More for the sake of making people discovering the instrument than anything, lend your ear to the Armenian duduk, a breathy flute that has amazing mournful notes.
The first track could be sad, healing, or good with magic... The second to me brings more of an arabian night feel, but I really love the instrument :
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And a literary aside... This guy tried something really cool. We don't know exactly how to pronounce ancient sumerian, but with what we have of it, and using an instrument of the day, this dude things the beginning of the most ancient piece of literature known to man, The Epic of Gilgamesh.
It always sends shivers down my spine when I hear him begin. I mean, it's as close as we get to hear the work of one of ours, writing FOUR THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
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The dude specialises in reconstructing ancient historically correct instruments of all civilisations. Interesting for the curious.
Just check out the mad playing of this old greek instrument, early electric guitar feel, 3000 years early.
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