault of the Armory like fire turning softly to smoke — an incineration of the heart’s earthly bonds.
Aziz Tamoyan, Kalash Tossouni, Amar Ozmanyan: His “kilame ser” or “words about,” addressed the Sinjar massacre in 2014, when 50,000 Yezidis, fled to the mountains of Iraq to escape the Islamic State.
His strong-throated lament, underscored by an oboe and a small amplifier which produced a droning baseline, rose up into the 80-foot vault of the Armory like fire turning softly to smoke — an incineration of the heart’s earthly bonds.