کیستم من راهنورد
Keestam Man Rahnaward
“Who Am I, a Traveler”
Who Am I, a Traveler — the self-questioning of the perpetual wanderer, identity located in movement rather than place. Love as the condition that makes all fixed home impossible.
About This Recording
Who Am I, a Traveler positions the speaker as the 'awara' — the wanderer, the one without a fixed home. In the Persian lyric tradition, the awara is not merely homeless but existentially unmoored, someone whose love or loss has made any fixed location impossible. The question 'who am I' is not identity confusion but the honest admission that the wandering has changed the self.
Vol. 5 takes its name — Awara — from this figure. The album is organized around the wandering condition, and this track gives it its philosophical frame: the traveler who questions their own nature is also the singer examining what his music is doing, what it means to carry songs across the distances that love creates.