This remains one of my absolute favorite fantasy sets. I find myself choosing it again and again when I'm in a creative mood, and want to use music to relax and let my mind run free. It just never gets old. You really touched something special, something very ancient, and connected down near the universal in our human roots. What a tremendous gift. Thank you again for sharing it so freely with us all.
Thank you again for the encouraging words. I have some ancient guitar tracks coming next, then I will do another ancient world. Doing this is very releasing for me, helps me reset. Would love to do this full time some day.
I recently watched a documentary on Assyria which was on youtube. It was done quite well. It was called "The Assyrians - Empire of Iron." They had maps showing ruins of ancient cities. More and more people seem to be studying the ancient empires as the internet helps with it all
@@انفال-ز4ه modern day iraqies are as far away from assyrians as mongols are from turks, there was so much interbreeding that the ancient peoples are bred to extinction, like the ancient egyptians. the people there are now mainly arabian/iranian/kurdish.
It's so beyond gorgeous You did a perfect job in creating this soundtrack! It hit the spot you have such imagination to create such a masterpiece! May GOD bless you and your future endeavors!
PLEASE MAKE MORE!! Honestly the settings of the Middle East/Ancient Assyria are so ignored and neglected I wish there was a Dark Souls game set in this universe
Im working on a new piece / theme every evening between 11am and 2am. I'm on the 4th song. One has been stuck in my head all day ~~ After I write ten or twelve, I need to produce them (make them suitable, balanced, mixed, EQ, etc). That takes a week or two. I have also been talking with two new singers. Both ladies are ...epic. I hate putting up dates but I do get faster at this all the time. I may work on it all holiday weekend!, especially if it rains. Thanks for the encouragement
@@AncientAmbience No problem, we need MORE channels like this man - stuff like this is so under-rated on youtube It was youtube that put this on my list when I was trying to friend Arabic Hollywood style music - this is good!
This is beautiful music, but Assyria was not a desert as this image indicates. We had green vegetation, valleys, and mountains since Assyria was located in what is now northern Iraq or Kurdistan, a region with hot summers and cool wet winters, that is more similar to Spain than to Persia or Egypt.
Nice! The image depicts what the remains sort of look like today. From what I can tell the city was discovered abandon and in ruins by a retreating army a few thousand years ago as they had to retreat on foot. They tried to figure out what happened. Scientists figure it too may have been destroyed by the flood but it was subject to multiple wars
you just made me travel back in time ,yes i saw the desert ,the oasis ,beautiful black haired veiled women ,the camels the moon in the nightsky desert is amazing ,i want to stay there ! thanks
I love everything about this. The music and the mood are on point. This may sound cheesy but I'm writing a medieval fantasy story about two brothers. They have a huge argument and end up separating at the ages of 18 and 16. They eventually reconcile and fight together to save humanity from enslavement by vampires, werewolves, and giants. I'm pulling from a lot of different mythologies for my story. Mainly Greek and ancient Middle Eastern mythologies. This sets the perfect mood for that. If you could do any more ancient Middle Eastern ambience that would be great. Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, just to name a few. Would love some Greek ambience as well. You're really good at this. Hope to listen to more of your work in the future.
This is amazing for lounging… I love having ambient background music playing and this theme has been peaking my interest… you should definitely consider making soundtracks for films/games
could be the soundtrack of an american western movie... the cowboy who lost his horse and had to walk off the high plateau desert fighting off sun and vultures scorpions, snakes, drought and dangerous indigenes.
This wasn't what I was looking for so I haven't listened more than 10 mins, but I hope I can come back to it again because this is super nice! Lovely ancient feel, in combination with the soft cgi of the imagery it reminds me of the music in the Myst games C:
Thank you. In Feb I expanded my wood shop a little to do more woodwork and at the same time I started uploading tracks to my youtube channel. I just haven't been promoting through the normal channels as I should. I was going to start all that in May. That is all changing as I upgraded the studio and purchased some new instruments. I have two+ day jobs too which is nutty. I need more hours in the day! I would love to move into music production full time someday.
Oh , I have never seen this channel before . Wow, it looks like some sort of epic story is going to unfold here , like a scene out of a Hollywood movie . Its isolated , remote and there is a definite sense of foreboding about this image . It could even be another planet in " a galaxy far far away " . There is a very sober atmosphere in this visual , I love it , thanks very much . It leaves so much to our own imagination and to me the image therefore becomes completely immersive . Nice job .
OMG... This is mesmerizing music, and precisely what I needed to sit down a write a particular scene. Please, please, make more of these. In the meantime, I am putting this one in a loop.
Awesome and thank you. The next track is well underway. Maybe 50% written? Storyline too. I also finished the names for most time stamps. I just need to add them. Working on it again this evening.
Wow, you've really captured a beautiful atmosphere. The right balance of mystery and relaxation. Out of interest, what DAW did you use? Subscribed #489 and Liked #1000 ;) I look forward to more updates soon.
DAWs - Ok the main workstations I build myself. I've been building them since the mid 90s and keep winding up using Asus boards. I used to use SCSI RAID until the SSDs came out so now I stuff as many of those drives in as I can afford. I use three PCs in the studio. Two Asus and one Dell. All are P 3.0, 16G ram, Win 8. RME card in one, Soundblaster Z in two. One PC for writing/recording, one for videos/uploads, one as an external sampler giving me a third sampler.
@@AmbientDawn Thanks. Hard part is keeping the room cool in August :) I like keeping software simple. I want to be a musician / writer / producer, not an engineer or a tech. Mostly I use FL Studio and Cakewalk and several outboard plugins for mastering, level indicators, etc. Faster the better.
These tracks were a lot more professional sounding than I expected. I thought this was just going to be the same thing looped over and over for an hour but every track was different. Even Pileser's Bazaar had Arabic singing in the background. Wow.
Thank you for the kind words. Im setting up at the moment to do some practice runs for ambient guitar tracks. I'm not sure what to expect, which is half the fun of it. Thanks again
Thank you for the compliment. Yes, I wrote all these songs last year. Two or three at the end of summer, the rest before Christmas / New year holidays, finished them all in January.
I am sorry but for a little while longer I am advised to keep it locked down. I need to decide which way to go with this. I will mention in comments once I get caught up. ty
This is just the perfect musical backdrop to Gilgamesh's long and sad journey from Utnapishtim back to his home in Uruk - his vain attempts to stay awake for 7 nights, his renewal through washing and new clothes, his equally vain underwater search along the river bed looking for that promising plant, and then having to accept the sad fact that he will one day die.
That's the way of it all, guys. Life is a glorious adventure you wish would go on forever, and you even think for awhile maybe it could. Then you realize, and it hits you in the face like a wet fish in a fast moving stream: Aging sucks, and then you die. 🙄 So be kind to others, and make the absolute most of it all while you can. (And never save the best bits for last.) 💦🐬💦
Please tell me where i can find a music download for this music ? this music is sooooo beautiful. i love it i would like to use it for my Ultima Online videos!!!!
the ethereal voices and ancient sound to the music works on my creativity and I feel elevates and opens my mind... this is sensational stuff... thank you. >TED (Arizona USA)
calming and relaxing, exactly what I need. Great music and video. I wish everyone reading this good health and success in their life. You have a new friend. ❤❤
Yes! discussions we have had here many times! I wondered, before the flood, back when Atlantis / Sumer were thriving, what type of instruments did they have? I see ancient paintings where kings / queens were holding what looked like laptops, so I had to decide. Then being a guitar player for decades and looking at all these guitars I have, another hard choice leaving them out. So both piano and guitar are quite limited.
Hello, thank you and I appreciate your interest. I am sorry but not at this time as the music is part of another project. After my next release things may change. The next release called "Ten days in Sumer" which is around 80% complete. By the way, nice work on your videos!
@@lynixwolfyspade Its hard because I started another job in March. I crawl to the studio every night around midnight to write or fall to sleep., which ever happens first! :)
Ty. Sometimes when one can't afford what they really need the next best thing is to build it themselves. This is what drove me to start building instruments. As for PCs, I was building DAWs for resale in the 90s. 1996 to 2002 to be exact, then moved onto websites. Been building them for myself ever since.
@@Guto_Loco_Gushek_Brasil Thanks. Its actually much fun being in a woodshop that can do most anything. I will place photos online soon, website, instagram, facebook. Both the home studio and the woodshop
@@Guto_Loco_Gushek_Brasil I will post links under songs once I have the other media sites loaded. TH-cam started recommending Gates of Assyria before I was even finished w my youtube channel. Caught me off guard! - lol. Now I'm trying to catch up while I release new material. work my other jobs. Thanks for the support
Подобно первым лучам зари, эта музыка открывает вам глаза на новые обещания и на все чудеса природы. Вызывая невероятные силы, эти произведения трогают струны сердца, вызывают ностальгию и пробуждают любовь, ободранные жизни и оцепенение измученных стражников
Thank, you and agree. I believe we are learning from our past to evolve to where we are supposed to be. I try to remind even myself through music. I will remember your words while I work on the next project ~
Fascinating and beautiful - but I hear that huge reverb far too often. To get a feel of ancient instruments, I'd like to hear what this music sounds like with a more natural 'room ambience'. They didn't always play in caves and churches!
Well done! I know what hard work goes into reproducing ancient instruments... Even if it's an activity that brings you joy, it takes real dedication and care. I'm really impressed by the diversity of your talents... I'm fascinated by this ancient period as well, and experience dreamlike visions of these times off and on. I'm convinced there was a lot more going on in this region during that time than a bunch of patriarchal bronze age war lords flexing their muscles, indulging in blood baths, and having sex with everything that moves. 😛 Looking forward to hearing more from you in future.
Thank you. I'm an electric guitar builder mostly and I use some as MIDI triggers. I also built four harps modeled after King David's final harps. Designs can be seen on ancient coins found in Egypt. Posting images in the future.
U se a custom / acoustic guitar retrofit with custom pickup to play Oud samples (actual recordings of Oud). I am a guitar player so this allows me to play the Oud using a guitar fingerboard. (I am preparing several new videos with this new setup including behind the scenes on how I built the guitar). Release of first video as soon as p[ossible.
He's right, Ed. You have some very inspired cinematic talent going for you. "Journey" is one of the tracks that really shows off some of your abilities. You shouldn't have to be working so many hours every day outside your art. With your talent, you ought to be getting some paying gigs for your compositions. I'm working on a professional networking connection that might work well for you that I heard about from some of my friends at Cal Arts. You may already know about this group, but I'll be back when I have the name and link confirmed for you, just in case you don't already know about it. All we artists in the US face this dilemma of how to support ourselves and our families and still have all the precious time we need to develop and share our art. It shouldn't be this hard, and in some cultures in the past it seems they had better support systems going for artists like yourself. We do what we can. 💛
where do you usually get your sounds from man, im i a music producer tryna explore to find new sounds and realsticness of all these intrigue me. beautiful mix by the way!
TY! I use sound libraries and samples from anyone who released old instrument sample sets. I also make a ton of my own. It took me years to collect / sort them all. I started back in 1997 while selling DAWs out of electronic musician mag. So many companies are awesome these days., I love them ALL. I'm putting their names in all the song credit sections. (next few days)
I was just reading in the back under advertising, I think if I mention software / hardware makers in the video texts its considered advertising?? and I need to notify y-tube that I am doing this. I will study it further and get back.
@@AncientAmbience appreciate the effort! I would love to know, im pretty sure it should be fine to put the names of it as long as you dont provide links i guess
Hi there, I wrote and produced it all. I have decades worth of saved samples and musical instruments. I build electric guitars, harps, other stuff. I play anything with strings. I play piano and synths. I have another one hour piece underway. I just need to back away from some of my day job so I can produce faster.
Yes I will list individual song names with time stamps. I'm new as a artist on youtube and social media and am trying to learn it all as fast as I can. The traffic on my channel was unexpected and I wasn't ready. I'm staying focused on it on it now. Im trying to finish up a new instrument too
@@AncientAmbience that's really cool, may God be with you my friend. I'm actually a new film maker. I've been focusing on green screen work, with the end goal of within the next 2 years of putting together a film entirely in green screen that takes place during the Crusades. Thats how I came across your video. As I try and find music that matches well with the time and areas.
@@yearight1205 Very cool. So much can be told about those days. I am drawn to that time period, if there is such a thing. It seems as if the Crusades started 6000 years ago and never ended. Its luring, relaxing, compelling and 'dangerous'. I am always studying as far back as I can go and as a result more and more my music seems to land there. Curious to see what you produce
@@AncientAmbience you know my friend, what you wrote got me thinking. If you like rare and interesting things from the past, as well as the Middle East, although I am not a Muslim or from the religions that came before them (I am a Christian), the Middle East used to have legends that predate Islam, but which Islam echos about the lost city of Irem. I'll link you a TH-cam video of a guy discussing it. I always thought the idea was interesting, and it might inspire your work. I liked what I've heard from you so far. Hope at the very least you find this interesting. th-cam.com/video/7HnIFyO8AT8/w-d-xo.html
More of this! Other cultures other regions! Ancient and beautiful! I'd love to hear ancient Rome or Egypt, and maybe ancient Meso American or Native American.
Thanks for the comments and request. I have been archiving pieces related to ancient Americas and would love to try to build out a one hour release. Maybe next year at this time.
I will name the songs soon I promise. The last one is an ancient harp that was sampled. I play the samples using a MIDI / electric guitar. I am doing another similar piece and filming the recording real time. When I upload the names I will notify you. I am also considering uploading the songs individually.
you know Ancient Ambience, I feel in today's troubled world, there are two things that really unite the masses... and those are soccer and music. this production, "Gates of Assyria" is a good example. just listening has a calming effect... it's really truly a beautiful mix
Ty, Sorry for the delay. Summer work has me working doubles this year. I reached out to you I believe in an email message. Please check as Im not sure if it was you or not. E
@@AncientAmbience No problem! I don't think email is set up on this account for me - for what it's worth, my video this music would be in isnt monetized (though i may have a patreon set up one day, we'll see!)
Ed, I had to give my high respect to your compositions. This is music with a deep personality. Such music is able to touch hearts. I'm thankfull to get the link from your son Cody, which is a high gifted knife maker.
You brought me to tears with this. As an Assyrian, this in some way, has brought me closer to a spiritual connection with my heritage when I needed it most.
The original Assyrians were Pagan and worshiped the deity of the same name, Ashur. They were conquered and destroyed by the Babylonians. Everything ends for a reason. They were converted to Christianity in the first century AD.
Phenomenal, if it's really done by you. It makes me nostalgic about the past that I never had and optimistic about the future that will never arrive, very otherworldly feeling. Keep at it, if you can - this stuff is quality and deserves recognition!
Thanks Dave. as weird as it may sound I study the past to help me make decision for the future. I have also been listening to and studying ancient music and instruments for maybe twenty years. When I write recently this is what seems to come out. I have 200 songs started and save something new every few days. I write to wind down every day. I am almost to the point where I can upload a new piece weekly.
Mainly I am a guitar player. Ive been playing for over 50 years. I had no lessons so first songs I played were originals. I write in all guitar genres. Synths and samplers were usually used in breaks and choruses but for ambient they are forefront. I trigger my samples with a Korg M1 and an Ibanez xing 2010 w a MC1 controller. Someday I'll make a video showing people how I do it.
@@dev4res Thanks for the comments, compliments and info! It's all inspiring to me. I travel back in time so I can study cultures, people, and musical instruments. I guess their music is rubbing off on me a little. Seriously, I do love all cultures, people, music and, musical instruments. The variation amazes me. I find Ambient is diverse in that way too. It is open-genre, open-culture, and seemingly timeless. Are we in the past, present or future? Maybe all three! All of that pushes me to write in this groove. I would love to do this full time. Concepts - Life is funny how projects are started, abandon, then revisited for completion. For example, musically I sometimes take years off then create something that makes me wish I had stayed with it. I guess it comes down to life. People simply need to work for a living, and life can get in the way. TH-cam makes dreams possible though. One just needs to study and apply. Dust off that old guitar. It opens portals! Tonight I travel to East Mesopotamia. At 6:00pm I have music class and I can't be late! :)
@@AncientAmbience I look forward to your future creations, man. And my guitar will have to wait a little, because just the way you have your instruments - I have my brush and pen and they take me to amazing places as well. ;) Back to painting listening to your music! Cheers!
Thank you. When I write I get the vibe of the ancient past equals the distant future, and the distant future equals the ancient past. Full circle kind of thing
I have some questions for you, Ed, if that's ok. At 14:00 in the song "Two Doves," you use an instrument, the sound of which I found hard to recognize. At first I thought it sounded like some kind of horn I'd never heard before, but it was hard to tell exactly what it was. I have a degree in Ethnomusicology and performance from Calif Inst of the Arts from the 1970's, when awareness and study of so-called "world music" was just beginning, and a synthesizer wasn't much more than a big conglomerate of patch boards that had to be hand-patched like a telephone switchboard. So I am intrigued when I hear instruments that are new to me. I'm wondering if this is actually some kind of horn, or another instrument, or a sampled instrument that has been electronically altered. That's followed by a beautiful flute, and then some kind of bowed instrument I don't quite recognize starts at 16:45. Also wondering what the bowed fiddle is, as it was this type that I studied most while in school, across several cultures. Also, are any of these particular instruments ones that you made, or ones you collected? Wondering also, are you sampling all of the instruments and performing them electronically on guitars, or are you playing some of the actual instruments yourself realtime onto some of the tracks? Btw, "Two Doves" is a very lovely melody... You mentioned making several King David harps. That's pretty darn awesome. Are any of them featured in any of these compositions? If so, can you say which ones? I'd like to hear what they sound like. Thx, and all the best to you. Really enjoying your music a lot. Frissons all over the place! Your friends were right to push you onto the internet. You belong here, and your music definitely deserves to be heard. 🔥💚🔥
Thank you for all the kind words. I am well into the next release. Not sure when it will be complete as I'm working 2-3 jobs and I usually crawl into the studio. Hopefully in 2-3 weeks. INSTRUMENTS - no, I do not build all the instruments but I wish I could (maybe someday). I am a electric guitar builder. I build them from scratch. Several of those guitars I incorporated a MIDI pickup systems to trigger the samples. I also restored a Ibanez X-ING 2010 which is a dedicated MIDI trigger guitar. I bought that along with other MIDI gear from Michael Nesmith of the The Monkees back in the 2000s. I use them all because I use alt tuning a bunch. Sometimes I record faster when using a guitar over a piano trigger. HARPS - I built maybe a dozen harps. First half dozen were prototypes which I scuttled for the next harp. The last three were keepers. I gave two away to close friends and kept one. All were modeled after what I learned later were harps designed by King David. He built harps his entire life, starting with deer antler and deer tendons as strings. He was the "Gibson/Fender" of 5000 years ago. It was called a "Kinnor." If you search "Kinnor harp ancient coin" you can get the just of it. I am using photos of it for the next several releases. Made of Cyprus, Olive Wood, Camel bone. I did not play/record it direct as I still had tuning issues so instead I sampled it and use it that way. It sounds unique yet similar to others. "Twang wobble". I am adding piezo sensors to it at the moment I also used it in reverse in several spots. I have around 200 songs started and it is being used more than once. Only having 1hr for Gates of Assyria only those tracks listed made the album. I am redoing the Kinnor at the moment for up coming pieces. I have a new harp in the works also, some other string inventions underway too. SAMPLES - In 2017 I was involved in a car wreck where I was blasted. I didn't collect much in fact it didn't cover my medical bills. I had four busted fingers on my left hand which took me away from the guitar. Nearly 1 year I couldn't bare to play then the next 6mo I used the guitar as therapy. At the same time I updated myself on MIDI samplers and sample libraries. I also built 2-3 sampler PCs. I recorded many songs using only my right hand on piano as my left was n/a. I studied all library creators and love them all. I will list and give credits to them all hopefully when I take a well needed vacation. I purchased many packs and a Kemper back then. I think between my own sample libraries and purchased libraries I only have around 2TB but its still hard to manage. I focused on buying harps, flutes, percussion, vocal/voices. TWO DOVES - I will need to load that song back up and look at the details but from when I remember I used five flute / horn / wind instruments rotating between them. Some I filter and stretch to make them more of a "support instrument" in the background. I also use them to hold the root note. I had a some odd Oboe samples but at the 16:45 even 18:45 mark, I'm pretty sure those are both wind instruments. As support I added strings and voices toward the end. This evening I will see if I can pinpoint instrument names. Ty for the interest. Building string / other instruments is one of my favorite things to do.
Thank you! I've been a guitar player/song writer most my life but I listen to ambient music while I work, study, chill. Past few years I've been moving more and more into this genre. I find it quite luring. I also really like the ambient community too, it's.. peaceful. I look forward to ambient writing more and more. New material currently underway
@@AncientAmbience Your musical work is awesome, I'd recommend you to offer some tracks to games- and independent film makers, it's really good for ambient backgrounds, especially this one.
@@villebooks Thank you for the words of encouragement. I guess I should look into that more. I'm just so busy with my day jobs. It would be really nice to walk away from those to move into music full time for sure. Give the music quality time instead of midnight to 2am.
@@AncientAmbience Yeah I know, I'm a journalist, and have time for my own creative stuff only at nighttime 😅 Glad I found your channel, I've been spending a lot of time in the Middle East and love the instruments like the Oud, your arrangements and sounds you use let people dream of far places and ancient realms. Respect - keep it up.
Listening to this while reading Eckart Frahm's instant ancient history classic, "ASSYRIA: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire".
This remains one of my absolute favorite fantasy sets. I find myself choosing it again and again when I'm in a creative mood, and want to use music to relax and let my mind run free. It just never gets old. You really touched something special, something very ancient, and connected down near the universal in our human roots. What a tremendous gift. Thank you again for sharing it so freely with us all.
Thank you again for the encouraging words. I have some ancient guitar tracks coming next, then I will do another ancient world. Doing this is very releasing for me, helps me reset. Would love to do this full time some day.
I am assyrian and I am from Moscow and I am proud that people still remember Assyria and assyrians. Thank you for your work.
Your quite welcome. 5000 to 7000 years ago, that area was the center of everything. Much to learn of those people and that area.
@@AncientAmbience I am crying :) especially sitting at the table and learning a language (Assyrian) that you don't know.
But the Assyrians are in Iraq. It is the ancient civilization of Iraq
I recently watched a documentary on Assyria which was on youtube. It was done quite well. It was called "The Assyrians - Empire of Iron." They had maps showing ruins of ancient cities. More and more people seem to be studying the ancient empires as the internet helps with it all
@@انفال-ز4ه modern day iraqies are as far away from assyrians as mongols are from turks, there was so much interbreeding that the ancient peoples are bred to extinction, like the ancient egyptians. the people there are now mainly arabian/iranian/kurdish.
It's so beyond gorgeous You did a perfect job in creating this soundtrack! It hit the spot you have such imagination to create such a masterpiece! May GOD bless you and your future endeavors!
PLEASE MAKE MORE!!
Honestly the settings of the Middle East/Ancient Assyria are so ignored and neglected I wish there was a Dark Souls game set in this universe
Im working on a new piece / theme every evening between 11am and 2am. I'm on the 4th song. One has been stuck in my head all day ~~ After I write ten or twelve, I need to produce them (make them suitable, balanced, mixed, EQ, etc). That takes a week or two. I have also been talking with two new singers. Both ladies are ...epic. I hate putting up dates but I do get faster at this all the time. I may work on it all holiday weekend!, especially if it rains. Thanks for the encouragement
@@AncientAmbience No problem, we need MORE channels like this man - stuff like this is so under-rated on youtube
It was youtube that put this on my list when I was trying to friend Arabic Hollywood style music - this is good!
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This is beautiful music, but Assyria was not a desert as this image indicates. We had green vegetation, valleys, and mountains since Assyria was located in what is now northern Iraq or Kurdistan, a region with hot summers and cool wet winters, that is more similar to Spain than to Persia or Egypt.
Nice! The image depicts what the remains sort of look like today. From what I can tell the city was discovered abandon and in ruins by a retreating army a few thousand years ago as they had to retreat on foot. They tried to figure out what happened. Scientists figure it too may have been destroyed by the flood but it was subject to multiple wars
Please label the songs soon, I have been going through this a lot these past few days and I need an easier way to jump around other than memory lol
He added timestamps, definitely helps
@@fulfillmenttheory thank you for telling me!! I still listen to this on occasion, just never checked to see. Appreciate you.
Wonderful idea! 😁😄
IN-credible music! please more of the same kind......
Very good ambiance for writing fantasy... We need more! More!
Thanks for this cool music and idea. Gives me some nice feelings about my ancestors while programming.
same! my grandfather Ninos Aho would agree with you! :)
you just made me travel back in time ,yes i saw the desert ,the oasis ,beautiful black haired veiled women ,the camels the moon in the nightsky desert is amazing ,i want to stay there !
thanks
Oh, this is so beautiful. It reminded me of "The Fall Of Sodom and Gomorrah."
I love everything about this. The music and the mood are on point. This may sound cheesy but I'm writing a medieval fantasy story about two brothers. They have a huge argument and end up separating at the ages of 18 and 16. They eventually reconcile and fight together to save humanity from enslavement by vampires, werewolves, and giants. I'm pulling from a lot of different mythologies for my story. Mainly Greek and ancient Middle Eastern mythologies. This sets the perfect mood for that. If you could do any more ancient Middle Eastern ambience that would be great. Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, just to name a few. Would love some Greek ambience as well. You're really good at this. Hope to listen to more of your work in the future.
you should change your story to have the brothers save the world from Russians - that would be very realistic!
@@drewkingson . And someone should save you...
From yourself.
@@redpillscholar560 🤣👌
Beautiful! I've subscribed. Looking forward to listening to more of your work :)
This is amazing for lounging… I love having ambient background music playing and this theme has been peaking my interest… you should definitely consider making soundtracks for films/games
I am extremely impressed. Thank you.
could be the soundtrack of an american western movie... the cowboy who lost his horse and had to walk off the high plateau desert fighting off sun and vultures scorpions, snakes, drought and dangerous indigenes.
This wasn't what I was looking for so I haven't listened more than 10 mins, but I hope I can come back to it again because this is super nice! Lovely ancient feel, in combination with the soft cgi of the imagery it reminds me of the music in the Myst games C:
This is stunning!! It deserves way more views!
Thank you. In Feb I expanded my wood shop a little to do more woodwork and at the same time I started uploading tracks to my youtube channel. I just haven't been promoting through the normal channels as I should. I was going to start all that in May. That is all changing as I upgraded the studio and purchased some new instruments. I have two+ day jobs too which is nutty. I need more hours in the day! I would love to move into music production full time someday.
First track is absolutely awesome. Killer Work!
Yes! ;D
Finally. Your channel is what I have been looking for
Two Doves is one of the most beautiful composed tracks I've ever heared.
Oh , I have never seen this channel before . Wow, it looks like some sort of epic story is going to unfold here , like a scene out of a Hollywood movie . Its isolated , remote and there is a definite sense of foreboding about this image . It could even be another planet in " a galaxy far far away " . There is a very sober atmosphere in this visual , I love it , thanks very much . It leaves so much to our own imagination and to me the image therefore becomes completely immersive . Nice job .
Reminds me of Dune
This is so peaceful and relaxing. Thank you. 🌸
The blend of old European and Middle-Eastern instruments reminds me of The Crusades. This quickly became one of my favorite ambient music mixes.
This is just awesome. More like this please! 👍
That was a great soundtrack while I watched the eclipse and made smores at the fire.
Way cool! :)
OMG... This is mesmerizing music, and precisely what I needed to sit down a write a particular scene. Please, please, make more of these. In the meantime, I am putting this one in a loop.
Awesome and thank you. The next track is well underway. Maybe 50% written? Storyline too. I also finished the names for most time stamps. I just need to add them. Working on it again this evening.
Thanks for this great job. It lets me out of words, so glad to had it.
Wow, you've really captured a beautiful atmosphere. The right balance of mystery and relaxation. Out of interest, what DAW did you use?
Subscribed #489 and Liked #1000 ;) I look forward to more updates soon.
DAWs - Ok the main workstations I build myself. I've been building them since the mid 90s and keep winding up using Asus boards. I used to use SCSI RAID until the SSDs came out so now I stuff as many of those drives in as I can afford. I use three PCs in the studio. Two Asus and one Dell. All are P 3.0, 16G ram, Win 8. RME card in one, Soundblaster Z in two. One PC for writing/recording, one for videos/uploads, one as an external sampler giving me a third sampler.
Actually, I was referring to just the music software, but blimey, that's a helluvan impressive creative setup!
@@AmbientDawn Thanks. Hard part is keeping the room cool in August :) I like keeping software simple. I want to be a musician / writer / producer, not an engineer or a tech. Mostly I use FL Studio and Cakewalk and several outboard plugins for mastering, level indicators, etc. Faster the better.
@@AncientAmbience Amazing music! Impressive. I've never used FL or Cakewalk. I'm using Logic.
These tracks were a lot more professional sounding than I expected. I thought this was just going to be the same thing looped over and over for an hour but every track was different. Even Pileser's Bazaar had Arabic singing in the background. Wow.
Thank you for the kind words. Im setting up at the moment to do some practice runs for ambient guitar tracks. I'm not sure what to expect, which is half the fun of it. Thanks again
This sounds really magical. Gives me the feeling that youre closer to the gods
That's a good way of putting it
Track List is a must. Please do this in the future
Did you wrote this music yourself.. The last part is unbelievable
Thank you for the compliment. Yes, I wrote all these songs last year. Two or three at the end of summer, the rest before Christmas / New year holidays, finished them all in January.
Is your music available to license? Royalty Free? Please let me know. Thank you!
I am sorry but for a little while longer I am advised to keep it locked down. I need to decide which way to go with this. I will mention in comments once I get caught up. ty
@@AncientAmbience O.k, thank you!
This is just the perfect musical backdrop to Gilgamesh's long and sad journey from Utnapishtim back to his home in Uruk - his vain attempts to stay awake for 7 nights, his renewal through washing and new clothes, his equally vain underwater search along the river bed looking for that promising plant, and then having to accept the sad fact that he will one day die.
Indeed!!! He was a cool dude who became bitter as he learned he wasn't immortal as some of his ancestors were.
That's the way of it all, guys. Life is a glorious adventure you wish would go on forever, and you even think for awhile maybe it could. Then you realize, and it hits you in the face like a wet fish in a fast moving stream: Aging sucks, and then you die. 🙄 So be kind to others, and make the absolute most of it all while you can. (And never save the best bits for last.)
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Essa música é maravilhosa, parabéns pelo belíssimo trabalho! Escutando de São Paulo, Brasil. One love
¡Gracias mi amigo! He estado trabajando duro y pronto habrá nuevos lanzamientos.
Please tell me where i can find a music download for this music ? this music is sooooo beautiful. i love it i would like to use it for my Ultima Online videos!!!!
I'm sorry I don't have any downloads ready yet. I'm studying the best way to do those type things. I will post news as I get caught up (sry)
the ethereal voices and ancient sound to the music works on my creativity and I feel elevates and opens my mind...
this is sensational stuff... thank you. >TED (Arizona USA)
Your welcome! I'll keep that in mind as I wrap up the last tracks for the new release
First time here, This sound Amazing!
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Thank you! I've been learning how y-tube works and can't wait to produce more regularly.
More, please? 😻
Beautiful! 👏👏👏👏
good morning everyone! wish everyone a great day! Cheers to happiness and success!
calming and relaxing, exactly what I need. Great music and video. I wish everyone reading this good health and success in their life.
You have a new friend. ❤❤
Thank you and the same to you indeed
"Ancient music.. then the obnoxious plink plonk plink plonk of pianos...
Nope! Took me right out of the mood!
Yes! discussions we have had here many times! I wondered, before the flood, back when Atlantis / Sumer were thriving, what type of instruments did they have? I see ancient paintings where kings / queens were holding what looked like laptops, so I had to decide. Then being a guitar player for decades and looking at all these guitars I have, another hard choice leaving them out. So both piano and guitar are quite limited.
A question listening to this is really awesome
May I have permission to use this music in my videos?
Hello, thank you and I appreciate your interest. I am sorry but not at this time as the music is part of another project. After my next release things may change. The next release called "Ten days in Sumer" which is around 80% complete. By the way, nice work on your videos!
Ooh, this isn't half bad. I feel inspired to write more lore for my universes!
Right on, do it up! I'm finishing work early so I can work on some new stuff too
@@AncientAmbience You got this!
@@lynixwolfyspade Its hard because I started another job in March. I crawl to the studio every night around midnight to write or fall to sleep., which ever happens first! :)
@@lynixwolfyspade I really need to quit one of my jobs but I feel blessed to have work in this economy. Someday
@@AncientAmbience Work hard and obtain the bag, but never forget your dreams!
So you build instruments and you built your computer set up? That's extremely impressive.
Ty. Sometimes when one can't afford what they really need the next best thing is to build it themselves. This is what drove me to start building instruments. As for PCs, I was building DAWs for resale in the 90s. 1996 to 2002 to be exact, then moved onto websites. Been building them for myself ever since.
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That's admirable, fam.
@@Guto_Loco_Gushek_Brasil Thanks. Its actually much fun being in a woodshop that can do most anything. I will place photos online soon, website, instagram, facebook. Both the home studio and the woodshop
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I'mma follow you on whatever social network you have. ☺️
@@Guto_Loco_Gushek_Brasil I will post links under songs once I have the other media sites loaded. TH-cam started recommending Gates of Assyria before I was even finished w my youtube channel. Caught me off guard! - lol. Now I'm trying to catch up while I release new material. work my other jobs. Thanks for the support
This is absolutely beautiful! I've been listening to this over and over for a week now - and no, I am not an obsessive person by any stretch.
Thank you. Means a lot.
This may be for Assyria but I'm expecting to see a sandworm or ornithopter on the horizon
Ty. You are the 2nd or 3rd person to mention Dune. Not sure if its a game or movie. I will listen to them later while I work.
Подобно первым лучам зари, эта музыка открывает вам глаза на новые обещания и на все чудеса природы. Вызывая невероятные силы, эти произведения трогают струны сердца, вызывают ностальгию и пробуждают любовь, ободранные жизни и оцепенение измученных стражников
Thank, you and agree. I believe we are learning from our past to evolve to where we are supposed to be. I try to remind even myself through music. I will remember your words while I work on the next project ~
@@AncientAmbience Thk you for your reply. As a musician myself, I am very sensitive to the power of words and sounds 🎹🎆
Fascinating and beautiful - but I hear that huge reverb far too often. To get a feel of ancient instruments, I'd like to hear what this music sounds like with a more natural 'room ambience'. They didn't always play in caves and churches!
Incantevole. Sensazioni e vertigini per la mente. Complimenti.
Thank you!
krása.....
Well done! I know what hard work goes into reproducing ancient instruments... Even if it's an activity that brings you joy, it takes real dedication and care. I'm really impressed by the diversity of your talents...
I'm fascinated by this ancient period as well, and experience dreamlike visions of these times off and on. I'm convinced there was a lot more going on in this region during that time than a bunch of patriarchal bronze age war lords flexing their muscles, indulging in blood baths, and having sex with everything that moves. 😛
Looking forward to hearing more from you in future.
Thank you. I'm an electric guitar builder mostly and I use some as MIDI triggers. I also built four harps modeled after King David's final harps. Designs can be seen on ancient coins found in Egypt. Posting images in the future.
In the music Badland.. did you use the Oud? 33:05
U se a custom / acoustic guitar retrofit with custom pickup to play Oud samples (actual recordings of Oud). I am a guitar player so this allows me to play the Oud using a guitar fingerboard. (I am preparing several new videos with this new setup including behind the scenes on how I built the guitar). Release of first video as soon as p[ossible.
@@AncientAmbience that was a true masterpiece!!
I love this! 23:37 mark is awesome. Excellent for writing stories by.
I thought so, too. Very deep.
do you got the name of the song?
He's right, Ed. You have some very inspired cinematic talent going for you. "Journey" is one of the tracks that really shows off some of your abilities.
You shouldn't have to be working so many hours every day outside your art. With your talent, you ought to be getting some paying gigs for your compositions. I'm working on a professional networking connection that might work well for you that I heard about from some of my friends at Cal Arts. You may already know about this group, but I'll be back when I have the name and link confirmed for you, just in case you don't already know about it. All we artists in the US face this dilemma of how to support ourselves and our families and still have all the precious time we need to develop and share our art. It shouldn't be this hard, and in some cultures in the past it seems they had better support systems going for artists like yourself. We do what we can. 💛
Everything has already been said❤️🌌🇵🇹
just heavenly ! helps me to stay focused while working ! thanks a lot !
where do you usually get your sounds from man, im i a music producer tryna explore to find new sounds and realsticness of all these intrigue me. beautiful mix by the way!
TY! I use sound libraries and samples from anyone who released old instrument sample sets. I also make a ton of my own. It took me years to collect / sort them all. I started back in 1997 while selling DAWs out of electronic musician mag. So many companies are awesome these days., I love them ALL. I'm putting their names in all the song credit sections. (next few days)
I was just reading in the back under advertising, I think if I mention software / hardware makers in the video texts its considered advertising?? and I need to notify y-tube that I am doing this. I will study it further and get back.
@@AncientAmbience appreciate the effort! I would love to know, im pretty sure it should be fine to put the names of it as long as you dont provide links i guess
Did you make this or compile it from other artists? Also could you add points to know what each song is called?
Hi there, I wrote and produced it all. I have decades worth of saved samples and musical instruments. I build electric guitars, harps, other stuff. I play anything with strings. I play piano and synths. I have another one hour piece underway. I just need to back away from some of my day job so I can produce faster.
Yes I will list individual song names with time stamps. I'm new as a artist on youtube and social media and am trying to learn it all as fast as I can. The traffic on my channel was unexpected and I wasn't ready. I'm staying focused on it on it now. Im trying to finish up a new instrument too
@@AncientAmbience that's really cool, may God be with you my friend. I'm actually a new film maker. I've been focusing on green screen work, with the end goal of within the next 2 years of putting together a film entirely in green screen that takes place during the Crusades. Thats how I came across your video. As I try and find music that matches well with the time and areas.
@@yearight1205 Very cool. So much can be told about those days. I am drawn to that time period, if there is such a thing. It seems as if the Crusades started 6000 years ago and never ended. Its luring, relaxing, compelling and 'dangerous'. I am always studying as far back as I can go and as a result more and more my music seems to land there. Curious to see what you produce
@@AncientAmbience you know my friend, what you wrote got me thinking. If you like rare and interesting things from the past, as well as the Middle East, although I am not a Muslim or from the religions that came before them (I am a Christian), the Middle East used to have legends that predate Islam, but which Islam echos about the lost city of Irem. I'll link you a TH-cam video of a guy discussing it. I always thought the idea was interesting, and it might inspire your work. I liked what I've heard from you so far. Hope at the very least you find this interesting. th-cam.com/video/7HnIFyO8AT8/w-d-xo.html
More of this! Other cultures other regions! Ancient and beautiful! I'd love to hear ancient Rome or Egypt, and maybe ancient Meso American or Native American.
Thanks for the comments and request. I have been archiving pieces related to ancient Americas and would love to try to build out a one hour release. Maybe next year at this time.
What are the names of the tracks please especially the last part.
I will name the songs soon I promise. The last one is an ancient harp that was sampled. I play the samples using a MIDI / electric guitar. I am doing another similar piece and filming the recording real time. When I upload the names I will notify you. I am also considering uploading the songs individually.
This is absolutely beautiful, perfect to stumble upon while I'm writing scenes that take place in a scorching ancient desert
It's give me good meditation
you know Ancient Ambience, I feel in today's troubled world, there are two things that really unite the masses... and those are soccer and music.
this production, "Gates of Assyria" is a good example. just listening has a calming effect... it's really truly a beautiful mix
Thanks, means alot
truly beautiful!
solid work, may i please use these songs in a vid im making? with credit to you onscreen and links in the description
Ty, Sorry for the delay. Summer work has me working doubles this year. I reached out to you I believe in an email message. Please check as Im not sure if it was you or not. E
@@AncientAmbience No problem! I don't think email is set up on this account for me - for what it's worth, my video this music would be in isnt monetized (though i may have a patreon set up one day, we'll see!)
Ed, I had to give my high respect to your compositions. This is music with a deep personality. Such music is able to touch hearts.
I'm thankfull to get the link from your son Cody, which is a high gifted knife maker.
Beautiful... Very soothing... Very dreamy... vision invoking of vast deserts and divine gypsies...
You brought me to tears with this. As an Assyrian, this in some way, has brought me closer to a spiritual connection with my heritage when I needed it most.
Thank you and your welcome my friend. I believe people should know more of our past so they may create a more perfect future.
I'm glad to see an Assyrian, your heritage is amazing and your future is stunning!
The original Assyrians were Pagan and worshiped the deity of the same name, Ashur. They were conquered and destroyed by the Babylonians. Everything ends for a reason. They were converted to Christianity in the first century AD.
Would you upload these tracks to Spotify? I resonate with "Hold Me" I cant stop listen to it. Thanks for your work.
Ty and yes, as soon as I can. I'm changing work priorities allowing me more time for music.
cowboy cody's dad
Lovely, the ethereal voices and zithers are enchanting!
Thanks Cody's dad. I love my bucksaw and firesteels.
Cody sent me
Phenomenal, if it's really done by you. It makes me nostalgic about the past that I never had and optimistic about the future that will never arrive, very otherworldly feeling. Keep at it, if you can - this stuff is quality and deserves recognition!
Thanks Dave. as weird as it may sound I study the past to help me make decision for the future. I have also been listening to and studying ancient music and instruments for maybe twenty years. When I write recently this is what seems to come out. I have 200 songs started and save something new every few days. I write to wind down every day. I am almost to the point where I can upload a new piece weekly.
Mainly I am a guitar player. Ive been playing for over 50 years. I had no lessons so first songs I played were originals. I write in all guitar genres. Synths and samplers were usually used in breaks and choruses but for ambient they are forefront. I trigger my samples with a Korg M1 and an Ibanez xing 2010 w a MC1 controller. Someday I'll make a video showing people how I do it.
@@dev4res Thanks for the comments, compliments and info! It's all inspiring to me. I travel back in time so I can study cultures, people, and musical instruments. I guess their music is rubbing off on me a little. Seriously, I do love all cultures, people, music and, musical instruments. The variation amazes me. I find Ambient is diverse in that way too. It is open-genre, open-culture, and seemingly timeless. Are we in the past, present or future? Maybe all three! All of that pushes me to write in this groove. I would love to do this full time.
Concepts - Life is funny how projects are started, abandon, then revisited for completion. For example, musically I sometimes take years off then create something that makes me wish I had stayed with it. I guess it comes down to life. People simply need to work for a living, and life can get in the way. TH-cam makes dreams possible though. One just needs to study and apply. Dust off that old guitar. It opens portals! Tonight I travel to East Mesopotamia. At 6:00pm I have music class and I can't be late! :)
@@AncientAmbience I look forward to your future creations, man. And my guitar will have to wait a little, because just the way you have your instruments - I have my brush and pen and they take me to amazing places as well. ;) Back to painting listening to your music! Cheers!
love the blend of ancient and modern... evocative and inspiring! looking forward to hearing more...
Thank you. When I write I get the vibe of the ancient past equals the distant future, and the distant future equals the ancient past. Full circle kind of thing
@@AncientAmbience "Everything that happens has happened before, and will happen again." ~ Ron Moore's 'Battlestar Galactica'
I have some questions for you, Ed, if that's ok. At 14:00 in the song "Two Doves," you use an instrument, the sound of which I found hard to recognize. At first I thought it sounded like some kind of horn I'd never heard before, but it was hard to tell exactly what it was. I have a degree in Ethnomusicology and performance from Calif Inst of the Arts from the 1970's, when awareness and study of so-called "world music" was just beginning, and a synthesizer wasn't much more than a big conglomerate of patch boards that had to be hand-patched like a telephone switchboard. So I am intrigued when I hear instruments that are new to me. I'm wondering if this is actually some kind of horn, or another instrument, or a sampled instrument that has been electronically altered. That's followed by a beautiful flute, and then some kind of bowed instrument I don't quite recognize starts at 16:45. Also wondering what the bowed fiddle is, as it was this type that I studied most while in school, across several cultures. Also, are any of these particular instruments ones that you made, or ones you collected?
Wondering also, are you sampling all of the instruments and performing them electronically on guitars, or are you playing some of the actual instruments yourself realtime onto some of the tracks?
Btw, "Two Doves" is a very lovely melody...
You mentioned making several King David harps. That's pretty darn awesome. Are any of them featured in any of these compositions? If so, can you say which ones? I'd like to hear what they sound like.
Thx, and all the best to you. Really enjoying your music a lot. Frissons all over the place! Your friends were right to push you onto the internet. You belong here, and your music definitely deserves to be heard.
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Thank you for all the kind words. I am well into the next release. Not sure when it will be complete as I'm working 2-3 jobs and I usually crawl into the studio. Hopefully in 2-3 weeks. INSTRUMENTS - no, I do not build all the instruments but I wish I could (maybe someday). I am a electric guitar builder. I build them from scratch. Several of those guitars I incorporated a MIDI pickup systems to trigger the samples. I also restored a Ibanez X-ING 2010 which is a dedicated MIDI trigger guitar. I bought that along with other MIDI gear from Michael Nesmith of the The Monkees back in the 2000s. I use them all because I use alt tuning a bunch. Sometimes I record faster when using a guitar over a piano trigger.
HARPS - I built maybe a dozen harps. First half dozen were prototypes which I scuttled for the next harp. The last three were keepers. I gave two away to close friends and kept one. All were modeled after what I learned later were harps designed by King David. He built harps his entire life, starting with deer antler and deer tendons as strings. He was the "Gibson/Fender" of 5000 years ago. It was called a "Kinnor." If you search "Kinnor harp ancient coin" you can get the just of it. I am using photos of it for the next several releases. Made of Cyprus, Olive Wood, Camel bone. I did not play/record it direct as I still had tuning issues so instead I sampled it and use it that way. It sounds unique yet similar to others. "Twang wobble". I am adding piezo sensors to it at the moment I also used it in reverse in several spots. I have around 200 songs started and it is being used more than once. Only having 1hr for Gates of Assyria only those tracks listed made the album. I am redoing the Kinnor at the moment for up coming pieces. I have a new harp in the works also, some other string inventions underway too.
SAMPLES - In 2017 I was involved in a car wreck where I was blasted. I didn't collect much in fact it didn't cover my medical bills. I had four busted fingers on my left hand which took me away from the guitar. Nearly 1 year I couldn't bare to play then the next 6mo I used the guitar as therapy. At the same time I updated myself on MIDI samplers and sample libraries. I also built 2-3 sampler PCs. I recorded many songs using only my right hand on piano as my left was n/a. I studied all library creators and love them all. I will list and give credits to them all hopefully when I take a well needed vacation. I purchased many packs and a Kemper back then. I think between my own sample libraries and purchased libraries I only have around 2TB but its still hard to manage. I focused on buying harps, flutes, percussion, vocal/voices.
TWO DOVES - I will need to load that song back up and look at the details but from when I remember I used five flute / horn / wind instruments rotating between them. Some I filter and stretch to make them more of a "support instrument" in the background. I also use them to hold the root note. I had a some odd Oboe samples but at the 16:45 even 18:45 mark, I'm pretty sure those are both wind instruments. As support I added strings and voices toward the end. This evening I will see if I can pinpoint instrument names. Ty for the interest. Building string / other instruments is one of my favorite things to do.
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Uh the First One! Wow!
4:51 love this piano melody
This is AWESOME!!!
Oh so this is all you? It's marvelous! Fantastic job!
Thank you! I've been a guitar player/song writer most my life but I listen to ambient music while I work, study, chill. Past few years I've been moving more and more into this genre. I find it quite luring. I also really like the ambient community too, it's.. peaceful. I look forward to ambient writing more and more. New material currently underway
@@AncientAmbience Your musical work is awesome, I'd recommend you to offer some tracks to games- and independent film makers, it's really good for ambient backgrounds, especially this one.
@@villebooks Thank you for the words of encouragement. I guess I should look into that more. I'm just so busy with my day jobs. It would be really nice to walk away from those to move into music full time for sure. Give the music quality time instead of midnight to 2am.
@@AncientAmbience Yeah I know, I'm a journalist, and have time for my own creative stuff only at nighttime 😅 Glad I found your channel, I've been spending a lot of time in the Middle East and love the instruments like the Oud, your arrangements and sounds you use let people dream of far places and ancient realms. Respect - keep it up.
Hey, wanted to say thanks for cool vibes, i've been listening to this when was working on 2 althistory maps related to Assyria, awesome music 😊
Way cool! I really enjoy studying this time in history, even before when possible. Map making in these areas sounds like fun
Please keep posting. Thank you.
Very epic
this needs to be on spotify PLEASE!
Promise! Upcoming I have time off of work. Spending much of that time on Spotify acct. and the new releases.
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