Artisode; 1.7; Rahim Alhaj

It's like my babies, I don't see that more or more I like them, but I love them all. But one of the composition always, I think I find myself playing that composition performed is one called a dream, Helum, it's about the desire that we have to touch our own truth. I started when I was eight and a half, and in fact I didn't choose that. I believe that the Ud chose me somehow. Ud for me, for example, when I, the first time I saw it, it's just something inside of me

who was just moving to it. And I know how much I can talk to it. In fact, when my teacher gave me the Ud, I was sleeping with it all the time for five years. Even I was just covering it and talking to it and kissing it all the time and covering it with my applying kiss. I said, oh, good night, good night or something. For five years until my father actually said, well, he saw me, I'm covering my Ud and he said, he is insane. So we need to do something about that. All my composition actually related to stories that I collect from around the world. Just because I came from a really dark environment back then, and has a lot of stories

and has a lot of strategies in my time, at least. I'm trying really hard to make this instrument specifically the voice for people, specifically children and women.