Song of the day: Petra Nachtmanova/Arix

Arix is a Kurdish song about an earthquake that took place in the Arix village of Erzincan province between 26 and 27 December 1939. The women in the village sang this song to mourn their loved ones they lost in the earthquake. Petra Nachtmanova was born in Vienna to a Polish mother and a Czech father. She went to Erzincan and stayed there and felt the pain of the people in the village. She sings the song as if she experienced the earthquake. She both sings and plays her saz.