Cuatro Puntos

Cuatro Puntos is a non-profit organization that works to amplify persecuted, silenced and underrepresented musicians and their unique musical styles from around the world. Our album discography chronicles our most in-depth projects: Ji bo sê kes çay (preserving traditional Kurdish music with Mücahit Poyraz); Unsilenced: Underground Music of Afghanistan (12 musicians recorded in Afghanistan 2023, where all music is illegal); Sounds of Persia (persecuted music of Iran with Reza Vali & Dariush Saghafi); Through The Eyes of Children (highlighting American middle school students who speak out against youth violence); Ameen Mokdad’s The Curve & The Curve: Live From Hartford (highlighting musical oppression by extremists in Iraq); Jaipur to Cairo (underrepresented composers/genres of the Middle East); and Rosegarden of Light (young female musicians of Afghanistan). Our albums have been published on Naxos, Toccata Classics, Métier, and Arkadash. The quality of our work has been praised around the world, with airtime on NPR, BBC, and reviews by Fanfare. Cuatro Puntos Ensemble has performed extensively throughout the US and in Bolivia, Brazil, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Afghanistan as they work alongside underrepresented musicians. Our music has been included soundtracks for films produced in England, Australia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and our organization has presented at prestigious universities in the US, UK and Germany. CuatroPuntos.org