SOUNDS FROM THE PORTS: DRIFTING WITH MARYAM

Dokhtar Bandari is a sonic offering shaped by migration, inheritance, and the saltwater air of the Gulf. This mix traces the spirited pulse of Bandari music — a genre born of port cities and diasporic routes — echoing across Qeshm, Bastak, Bandar Kangan, Busher, Oman, Bahrain, Baluchistan, and beyond. Known also as hiban (هَبان), this folk tradition is driven by the raw, breathy textures of the nei anban (goat-skin bagpipe), and performed in moments of collective celebration: weddings, births, nights that resist sleep.

Curated by Maryam, DJ and archivist whose practice honors the intertidal zones of memory and sound, this mix is about the sea people who carry their culture across shifting borders, through an archive of voices that swell, rupture, and reassemble refusing to be contained.

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