# Instrumental Tales from an Imagined Desert

*Dune Riders*

By [Skeeboo](https://paragraph.com/@skeeboo) · 2025-06-27

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Dear friends,

I wanted to share with you a new EP I just finished, called [_Dune Riders_](https://www.submithub.com/link/skeeboo-dune-riders).  
It’s a collection of five instrumental pieces, all built from the same seed: an old track called [_Scheherazade_](https://skeeboo.bandcamp.com/track/scheherazade).

The original was just a small vignette for oud, zither, and flute exploring the A harmonic minor scale and this kind of Middle Eastern storytelling feeling. I didn’t know it at the time, but that little melody had more to say. So I started revisiting it, reworking it, and letting it evolve into new directions.

Over time, each remix turned into a kind of scene, a part of a larger journey. A caravan crossing a desert. A dance beneath the stars. A mirage. A lost oasis. A moment of silence under the midnight sky. That’s what _Dune Riders_ became to me: a slow and cinematic travelogue through imagined landscapes. 

As always, thanks for walking this path with me, even when the road is made of sand and sound.

Warmly,  
Skeeboo

  

[![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/b11bdbd9935c97e192e8a9d94b45658c.jpg)](https://www.submithub.com/link/skeeboo-dune-riders)

Available [on every streaming platform](https://www.submithub.com/link/skeeboo-dune-riders) and as a digital download [on Bandcamp](https://skeeboo.bandcamp.com/album/dune-riders), here's what you'll find inside:

*   [Dune Riders](https://www.submithub.com/link/skeeboo-dune-riders) - is a steady, cinematic ride through endless dunes, with echoes of zither and ney wrapped in downtempo rhythms. Built around a reimagining of the _Scheherazade_ motif from a previous composition, it mixes Middle Eastern melodies with a laid-back groove that feels like the slow travel under the sun of a caravan in the sand
    
*   [Silken Veil](https://skeeboo.bandcamp.com/track/silken-veil) - The caravan stops, the night falls, and veils start to dance in the wind. You’re not moving, but things are still unfolding: campfire light, soft fabrics catching the breeze, stories exchanged in whispers.
    
*   [Mirage Unfolding](https://skeeboo.bandcamp.com/track/mirage-unfolding) - You think you see something real on the horizon… but it keeps changing shape. That tension between what we chase and what we actually find is what inspired this piece.
    
*   [Phantom Oasis](https://skeeboo.bandcamp.com/track/phantom-oasis) - inspired by the feeling you get when you wake up from a dream you didn’t want to leave. You might think you’ve found what you were chasing, but it flickers and fades.
    
*   [Sands at Midnight](https://skeeboo.bandcamp.com/track/sands-at-midnight) - Enjoy a moment to sit with the silence before the next story begins.

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*Originally published on [Skeeboo](https://paragraph.com/@skeeboo/instrumental-tales-from-an-imagined-desert)*