Ancient Rec. The Ancient Brotherhood of Paranoise : Private Power (US,1999)**°
This item does not particularly combines Middle Eastern influences, but most some Moroccan, Pakistanian and many more World Fusion influences combined with rock with a progressive association because of its approach. There's some aggression in the instrumentation in the same way punk became aggressive because of the same reason of political disbelieves. The singing however is not aggressive at all. But some political consciousness is tried to be provoked through fusing different musical approaches and by the texts warning us better to be aware of the danger of ruling "New World Order" ideas. The combination of the World music samples are bend fluently and most lively by violin parts and by spontaneously played more heavy rock rhythms. In the songs where samples are not used you can hear how much these samples are contributing, and how good they are enriching the music, almost as if the samples work as extra instrumentalists live in studio. Usually I rarely liked the use of samples which are often used to work away dead moments of low inspiration (,really trying to bring new life and inspiration, where in that way the final effects of them are easily forgotten after seeing through their lack of breading inspiration). But this groups however does succeeds in its use of sampling, thus enriching the ideas they already had.
Later project Mawwal see here
