Antique Orient EP
It's not every day that we have a collaboration spanning the distance from Algeria to Germany, but here we have a special one for you! Balearia and Johannes Fischer join forces to bring us wonderful music from the Orient in this fantastic EP. We start off with Prelude, which includes a beautiful solo duduk melody combined with some mysterious hummings. Hegra is an ancient pre-Islamic site in Saudi Arabia, and this track maintains the emotional oriental sound but gets a more fast-paced melody by the frequent use of the different percussion instruments. Derinkuyu also includes an oriental atmosphere by the use of string instruments with a duduk melody that gives a low-pitched sound. This will make you feel like you're in the ancient multi-level underground city in Turkey that this track is named after. Finally, Achaemenid which refers to the First Persian Empire starts with an enigmatic voice followed by a distinctive duduk that gives a downhearted emotion. The addition of the drums and cymbals