Abohotho

About Abohotho

Abohotho is a musical evocation of the primeval and ancient majesty of the Near East. The aged idea has finally ascended to reality in 2010 by multi-instrumentalist musician and audio engineer Muhannad Bursheh. Personally handling all composing, performance and production duties; the atmospheric sounds created under the banner of Abohotho are based on a mixture of original ethnic Near Eastern music and ambient musical auras; saturated in atmospheres of ancient ethereal transcendence, heroism, poetry, and ancient warfare.

The instrumentation used is diverse, however, mostly dependent on the synthesized and/or acoustic sounds of ethnic Near Eastern instruments such as the saz, zurna, duduk, oud, qanun, tar, tableh, daff, among others, as well as the bombastic sound of the timpani, and the occasional use of Western orchestral ensembles. The project’s thematic focus lies on the history, tales, and mythology of the Levant and Mesopotamia - the cradle of civilization - a region that gave birth to our Aramean, Assyrian, Canaanite, Hittite, Babylonian, and Sumerian ancestors to name a few.

In August 2011, Abohotho’s debut EP ‘The Primeval Evocation’ was released. It is a small, but sublime 4-track EP that demonstrates the sound of Abohotho. In 2017, the single "'Olmo" was released as a teaser track from the long awaited upcoming full-length album in 2018.

‘Abohotho’ is the Syriac-Aramaic word for ‘Ancestors’.