Waset by Bānhūs

This track, featured on the compilation, Sounds from Egypt, was composed in response to a call for entries by Cities And Memory, a collaborative and global sound, art and field recording program with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. Featuring thousands of field recordings, recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world. You can explore the sounds via:
https://citiesandmemory.com

Upon hearing the field recording titled, Egypt Luxor - Stone Carving by Rafael DiogoI, a vision immediately formed in my my mind of the sun gazing down on ancient Egypt, while the hustle and bustle of everyday life was driven by the rhythmic sound of workers hammering shapes from stone for work on a temple somewhere in Luxor. I was transported there inexplicably and wholly.

I have had a fascination with ancient Egypt since I was young, reading about a place so different from my own in both distance in time and geography, fed my insatiable curiosity.
Even to this day, watching a new documentary or hearing about a new discovery from this region is thrilling.

And so, it was a great pleasure of mine to utilize this field recording and pay tribute to something that has inspired me my entire life. Starting with the sample itself, instruments of antiquity fade in as a voice calls out in an echoic transition into the past. Global percussion
dances along to the now modulated stone cutting in an oscillating dance that speaks to ages past and the traditions and rituals carried through time to the present.

Sounds From Egypt contains a fantastic range of transcendent compositional approaches and can be found here:
https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-egypt

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