The Epic Music Series

What is Farya Faraji’s Epic Music project? Not cinematic, film soundtrack music, but authentic, researched traditional music about the epic narrative traditions of the world. The strong association between the term “epic music” and a Hollywood, sweeping orchestral sound is exactly why Farya Faraji began the project in the first place: to restore the original meaning of the term.

The series draws on the living traditions of diverse cultures to explore their epic and narrative repertoires, allowing each musical language to speak through its own instruments, textures, vocal styles, and inherited aesthetics, without cinematic or film-scoring stylisations.

By employing the term “Epic Music,” whilst rejecting cinematic film-soundtrack sonorities, the project introduces broad, mainstream audiences to traditional music through a term they may initially associate with cinematic spectacle, gradually expanding the public’s tastes.

The Epic Music Series stands as a clear expression of the philosophy at the heart of Faraji’s work: that traditional music, when approached with authenticity and cultural grounding, possesses more than enough power to captivate global audiences without mainstream, cinematic modifications to render them “more accessible.”