Oud and qanun weaving over electronic pulses that feel ancient and futuristic at the same time. Nima Fakhrara's companion album for Assassin's Creed Mirage brings in the New York Arabic Orchestra alongside musicians from Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, and Tunisia to build something that breathes ninth-century Baghdad.
Read more
"Nuzha Fi Assūq" captures the bustle of a marketplace with layered percussion and call-and-response strings, and "Samāʾun Wa Nujūm" opens up into this vast, starlit meditation. Only nine tracks but every one feels intentional.
If you want to hear what happens when traditional Arabic instrumentation meets modern game scoring without either side compromising, this is it.