45 Minutes of Ancient Mesopotamian Music for Meditation
This presentation features all the ancient Near Eastthemed tracks from my 2020 album, Echoes of Ancient Mesopotamia Canaan with detailed album notes for each and every track: This album is my mostly historically inspired evocation, of the lost music of ancient Mesopotamia Canaan; but as the final track, this release also features my most recent arrangement of the reconstructed melody of an actual bronze age hymn to Nikkal; the oldest notated fragment of music which can still be interpreted and performed today; performed this time, on a replica of an actual surviving bronze age lyre maqamised in the ancient Middle Eastern tradition, as more recently reccomended by Dr Richard Dumbrill, who deciphered the 3, 400 year old melody from the original Cuniform musical text. I also uploaded my original arrangement of the Hurrian Hymn, remastered from my 2009 album, An Ancient Lyre, as it appears in my 2011 comilation album, Anc
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