Plucked strings and reedy winds pulling you straight into ancient Mesopotamia. Civ VI's New Frontier Pass Volume 2 covers Babylon, Portugal, and Vietnam across twelve tracks of era-spanning evolution. "Babylon (The Ancient Era)" has this dusty, sun-baked quality, music that sounds like it was carved into clay tablets.
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"Portugal (The Medieval Era)" brings in fado-adjacent guitar work, melancholy and maritime at the same time. "Vietnam (The Ancient Era)" is where it really gets interesting, traditional Vietnamese instrumentation creating something delicate and strong at once.
Three civilizations from completely different corners of the world and somehow none of them blur together... Listen to this when you want proof that one composer can convincingly channel three different musical cultures in a single release.