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Podcast: CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies
Episode: XHM #735 - "The muddled middle fields" (2025 March 24)
Description: With Ramadan partly in mind, we primarily dig into sounds from the Middle East, focusing on Syria, a country that after over a decade of civil war, entered a period of relief. Alexandre Desplat's score to the 2005 film Syriana gives some Western context but we also hear some film music from Lebanon amongst other inspirations. 01. Radio Damascus: 7 Oct 2010 [2133UTC] 9330 kHz (ShortWaveMusic 2011: United Arab Emirates, 2010) Myke Weiskopf 02. Benjamin Clementine: Phantom of Aleppoville (I Tell a Fly, 2017) Behind/Virgin EMI 03. Zakir Hussain: Tabla Taal/Ek Taal [w.Alla Rakha] (The Rough Guide to Zakir Hussain, 2018) World Music Network/Music Rough Guides 04. David...