Syriana are an interesting project released by Real World Records. Here’s the back story, courtesy of the label’s Bandcamp site:
“In 2010 Syriana’s album The Road to Damascus presented a musical reflection by Nick Page & Bernard O’Neill of their take on the geopolitical landscape surrounding Syria at the time. Sadly their assertions that a third cold war was being initiated in that region were proved to be true and the conflict and upheaval that followed destroyed much of the rich cultural heritage of the region and dispersed millions of its people.
Now in 2023 the new Syriana album 1325 Ibn Battutah plots the three decades that a lone traveller journeyed through known world, from Morocco to Syria, Turkmenistan, India, Africa and Spain and once more home to Tangiers. Sadly Nick Page passed away before its completion but it will be released later this year.”
