I have always loved the sound of Djivan Gasparyan's music. He plays the duduk, a double reed instrument related to the oboe. It's got a great melancholy, other-worldy feel to it.

I took the "other-wordly" idea to make a mix of music that is vaguely foreign sounding, at least foreign to my American ears. The music is Middle Eastern, Asian, African, Eastern European and Indian.

I go back to a familiar source for some of the sounds, the Shortwave Music blog of Myke Weiskopf. Whether it's the night call to prayer in Bulgaria or Qur’an recitation from BSKSA Saudi Arabia, Myke has great recordings that everyone should take the time to investigate.

The times in the tracklist are rough.  Sometimes there are two or three tracks playing at once & not all are listed in the tracklist.  I also messed with a few tracks, adding stretched audio as a backing track or adding reverb.

At various times haunting, beautiful, calming or hypnotic, the music in this mix will hopefully stir your imagination.

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 Djivan Gasparyan - You have to come back to me
02:22 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook - Night Song
06:20 Hildegard Westerkamp - Gently Penetrating
07:00 Night call to prayer in Draginovo, Bulgaria
09:20 Peter Nooten & Michael Brook - Suddenly II
10:25 Maya Beiser - I was there
15:00 harmonic fx
15:50 Gamelan Madu Sari - thinly roundly
18:15 Ayub Ogada - Kothbiro
22:00 Jon Hassell - Frontiera
22:30 Hildegard Westerkamp - Into the labyrinth
22:55 Geir Jenssen - Camp 2, world music on the radio
23:30 Gamelan Madu Sari - Dreams he is a ball of fire or a hummingbird
26:30 Peter Gabriel - Wall of Breath
28:15 Galata Mevlevi - Nay Taksim
29:40 Hildegard Westerkamp - Soundscape of cities, Delhi
30:10 Forrest Fang - Garuda
31:15 Jon Hassell - Tramonto
33:00 Qur’an recitation from BSKSA Saudi Arabia
34:20 Lamp of the Universe - Heru, part 1
36:55 U Srinivas & Michael Brook - Think
41:30 Anouar Brahem - L'oiseau
45:45 Djivan Gasparyan - dle vaman
49:30 Peter Gabriel - A sense of home
51:14 end

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