Here's a cut that fuses Eastern and Western modalities. This cut starts with strummed acoustic 12-string guitars atop an active bed of Iraqi talking drums, tablas and a pad of bowed bass dobro. @:08, an urgent Western string arpeggio enters, accompanied @:18 by a Middle Eastern-tinged string figure and building percussion, which create more suspense until a climax @:29 reduces the mix to percussion only. @:39 we hear the string figure soloed, which leads back to the main mix @:44. Brings to mind a hybrid of Middle Eastern Pop and an almost neutral, matter-of-fact news feel.