Hawa’s deep and colourful music is rooted in the artistic cultures

& heritages of the Middle East and yet the branches of this

musical tree reach up to various different parts of the world.

The music is mainly composed by iraqi composer, poet, singer and

oud player Mohamed Alnuma, who as well has rearranged some

traditional music in his own style.

Along with Oliver Dover’s clarinet and Raul Sengupta’s tabla

Hawa interweaves Indian rhythmic concepts with contemporary

and traditional Arabic Music and Jazz.

Hawa features poems of Sufi inspiration written by Mohamed

Alnuma as well as poems by the Sufi poets Al Hallaj and Ibn

Arabi.

The musicians, unified in the common purpose, embracing a one-

world view outside of the traditional paradigms, have met in India

2022 while touring with different projects.