Middle East Essentials - Guitars

The Middle East Essentials series by Gio Israel sets the goal of bringing together Middle Eastern masters and prodigies, capturing the most diverse, high-quality, and unique musical material. Making ancient music, sounds and instruments accessible through state-of-the-art sound sampling.

In this pack we explore contemporary, electric Middle Eastern guitars, bringing out the spicy edge of Middle Eastern sounds.

We recorded the Turkish ‘Baglama’ and electric guitars played by the very gifted Omri Zelig. Over the course of many hours we recorded various styles and rhythms, making this pack accessible to as many genres of music production as we could. The Baglama (also known as ‘Saz’) has Persian/Turkish origins and is commonly used in Ottoman classical music, Turkish folk, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, and Armenian music and in areas of Syria, Iraq and the Balkan countries.

We hope you’ll enjoy this one.