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Sulaymaniyah

from Continuum by Carol Fieldhouse

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SULAYMANIYAH: A place in Northern Iraq, Sulaymaniyah recalls a snapshot of time in March 2012 when a massive snowstorm blanketed much of the Middle East including this city. A striking image in a newspaper showed snow covered sand dunes, a caravan of camels and an Arab man in white robes catching snowflakes: a simple pleasure, instantly recognisable. Among many playful images I found of adults, children and animals one image stayed with me; it was a black and white image of a Syrian man queuing for bread in a blizzard in the city of Homs as war began.

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SULAYMANIYAH by Carol Fieldhouse

No sun in the skies of Tarbuk
One degree below and falling fast
Strange clouds bring silence as snow begins to fall
Muffling the sound of the muezzin’s call

Desert snowstorms quiet the West Bank
The road to Damascus is closed
Lebanon to Syria blanketed in snow
Cars lie at the sides of the road

I know little of your culture, I know nothing of your lands
But as snow falls in the desert and settles in your hand
I recognise your wonder, an eagerness to play
And the peace of snow descending in Sulaymaniyah today

Snowmen rise on roofs in Beirut
Men dance as snow falls at the Western Wall
Palestine to Jordan Spring foals roll in the snow
As children slip and slide as they go...

I know little of your culture, I know nothing of your lands
But as snow falls in the desert and settles in your hand
I recognise your wonder, an eagerness to play
And the peace of snow descending in Sulaymaniyah today
And the peace of snow descending in Sulaymaniyah today
Sulaymaniyah today

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from Continuum, released June 10, 2022
Carol Fieldhouse: guitar, vocals | Chris Pepper: harmonium | Neill MacColl: guitar John McCusker: accordion, fiddle | Mohammadreza Behjat: Santoor

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Carol Fieldhouse Derbyshire Dales District, UK

After years rooted in Folk and Early Music, I discovered my musical homeland as a songwriter in 2008. My debut album linen, produced by Boo Hewerdine and recorded by engineer Chris Pepper, was Celtic Music Radio’s Album of the Week in 2016.

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