The music that Vardan Hovanissian and Emre Gültekin make together sounds like reconciliation between two peoples. Bringing together the tradition of the Armenian duduk and the Turkish saz, a wind instrument and a cordophone, the two musicians create music as beautiful as it is mysterious and a space of harmony indifferent to borders and the enforced separation between their cultures. They named their second album Karin after the two of them – a favourite on best-of-the-year lists among the world’s music of 2019. Karin is the former Armenian name for the town of Erzurum, now in Turkish territory.