Guitpicky
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So here's the sort of semi-Eastern track I wrote. The story behind it is that I read a book on ancient Sumerian culture (3500 BC, I was but a lad), and one of the things in the book was a reference to Sumerian instruments (they've dug them up), and clay cuneiform tablets with instructions on tuning, playing, scales, etc (they used what we call now a Western whole tone scale). Evidently, the instrumental parts were basic, and there was singing, percussion, and other playing on top.
So I tried to imagine what this sounded like, and then it kind of grew into an electronic piece using a synthesized Guzheng sound (obviously not a Sumerian instrument), and kind of got out of what its original intention was, using all kinds of elemental ideas from all over Asia.
Nonetheless, I named it "Uruk" after the most important city in Sumer. Incidentally, there is some speculation that the word, 'Uruk' was maintained in the culture and is the source of the word, 'Iraq'.
Here's the link to the music:
https://soundcloud.com/lschefman/uruk-3-7-19
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