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Beyond The Veiled Horizon (collaboration with D Zeitlin)

MrBouzouki· Jul 18, 2025· 4:23· 42 plays

Taken from the 'Beyond the Veiled Horizon' series of tracks YouTube link www.youtube.com/watch?v=N__bfoPaWlo This track is part of an ongoing collaboration with accomplished keyboard player and Prog Rock enthusiast Dave Zeitlin. https://audius.co/deezee42 Once again, one of Dave's instrumentals entitled "Beyond The Veiled Horizon" conjured up some imagery that inspired me to try and add something to his original track. I was thinking 'Ethno-Prog' mixing Prog Rock with a World sort of feel. The title and music suggested to me the mysterious world of a desert landscape with it's rhythms and music and I had the famous Led Zeppelin 'Kashmir' in my head too. John-Paul Jones added a strings arrangement to that track and I thought I could try something similar. Since it's Prog Rock I wanted to get my electric guitar out and I feel I came up with some phrasing and a scale that works for the idea. I particularly like the solo section at the end featuring Dave. I didn't want to tread on his toes so I went for more melodic held notes and panned myself hard left and right to keep the separation. I used a fair amount of more exotic instruments from various parts of the world. The Persian Ney, Kavali - an End Blown Flute and percussion from ancient Greece and the fairly rare Indian Kanjira that is like a small tambourine. A bell tree, cymbal and water pumpkins were added into the mix too. Finally, I sang in some vocal lines that I felt helped add to the immersion after doing a bit of research about Moroccan vocal phrases. You can buy VST instruments with samples of them but I thought it was more fun to sing in my own and have more control over the finished article as a result. Be careful out there ... who knows what you might discover. Instrumentation Drone - Dee Zee Drone and Chords - Dee Zee String Synth Intro - Dee Zee Brass-Like Synth - Dee Zee Percussion Organ - Dee Zee Main Synth - Dee Zee 8-bit Pattern - Dee Zee High Voice Synth - Dee Zee 80's-Style String Chords - Dee Zee Drum Kit - Dee Zee Guitar-like Riff - Dee Zee Seistron Percussion - MrBouzouki Bell Tree - MrBouzouki Kavali - End Blown Flute - MrBouzouki Ney - Persian End Blown Flute - MrBouzouki Shaker Percussion - MrBouzouki Kanjira - Indian Hand Drum - MrBouzouki Water Pumpkins - MrBouzouki Strings (VSL Appassionata Violins) - MrBouzouki Electric Guitar - MrBouzouki Cymbal - MrBouzouki Ending Hits - MrBouzouki Sung Vocal Phrases - MrBouzouki