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A Night At The Oasis (collaboration with Dave Zeitlin)

MrBouzouki· Sep 12, 2025· 5:49· 57 plays

Taken from the 'Beyond the Veiled Horizon' series of tracks soundcloud.com/mrbouzouki/sets/beyond-the-veiled-horizon-series YouTube Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4hwcCp3FAU --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This track is is part of an ongoing SoundCloud collaboration with accomplished keyboard player and Prog Rock enthusiast Dave Zeitlin. Be sure to check out more of his music here :- @dee-zee Ever since hearing the Armenian Duduk (a double reed instrument) in Narnia and Dune, I've wanted to include it in one of my pieces. This project with Dave gave me a perfect time for a slower piece of music set around a night at an oasis. We didn't want it to be just that, so we did decide to add in a dance section too in the middle of the piece. I had the idea of a traveller arriving at an oasis as the sun falls and pouring himself a cup of water. Then after watching a dance there is the sound of two cups being filled and a female laugh, once again to the sultry sound of the Duduk and Strings. It is Ethno Prog though, so Dave got to work creating synthesiser parts as part of the dance section. I added in various rhythmic elements including Darbuka, Riq, Cymbals, Clapping and a Vocal part. I wanted to keep an eastern feel so I decided to use the Oud to add quasi bass guitar lines to the dance section of the piece. I feel all the disparate elements came together very well in the end and it drops the listener into the moment. Instrumentation Intro Synth - Dee Zee Arpeggio Synth - Dee Zee Main Solo Synth - Dee Zee Echo Lead Synth - Dee Zee Pouring Water FX - MrBouzouki Female Laugh FX - MrBouzouki Bell Tree - MrBouzouki Low Pedal (Smart Spheres) - MrBouzouki Duduk - MrBouzouki VSL Appassionata Violins - MrBouzouki Full of Feeling Strings - MrBouzouki EE Rhythm - MrBouzouki Darbuka - Percussion - MrBouzouki Cymbals - Percussion - MrBouzouki Rik - Percussion - MrBouzouki Clapping - MrBouzouki Vox FX - MrBouzouki Tam Tam - Percussion - MrBouzouki Con Sordino Strings - MrBouzouki