من غلام قمرم
Man Ghulam Qamaram
“I Am a Slave to the Moon”
I Am a Slave to the Moon — the beloved as moon, the speaker enslaved to her reflected light. Lunar devotion as the central metaphor of a recording from his most productive year.
About This Recording
I Am a Slave to the Moon declares the speaker's subjection in astronomical terms: the moon (qamar) is the beloved, and the speaker is the moon's slave, moving in her orbit, dependent on her light, unable to resist the gravitational pull she exerts. In Persian poetry, the moon is one of the standard metaphors for the beloved — cold, luminous, distant, affecting the tides.
The title track of Vol. 6, this recording establishes the album's thematic center. Zahir's delivery inhabits the declaration of slavery not as abasement but as a statement of the nature of love: genuine love is not a choice made once and then maintained; it is a condition one is in, like the moon's orbit, without the option of leaving.