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Music has the power to bring people together, offer healing, and broaden perspectives. Nvak is a non-profit organization that discovers talented musicians in countries facing social, political, and/or cultural challenges and provides hyper-local, world-class music education and resources to help them create and distribute their own contemporary music worldwide. ​ I Cannot Come Out And Play is a release from the collective of artists promoted by Nvak, performing a collection songs by the famed Armenian priest, musicology, composer, and singer, Komitas. Orphaned at a young age, Komitas was taken to Etchmiadzin, Armenia's religious center, where he received education at the Gevorgian Seminary. Following his ordination as vardapet (celibate priest) in 1895, he studied music at the Frederick William University in Berlin. He thereafter "used his Western training to build a national tradition". He collected and transcribed over 3,000 pieces of Armenian folk music, more than half of which were subsequently lost and only around 1,200 are now extant. Besides Armenian folk songs, he also showed interest in other cultures and in 1903 published the first-ever collection of Kurdish folk songs titled Kurdish melodies. His choir presented Armenian music in many European cities, earning the praise of Claude Debussy, among others.