Kourosh Ghazvineh – Maqam Sheykh Amiri (For My Father’s Soul)

For my mother – when she last said “I miss you so much”, I was too choked up to answer her – and for my father’s soul: every time I went to see him in Sahneh, after a long conversation about all sorts of things, he would suddenly say, “Forget all this talk, get your tanbur and play us a little of the Sheykh Amiri maqam.” “I am glad my mother is still with us.”

This video is a short part of the Sheykh Amiri maqam of the Sahneh region, with the kalam (sacred Yarsan verse) of Sheykh Amir, which I learned as a child in the jamkhaneh (Yarsan gathering house) of our village from two respected kalam singers of the village, Seyed Khanmohammad Khani, known as Seyed Khami, and the late Seyed Khanmohammad Mohammadi, known as Seyed Khani.