Return to Tenderness

In this episode, we will meet the artist Mahmoud Hussein Al-Hassan, who was born and lives Raqqa, where he talks about his artistic career from the beginnings until the present time.
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He begins the episode by singing a number of traditional Euphrates verses, then he talks about the Rababa, which is his favourite musical instrument, then he talks talking about how he started learning playing on Rababa and how much time and effort he had to learn so that he became proficient and able to play the hardest musical types.
Then the artist moves to talk about the different Euphrates musical types in Raqqa and enumerates them one by one, then mentions his favourite verses of poetry, the reason for his preference for them, and his story with these verses, then he talks about the closest type to his heart, which is the Nayil of Mizmar.
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He talks about his local and Arab performances, then he mentions how much the region suffered in the last decade and the state of isolation that he experienced during that period, then he talks about the change in the local community’s view of music and traditional singing from a state of aversion to a state of return to the roots.
At the end, he plays on the Rababa with the participation of his fellow artists who sing some traditional verses.
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