Teirstein: Azazme Songs (Score)

The suite of tunes Azazme Songs was composed after a four-day trek with the Walidi family of the Azazme Bedouins across the Aravah desert, close to the Israel/Egypt border. Azazme Songs is not intended as authentic transcription, but as the musical offering of a beginner, impressions gleaned from listening around the fi re after walking across an ancient landscape, fi lled with the sense of time unbound. The Appalachian lap dulcimer is used here as a sound evoked by the Bedouin Sumsumia, a strummed psaltery-like instrument.