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The story of the band Altin Gun begins with an old record from the '70s. JASPER VERHULST: Seven or eight years ago or something, I just started collecting music from basically all around the world.

This is a 500-year-old song that carries both Turkish and Arabic elements. UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing in non-English language). CHANG: It's being taught in southern Turkey by Syrian classical ...