The Seljuks - Epic Music

You can buy this track and more of my music here: Music and vocals by Farya Faraji, part of the lyrics by Omar Khayyam. With this track, I was inspired to make a fusion of Turkish and Iranian musical traditions to represent the Seljuk Empire of the Middle-Ages: a Turko-Persian state founded by Oghuz Turks, which used Persian language and culture as its foundational elements, and ruled over large swaths of the Middle-East, namely over Iran and Anatolia. Please keep in mind that though many aspects of this song are applicable to the era, this is a fusion of modern Turkish and Iranian music and by no means meant to be a historical recreation from the era. The musical element is centered around the music of Sufi mystics: Muslims who utilise music as a means of expression to be closer to God through the use of Zikr; ritualistic musical ceremonies where they enter a feeling of trance. Drums such as the daf and bendhir, used here, will provide a str