“Across history… humanity survives through compassion.”

This set is a pilgrimage through time — a walk across the bones of the Earth, guided only by drums and memory.

We begin in darkness, where the first civilisations breathe themselves awake. Sumer, Egypt, Indus… the world still soft, still forming, speaking in flutes and whispers of forgotten gods. Then the fire of Greece, Thrace, Macedonia, Rome — the age where humans learned to name courage, to argue with the sky, to build identity from chaos and stone.

The seas open next. Ships groan, winds hum, and the Mediterranean becomes a heartbeat — Phoenicians, Carthage, Minoans, Berbers — traders of stories, carriers of light.

The North arrives in thunder. Scythians on horseback, Slavs with their raw chants, Bulgarians with sharp voices of the mountains, Vikings with ice in their breath. The rhythm thickens, becomes a warrior’s march.

Then the empires of fire rise — Ottoman, Persian, Byzantine, Mughal, Chinese, Japanese — a world blooming in silk, strings, temples, and poetry. After them, the Americas lift their sun drums and sky flutes, reminding us of wisdom carved into mountains and stars.

Finally comes the modern world: metal, machines, digital pulse. The human story accelerating, reinventing, forgetting, remembering.

And then… silence.
A single heartbeat.
A soft voice inside the noise.

A reminder that civilisations rise and fall, but humanity survives only through compassion. A prayer for every innocent caught in today’s conflicts — Gaza, and every forgotten corner where someone’s child is afraid of the night.

This set is not just music.
It’s a testament.
A wish.
A heartbeat offered to the world.

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1. OPENING — The Awakening of the First Civilisations (Atmospheric, Mystical)

Civilisations covered:

• Sumerians (Mesopotamia)

• Ancient Egypt

• Indus Valley

• Old Persia

Description:

The stage opens in darkness.

A low drone emerges, like the rumble of the Earth forming itself.

Ancient flutes, primal drums, whispers in forgotten languages.

Slowly, the sun of Egypt rises in sound — frame drums, desert winds, temple chants.

Musical style: Ambient world fusion → slow tribal → cinematic Egyptian percussion.

Purpose: Establish origin. Create ancient mystique. A universe is being born.

2. THE AGE OF HEROES — Philosophy, Poetry & Empires

Civilisations covered:

• Ancient Greece

• Thrace

• Macedonia

• Rome

Description:

The beat grows steadier as Greece emerges — lyres, choirs, and heroic cadence.

You flow into Thracian rhythms (very connected to your own roots).

Macedonian war drums thunder.

Roman horns and marching rhythms build tension and power.

Musical style: Melodic electronic textures, reworked folk rhythms, battle drums.

Purpose: Movement from mysticism to human structure — philosophy, art, the birth of identity.

3. THE SEAFARERS — Traders, Navigators, Carriers of Fire

Civilisations covered:

• Phoenicians

• Carthage

• Minoans

• Cyprus

• North African Berber tribes

Description:

Water sounds. Ships creaking.

A heartbeat-like drum begins, then bright Eastern Mediterranean scales, female vocal loops, and complex rhythms.

This is the sound of oceans connecting continents.

Musical style: Organic house, Afro-Med fusion, tribal percussion with nautical motifs.

Purpose: Showcase the world in movement — exchange, travel, cultural blending.

4. THE STEPPE AND THE SWORD — Northern & Eastern Echoes

Civilisations covered:

• Scythians

• Slavs

• Old Bulgarian Empire

• Vikings

• Rus’ Kingdoms

Description:

The energy thickens.

Horse-hoof percussion.

Flutes of the steppe.

Deep throat chants rise like ghosts from frozen plains.

Bulgarian vocals add sharp, beautiful dissonance.

Nordic horns cut through with raw power.

Musical style: Driving tribal techno, Eastern European folk-tech, Nordic chants blended with progressive beats.

Purpose: A shift into darker, stronger, warrior energy.

5. THE EMPIRES OF FIRE — South, East & Middle Worlds

Civilisations covered:

• Ottoman Empire

• Safavid Persia

• Byzantium

• Mughal India

• China (Tang & Han dynasties)

• Japan (Heian era)

Description:

Rich strings.

Ottoman ney flutes.

Persian santur weaving like silver.

Byzantine choirs for a dramatic drop.

Then a burst into Mughal tabla, Chinese guzheng patterns, or Japanese taiko thunder.

Musical style: Deep Oriental house, downtempo fusion, orchestral electronic.

Purpose: The sound turns grand, exotic, sensual — the height of art, architecture, poetry.

6. THE GOLDEN AMERICAS — Civilisations of the Sun & Stars

Civilisations covered:

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

• Native North American nations

Description:

Flutes like wind over mountains.

Panpipes.

Earth drums.

Mayan ritual rhythms.

Echoing chants across vast jungles and deserts.

Musical style: Organic house, tribal downtempo, shamanic techno.

Purpose: Connects ancient world wisdom from the West to the global story.

7. THE MODERN EMPIRES — Industrial, Digital, Global

Civilisations covered:

• European Renaissance

• Industrial Britain

• Post-Soviet East

• The modern global world

Description:

Metallic percussion.

Mechanical rhythms.

Industrial textures morph into modern electronica.

Technology meets tradition — the sound of a world reinventing itself.

Musical style: Melodic techno → progressive house.

Purpose: Transition from the ancient past to the world we live in now.

8. THE FINAL ACT — The World in Conflict, the Call for Peace

Description:

Everything drops into near-silence.

A single heartbeat bass.

Music: Michael Jackson “They Don’t Care about us” x INIKO Jericho remix

“They Don’t Care About Us” × “Jericho” – VISUAL DIRECTION

1. OPENING VISUALS — Innocence Before the War

Soft female harmony / child’s voice.

Visuals:

• Children in Gaza flying kites by the beach
• Girls laughing in school uniforms
• Little boys playing football in the narrow streets
• A father carrying his daughter on his shoulders
• A mother baking bread in a clay oven
• Sunset over Gaza’s sea (warm golden light)
• Olive trees swaying

Tone:
Pure humanity.
Softness.
Lives that existed before the world broke.

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2. SHIFT — The Fall of Innocence

Music begins to darken.

Visuals:

• Shuttered shops
• Broken toys in dust
• Abandoned shoes
• Smoke rising in the distance
• Ruined homes with clothes still hanging
• Mothers holding their children tightly
• A child looking out from behind a cracked wall

Emotion:
Loss.
Fear.
The quiet moments of destruction that say everything.

Then the message:

“Across history, civilisations rose and fell —

but humanity survives through compassion.

Tonight we honour every culture, every land, every soul.

And we offer a prayer for protection, dignity, and peace for all civilians in today’s conflicts —

from Gaza to every corner of the world where innocence suffers.

May music remind us that we are one beating heart.”

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Purpose:

The message is unity. Humanity. Protection of the innocent.

A call for peace in a time of chaos.

THE CONCEPT

“A journey through the music of ancient civilisations — from the first drumbeat of humanity to the world we live in today — ending with a prayer for peace.”