Our lives are made up of countless opportunities. Some of them we snatch instantly and enjoy their sweetness, while with others we let them wither on the vine.

But one of the unfathomable truths about taking advantage of an opportunity is that it rarely

turns out exactly the way we had imagined.

The truth of that can be seen in the life and career, a photographer and musician, Jason

Hamacher, whose path resembles anything but a straight line.

Along with being a photographer and a musician, he's also a physical therapist and a

self-appointed social anthropologist. And not surprisingly,

each of those roles has played off the other. A mistakenly heard word during a telephone call

led him on a search for music sung in the ancient tongue of Aramaic, and which was only sung in modern times but the Syriac Orthodox Church.

He thought it would be a relatively easy thing to get a recording of it.

He found out otherwise.

When I ended up getting on an email originally with the Archbishop of the United States, and he was the one that told me, we don't have a recording of the music you're looking for.

We've got something similar, but not what you're looking for.

And I was just like, well, how do I get a copy of what I want to hear?

It's like, well, we don't have one.

And I was like, well, I'll pay to import one. You know, whatever. It can't cost more than $100.

He's like, no, we just don't have one. And I said, you mean we with a capital W? Like, you've been doing this 1800 years or there's not a, there's not a recording that's

accessible?

He's like, no.

He's like, do you want me to make one for you?

And that's the genesis of this.

So then I go with the idea of recording every chant that they have, which is like at

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