Behare - Mamlê - Kurdish Folk Music From Eastern Kurdistan

'Behare': Love song. Recorded in Mahabad, July 23, 1962.
Singer: Mihemed Mamlê, 37, of Mahabad . Tar: Asker Tarzan.
Dimbek: Mihemed Hatemî

Mihemed Mamlê is a distinguished professional singer and a member of a renowned Kurdish family of professional musicians in Mahabad.
This type of song is known simply as gorani, that is, 'song' in the broadest sense. Each verse is preceded by an instrumental introduction in Persian style, with some Azerbaijani influence. The song itself is accompanied by the lute only, which provides a heterophonic paraphrase of the melody. The lute is tuned 1-8-4-4-8-8. The song and its presentation are typical for modern Kurdish popular music in eastern Kurdistan