>>5490906>It's interesting to note that throughout the song, you hear what appears to be Arabic/Muslim music in the background. Could this be a subtle hint that Gura is Indonesian? Related to Anya, like many believe?What you consider purely Arabic/Muslim music has been the shared music of the Mediterranean region for a very, very long time. It kinda predates islam or Arabs, or even us Slavs. The point is similar instruments (the same instruments really) which are of remotest antiquity have been played across the Mediterranean for thousands upon thousands of years reaching back to the Neolithic. When you add the jihad against Europe in the Middle Ages and beyond it's plain that music will cross cultures. One of our Croatian elite guards which was sent to Vienna to crush a popular rebellion back in the 18th century for instance used Turkish sounding (according to the Austrians) marching band which effectively introduced these melodies to their popular culture. These people, my people, were anything but Muslim. They were fanatical Catholics. At that point we were at war with the Ottomans for some 300 years.
Even what we could consider Turkish music leans very heavily on Anatolian, ergo Greek and Byzantine, melodies and instruments - like the gusle or gajde. I don't even know how they call them, or the English words for them, but these are absolutely ancient. As in "They were old when the Illiad was sung" old.
It's amusing to see the utter confusion, or rather the sheer ignorance of Americans when they talk about things they know nothing about. The reason you associate these instruments and sounds with Arabs and Islam is purely because of media representations and because that's their most notable music, but neither they nor us Meds came up with them. They're inherited from older civilizations and... well, no civilization. I cannot stress enough how primal and old it is. There's a range these instruments can do, and that range will inevitably sound like it does, and because of the above mentioned you associate it exclusively with Arabs and islam, which is incorrect.
