The music of Ancient, Inc., is an ethno-(industrial, electronic and experimental) music that combines our love of middle-eastern music and Moroccan culture with experimental recording methods and deep sound manipulation.

The music of Ancient, Inc, is real - moving and emotional. The songs are created with real ethnic instruments including gumbri, violin, djembe and other stringed Arabic instruments. Found objects add special sounds, and samples are manipulated and mangled. Finally, electronic synths, beats and studio tricks warp the sounds for your contented ears.

Real location recordings made by the band uncover the actual life, grit and sand. This texture echoes how we tweaked the knobs on the music to produce our own fractured take on Arabic music.

Ancient, Inc., is Inspired by the music of Coil, Zoviet France, Muslimgauze, and others in the electronic and industrial vein. Additionally, location recordings of the people of the desert, along with Amr Diab and other North African performers classic and new give insight into the magic of Arabic music.

Ancient, Inc., has members from the band Khamsa Khala which attained notoriety worldwide with the release "All Rites Reversed."

Pride of the Charmoota

The latest release by Ancient, Inc., is titled "Pride of the Charmoota. 13 tracks of electronic and ethnic instruments warped for your pleasure. 2 tracks include singing while the others have samples or are instrumental.

Inspirations range from Arabic mythology mixes to modern day issues. Track listing with some samples and descriptions:

1. Sami Al-Hajj - Inspired by a headline I read on الجزيرة نت

2. Abu Zaid - One of the leading histographers and philosophers of ancient Arabic times.

3. Sticky Sarha - Sarha is the Arabic word for traveling freely without constraint.

4. Shining Beacon of Hope

5. Tahrir Square - Several of the songs were written during the times of Egypt and other countries initial rebellions.

6. Hatem's Offer - Visitors come from the desert with thier camels. A family does not have enough to feed the strangers, so a boy, Hatem, tells his mother to sell him into the slave trade for 2 of their camels so they can be fed to the strangers.

7. Eonile - An ancient river that ran through Egypt before the Mediterranean was formed.

8. Feral Dune

9. River Bend's Gator Glyph - Memories of an Egyptian temple built to worship a great lizard

10. Route to Sand

11. Ro'ya - A dream or premonition.

12. Reports from the Bank

13. The Bride and the Purchase