Thursday, March 12, 2026

Nazil Tarzi

Reviving Iraqi folk music through Jazz: Karrar Alsaadi speaks to Tamooda

Baghdadi-Viennese composer and songwriter Karrar Alsaadi, known by his stage name "Kiri," has engineered a musical sound which fuses intercontinental jazz with oriental scales. His songs are sung in the colloquial Baghdadi dialect of Arabic; a tip of the hat to the nation that...