Qemirî means sun-burned. A beauty marked by fire, carrying both the sting and the glow. That’s where these songs come from — from exile, from survival, from laughter that refuses to disappear.

Some verses are whispered, some are screamed. Some are wedding songs turned inside out, some are memories of suppression set to beats and bass. Old voices meet new machines. Tradition collides with improvisation. It’s a storm, but also a dance.

We (Hêja and Rico) didn’t want to polish history. We wanted to live in it, argue with it, and celebrate it. Every track carries resilience, but also joy — because even in the harshest light, there is still beauty. A sun-burned beauty.

This album is not background music. It’s a diary, a scream, a joke, and a rhythm that insists on being heard. It’s Qemirî — fragile, fierce, and unbreakable.

With Tembûr virtuoso Memo KZK (Koma Zerdeştê Kal), Berlin percussionist Hogir
Göregen, and the driving drumming of Professoro Eray Çaylı, the album elevates to ever higher level. Recorded beside Hasselbrook S-Bahn station in Hamburg with our supernerd sound engineer Henning Riez (who also mixed and mastered it), Qemirî is the first of its kind: a fusion of cultures, emotions, and rhythms that define LOMA REQS.