Yesterday was a very special day. Taher Adel and I met for the first time to rehearse and bring the music and poetry of Ashkan Behzadi’s Ballads: Oblique together. For this commission (which is part of a set of new works for my current solo project), I paired Ashkan with Taher, a poet and spoken word artist who wrote his series Arabic Names for Home for us. The piece is a conversation between the music and Taher’s poetry, and I am absolutely delighted that Taher will join me