Middle East Essentials - String Company

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

Turkish string sections are known to be some of the best in the world. Their precise sound and feel are like no others and add the Classical-Arabic sound that is so familiar within contemporary Middle Eastern music.

For this pack we teamed-up with Istanbul composer and string arranger Samet Uras. Together with his amazing string musicians, we recorded this rare and unusual pack.