Sands of Time - Secret Archives of the Vatican Podcast 71

Hollywood, and more recently the games industry, have created an orient that never existed, one that is gloriously romantic but which has roots in the imagination rather than the real world. We love it.

We regularly play you real music from the real Middle East but here we’ve raided the soundtracks of games and films for pieces of music that complement our usual selection of excellent tunes by lesser known artists. They use all the Hollywood musical cliches, harmonic minor scales with semitone shifts to fake Arabian scales (maqam hijaz as default Eastern scale), plenty of hand percussion by musicians who mostly don’t really understand Arabic rhythms and copious interjections of wailing female vocals. As I said, we love it.

Nearly all the non-soundtrack tunes this time were found on SoundCloud. There is something of a (non-specific) religious theme to the titles but they are predominantly instrumental.

You can find Sands of Time – Secret Archives of the Vatican Podcast 71 here:

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Tracks

1. Welcome to Persia
   Prince of Persia Soundtrack
2. Temple
   Exect
   

3. Floating Temple
   Cutiefox
   

4. Jerusalem
   Assassin’s Creed Soundtrack
5. Our God is an Awesome God
   EC4
   

6. God Loves Ugly
   Dijestic
   
   http://soundcloud.com/dijestic/god-loves-ugly
   
7. Giza 1928
   Stargate Soundtrack
8. God Complex
   Billuf
   
   http://soundcloud.com/billuf/god-complex
   
9. God Mode
   Audiospill
   

10. A Princess is Stolen
    Prince of Persia Soundtrack
11. Half God, Half Beast
    Singam
    

12. Damascus
    Assassin’s Creed Soundtrack
13. Playing God
    Konax
    
    http://soundcloud.com/konax/playing-god
    
14. The Tower of Dawn
    Prince of Persia Soundtrack
15. Farewell Princess
    Prince of Persia Soundtrack

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