in foreign lands

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