Chakmakchiphon

Write-up

Iraq’s first recording company, founded by Haj Fathi Chakmakchi in Mosul in 1918 and later moved to Baghdad. From its Al-Rasheed Street shop and studio it issued roughly two hundred 78s — masters pressed in Greece or Sweden — including Kurdish singers such as Mihemed Arifê Cizîrî and Hesen Cizîrî.