Fayez Saidawi Turkish Zurna -

What makes Fayez Saidawi compelling is less virtuosity for virtuosity’s sake than the sense of urgency that drives it. There’s always an implication of story — a ceremony interrupted, a lover lost, a village on the brink — but Saidawi resists spelling it out. He offers the feeling: the reckless joy, the brittle sorrow, the stubborn resilience of people who keep dancing and burying and praising beneath the same sky. The zurna becomes an ancestral voice speaking in the present tense.