composer who lives in the clouds making music for birds (and games and animation)! ๐ต๐ญ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Ooh...
That intro is painful to watch. I mentally tag this sorta music more as "general desert trope" than actually representative of any cultures... Now to watch the rest of this.
oh i didnt even know you posted about this, its a really good video and im happy more people here are getting to see it/understand why orientalism is so upsetting (i posted as well like right after you lol)
yeah! it's something i'm always thinking about like, it's so prevalent everywhere that it's easy to get desensitized to it, and not just "arabic" music but like... 'cultural' shortcuts used across all kinds of traditional musics
Exactly! It's something ive experienced a lot with western interpretation of mainly southeast Asian music being basically completely erased and replaced, so seeing people talk about it honestly has been such an important feeling