This is one of the earliest works of tape music. This dude took a wire recorder from the office of a radio station in Cairo and went out into the streets to see what inspired him. He encountered a ceremony, called zaar, a type of public exorcism, and recorded the voices. He then returned to the station and started messing around with the recording, using reverb, echo chambers and voltage controllers.
The result was this creepy, haunting two minute piece. I listen to it once in awhile, kind of amazed that this came out during World War II. It sounds both ancient and of its time. Old. Mysterious. Scary. Like the soundtrack for the people who opened King Tut's tomb.
I'm thankful it doesn't go on for twenty minutes; I would probably be hiding under my bed, willing it to go away.
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