Off is the latest album of Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 artist Ciwan Haco

Ciwan Haco

Ciwan Haco is a Kurdish singer. He was born near Qamishlo in Syria. His grandfather was originally from Mardin, Turkey. After finishing high school, he left for Germany in order to continue his studies. He studied music at the University of Bochum for three years...

. It has been released in April 2006 in Europe. It features 13 songs, including the electro-pop Li hêviya te and several ballad

Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...

s. All songs are mainly sung in the Kurdish language

Kurdish language

Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....

, although a small part of the song "Li hêviya te" features brief French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

vocals (though sung by a woman, and not by Ciwan Haco himself).

Track listing

1. "Ez dimam"
2. "Dil ketîme"
3. "Felek"
4. "Daristana te"
5. "Dipirsin"
6. "Kal"
7. "Xunav"
8. "Welatê min"
9. "Havîn"
10. "Li hêviya te"
11. "Winda bû"
12. "Hayê"
13. "Gotin sar dibin"