| 1. Noura Noura |
| 2. Haramt Ahibbak |
| 3. Anta Oumri |
| 4. Mawood |
| 5. Weili Weili |
| 6. Yassmin |
| 7. Mabrouk Alek |
| 8. Adawar |
| 9. Mabrouk Alek |
| 10. Ya Wahachni - Samir Siblini |
Belly Dance,Various Artists,Sonodisc,Belly Dancing,Int'l & World Music,Middle East
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Putumayo Presents: Turkish Groove
Various Artists Manufacturer: Putumayo World Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000E6ESP8 Release Date: 2006-03-21 |
Tracks:
- Kirmizi Biber - Bendeniz
- Kalmadi - Mustafa Sandal
- Buda - Sertab
- Pis Pisla - Nilgul
- Dudu (Ozgur Buldum Remix) - Tarkan
- Sinanay - Gulseren
- Kusursuzsun (Acoustic Version) - Emrah
- Ayrilik Gunu - Goksel
- Oha Falan Oldum Yani - Tugba Ekinci
- Atiyosun - Nazan Oncel
- Sanima Inanma - Sezen Aksu
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In 2005, Putamayo's A&R man, Jacob Edgar, traveled to Turkey, a country that straddles Europe and Asia, hung out in its exotic nightclubs, and produced this compilation. If you were expecting to hear some belly-dancing, snake-charming tunes, this CD's 11 tracks will quickly disabuse you of those cliches. These selections exhibit a funky fusion of central Asia, the Balkans, and the Middle East that also includes rap, hip-hop, electronica, and even suggests Ballywood. Turkey's boy idol Tarkan serves up a spicy fluted-and-strings track on "Dudu," equally matched by Mustafa Sandal's Flamenco-flavored heartthrob number, "Kalmadi," with an evocative stringed instrument called a kanun. The ladies also get their groove on, as evidenced by Sertab Erener's whispery soprano on "Buda" and Nazan Oncel's New York-style rap, "Atiyosun." Turkey is an impressive cultural blend of East and West, and nothing signifies that blend better than its pop music. --Eugene Holley, Jr.Album Description
In 2005, Putumayo's head of A&R, Jacob Edgar traveled to Istanbul to immerse himself in Turkey's culture and discover its music. Though its cities are filled with the ancient architecture of its long history, Turkey is considered one of the most modern Muslim countries in the world. This cultural juxtaposition is most evident in Turkey's contemporary pop music scene, where classical traditions and instrumentation blend with sophisticated global pop and dance music. Turkish Groove, reflects this unique musical mosaic and joins the successful Groove series.Much like their Western pop counterparts, Turkish stars push the limit of their society's standards of acceptability. As a result, Turkish pop music is crossing over to audiences outside Turkey, making inroads into the contemporary scenes of Europe and Latin America though remaining largely unknown in other parts of the world.
As Turkish pop takes its place on the international stage, its fusions of cultural traditions and modern techniques play to an ever expanding audience. Putumayo's Turkish Groove hopes to serve as an introduction to the contemporary sounds of this culturally rich country.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this CD will be donated to Karnaval Kid in support of their efforts to improve childcare and education for disadvantaged children in Turkey.
Customer Reviews:
Turkish Delight.......2007-07-02
It begins with Bendeniz's rousing "Kirmizi Biber",a catchy song in which a woman complains about her lover's neglect. Mustafa Sandal's "Kalmadi" and Gulseren's "Sinanay" (the latter is a humorous song about giving directions to Istanbul) both deflty weave Latin and Turkish rhythms. Sertab,who looks like a Turkish Trudie Styler (Sting's wife),sings the beautiful Asian-flavored "Buda"...a hypnotic song about finding nirvana like the Buddha. Though Turkey is predominantly Muslim, this song shows that Eastern&New Age spirituality have found inroads in that country bridging Europe and Asia. Turkish heartthrob Tarkan has the catchy "Dudu" (Ozgur Buldum Remix). Think of an Anatolian Justin Timberlake with an exotic,amazing sound and lots of talent. Emrah's "Kusursuzsun (Acoustic Version)" is a memorable song in its simplicity;it also shows how Turkish differs from Arabic. In fact,Turkish is linguistically related to Hungarian (Magyar) and Korean. Goksel's "Ayirilik Gunu" blends Bollywood and retro flavors. Tugba Ekinci's rousing "Oha Falan Oldum Yani",with its exotic instrumentation,is a passionate plea to a cheating lover;Ekinci shows that she has more than sex appeal,but amazing vocals as well. Nazam Oncel's "Atiyosun" is a poetic song about everyday life.
"Turkish Groove" is a compilation of appetizers of Turkish music;now I'd like to explore the music of Tarkan,Sertab,and Goksel further. "Turkish Groove" is a perfect introduction to Turkish music in its variety.It's a fun musical excursion to Istanbul and Topkapi
Not Your Daddy's Groove Album...Though I Wish it Was!.......2007-04-14
Having said that, the (Turkish pop) music on this CD is enjoyable. The music is up-temple and you could probably dance to it - if you try real hard. Just be aware, it's not like some of the other CDs in Putumayo's Groove CD series.
It Grows on You.......2007-04-08
The only reason I gave this CD 4 starts is because of the very few hip hop areas, but even those are begining to grow on me.
Tantalizing Turkish Musical Potpourri .......2007-04-07
We were pleased with the choices selected and have listened to the CD multiple times.
Buy the music. Hear the music. Love the music. .......2006-10-25
Not to mention incredible music.
Ah, the music.. Until you've been at a traditional peasant wedding on the Aegean, or to a nightclub in Van where the Kurds are breaking it down the Old School Anatolian way with a traditional eight piece band, well.. you just haven't been there. You haven't really heard it. And you can't know what you're missing. No CD will replicate those sort of experiences.
Not even this one. But it comes sort of close. This disk isn't old school like the music I heard the above mentioned places. But it catches some of that same energy and soul (NB: not soul as in Marvin Gaye, but soul as in Mehmet the Conquerer & the Book of Dede Korkut.) It's froth off the top of the rich Turkish pop scene. Music that's a fusion of the traditional with international pop influences.
And contrary to our Turkish friend from Izmir commenting here, I have to say that it does make sense. It's a nice melange of tunes. A taste of modern Turkey. Afyet olsun, as they say. For someone who's never heard anything from Turkey other than maybe Tarkan, this will prove a tasty morsel. BTW, Tarkmeister's a Turkish version of Ricky Martin, only a hundred thousand nintey nine million times as good. He is the only artist with two songs on this mix.
My favorite tune here is Sinanay, a folk cover, with a great irrepressible bass line. It opens with a Latin American dude asking for directions "Donde esta Istanbul? Estoy perdido aqui!" to which the Turkish girl goes "Istanbul?" And then breaks into poetic song telling the poor goofball how to get there. Just çok comik & wicked güzel, chooch.
Atiyosun deserves special mention, as well. The lyrics- as well as I can gather with my 500 word Turkish vocabulary- are a girl telling a guy to get lost. It's bracingly laconic, relentlessly catchy.
Those are two highlights. Know that there is nary a bad track on this thing.
So buy this disk, slap it on during your next party, and everyone will dig it, I promise you. Your parents, super hip acquintances, dorky friends, annoying roomate, maiden aunt.. Everybody. Why? Because it's groovy. It's Turkish. And - Need I say it? - like all things groovy & Turkish, it rocks.
PS. And be sure to go to Turkiye someday, if only in your dreams.
The Muslims won't hurt you. And more than a few Turks will welcome, even embrace you. You will always savour & never regret it.
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The Belly and the Beat
Turbo Tabla Manufacturer: Cia - Copeland Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000JBWW92 Release Date: 2006-11-07 |
Tracks:
- Turbo Tabla 4
- Tahteeb Diesel
- Stonecutter
- Imlal Ilaqdah
- Irrouh
- Sanadi
- Indiarab
- Saidi Song
- Samai Aryan
- Ashoof Jamal
- Naseeb
- Multiple East
- Zaarathaustra
- Banaat Turbo
Customer Reviews:
fun.......2007-02-21
Funky Blue Belly Beatz.......2007-02-21
Music, no matter what kind (if it is the kind you like), speaks to the soul. It is as if the music becomes the language your soul and spirit speaks... and it is the rhythm of your heartbeat. When something speaks so specifically, it as if I become my total self again. Such joy, reminds me of who I really am! I wonder if others feel this way. Gotta be.
Now, my top 5 favorite kind of music go exactly in this order:
1. Belly dance music
2. Bhangra & Chutney Soca
3. Salsa & Merengue
4. Zydeco
5.Soca
6. Reggaeton
7. Ghazals
(If you don't know the meaning of any of these terms, you can look it/them up. It'd take too long to explain )
I mean, of course I like more, but these musics would "turn me on", if you will. It is directly related to the dance moves induced as well. But more importantly, I think it is about an aural aesthetic; what one finds beautiful. I do believe it is also much related to one's ethnicity and perhaps cultural memories -- from this life, and perhaps ancestral memories, or even those memories from the collective unconscious. As I said, in the case of Turbo Tabla, it feels like someone whispering in your ear in only a language you can understand... speaking right into your brain. It sounds just as sweet as hearing your own name whispered in your ear. They say a person's name is the sweetest ever word-sound to them. (So fellas, if you don't already know... if a way to a man's heart is through his belly, then surely a way to some women's hearts, is through her ear.) Total erotica! The biggest sex organ is between the ears, yes? It all starts in the brain.
But, I digress. LOL!
I have a question for you all. Do you think one's ethnicity or ethnicities (in the case of us "mixed" folk -- and lots of us are, inevitably... even if we think we are purely one thing or another... but that is yet another tributary of discussion)... does one's ethnicity influence the way a person looks at the world aesthetically? Is what one finds beautiful, influenced by one's background(s). I believe that it is. I'd like to hear what someone else thinks. Now, I'm not speaking of aesthetics on the surface -- and that may sound like an oxymoron, yet it is not. I am referring to those things which appeal to you at a more gut level; an instinctual level. Some people may believe that that the business of what one finds beautiful or appealing, through the senses, a shallow business. I beg to differ.
I think what one choses to wear -- clothes, jewelry, adornment... how you wear your hair... how one choses to decorate one's environment... the kinds of food & music one likes... certainly to whom one is attracted... our interests... environments that makes one feel at home...fabrics... colors... scents we wear... scents we have around us... what music we like to hear... what languages sound sweet in our ears...all are influenced by our ancestral memories. These are the things which make us feel at home, cared for.... which make us love and feel loved... which makes our hearts feel more alive... which makes our souls soar... which touch us in places we never knew existed or had forgotten........ yes, I think these things aour a part of our collective unconscious.
Nonethless, for moments today, I felt like I could fly :-)
My heart danced.
*By the way, my favorite cuts so far on that CD:
#1 "Turbo Tabla 4 (Karim Nagi) --Drum anthem #4 in Turbo Tabla Tribal Lovers Series
#2 "Tahteeb Diesel" (Nagi, Ruskin) -- A southern Egyptian Cane Dance in a Detroit parking lot
#4 "Imlal Ilaqdah" (Traditional Arab & Andalusian) -- Fill the glasses up and let me drink til dawn.
#7 "Indiarab" (Karim Nagi) -- Belly Bhangra
This is part of the meaning of love, I say.
great.......2007-01-19
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Galactic Caravan: Intergalactic Bellydance
Various Artists Manufacturer: Mondo Melodia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002XEE1Q Release Date: 2004-09-14 |
Tracks:
- Habet (Galactic Caravan's Intergalactic Belly Mix) - Hakim
- Soul Talk
- Tranceceiver
- Nomadic Transit
- Star Kids
- Voice From The Moon
- No Gravity
- Ghib An Aynayya (Galactic Caravan's DNR Transofrming Belly Mix) - Nawal Al Zoghbi
- Hanina (Galactic Caravan's Celestial Belly Mix) - Steve Stevens
- Om Om
Customer Reviews:
Smooth music.......2007-05-06
It's okay, but doesn't sound like bellydance to me.......2007-02-18
Galactic Goosebumps..........2007-01-30
As A Dancer.......2007-01-04
Great belly dance music.......2006-11-04
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Turkish Bellydance: Desert Night Dance
Huseyin & Gunay Turkmenler Manufacturer: Arc Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000JN1C Release Date: 1999-08-10 |
Tracks:
- Desert Night Dance
- Once I Had A Darling...
- Spoon Dance
- All You Stars...!
- Must Be A Gypsy
- Dance Music From Nihavent
- Sugar Boy
- Dance Music In 'Rast Makam
- Fire Dance Music
- Folk Song And Dance From Ankara
- Dance From Thrace
Customer Reviews:
Another Ouzo, please...........2007-02-22
More than get up and move.........2007-01-05
Energetic music!.......2006-11-06
guaranteed Turkish style.......2006-05-27
Track six, "Nihavent oyun havasi," is perfect for any dancer who needs pacing because the tempo is moderate, neither too fast nor too slow, while the overall mood is hypnotic, though more varied than in the first track "Desert Night Dance" which has more steady mystique, even in the fast part, and hence is excellent for dramatic veil work. Also the Nihavent music makes good use of zilya (finger cymbals) in a way that almost focuses the music around this small percussion.
The final track "Trakya ciftetellisi" is a real sweat drencher at eight minutes and twenty seconds. Not for beginners, it could leave even the most advanced dancer breathless but ecstatic!
It got a beginner belly dancing!.......2005-01-06
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Belly Dance Instrumentals
Chalf Hassan & Emad Sayyeh Manufacturer: Easydisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000JBFO Release Date: 1999-06-15 |
Tracks:
- The Night Is Beautiful - Emad Sayyeh
- Counting - Chalf Hassan
- The Music Of Semiramis - Emad Sayyeh
- Counting: Thirty-Three - Chalf Hassan
- Move And Continue To Move - Emad Sayyeh
- The Dance Of The Soothsayer - Emad Sayyeh
- El-Andaloussi - Chalf Hassan
- To The Beauty Of Cleopatra - Emad Sayyeh
- Shelha - Chalf Hassan
- Belly Dance In The Jungle - Emad Sayyeh
- Arab Rhythm - Chalf Hassan
Customer Reviews:
As A Dancer.......2007-01-04
great music, great price........2005-09-29
Good!.......2004-05-26
Don't waste your money!.......2003-11-08
A Pleasant Surprise.......2003-08-17
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Sabla Tolo, Vol. 2: Further Journeys into Pure Egyptian Percussion
Hossam Ramzy Manufacturer: Arc Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00009MGRB Release Date: 2003-08-05 |
Tracks:
- Wana Be-ied Annak (When I am not Near You)
- Harrira & Basboosa
- My Brazilian Pearl
- El Esma Wel Ma-soom (Our Fate)
- Amar El Sahara (The Moon of the Sahara)
- Wady Samba Ala El Malfuf (Samba over Malfuf)
- Halloween
- Oyoun El Fallaha (The Eyes of a Fallaha)
- Ya Gama-a (Calling all the Group)
- Hawary Al Qahira (The Back Streets of Cairo)
- La' Bel Hadawa (No, Cool and Gently, Please)
- Ya Sha-eyya (You Naughty, Playful Girl)
- Rakataka
Customer Reviews:
Addicted!! :).......2006-04-20
If Sabla Tolo (1) didn't exist Sabla Tolo 2 would get 4 Stars.......2006-02-22
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I Wanna See You Belly Dance
The Red Elvises Manufacturer: Shoobah-Doobah ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000006Q3J Release Date: 1998-07-28 |
Tracks:
- Rocketman
- Hello From Istanbul
- I Wanna See You Bellydance
- Voodoo Doll
- Gypsy Heart
- El Nino
- Hawaii
- I'm Not That Kind Of Guy
- Sad Cowboy Song
- Stewardess In Red
- 200 Flying Girls (Rocketman's Dream)
- All I Wanna Do (Is Make Love to You)
- After the Carnival
Customer Reviews:
I Wanna CD You Belly Dance.......2006-09-19
Russian rock has never been better than on this album. Igor's voice flows in and around the instruments like a well-oiled Elvis wig. All these songs are so catchy and downright "Rocking". Even the instrumentals (El Nino and After the Carnival) are catchy.
I'm Not That Kind of Guy and I Wanna See You Bellydance are the best works of the Red Elvises. The remake of Sad Cowboy Song is quite different from the version on their original cd and while both are great, this one is more upbeat and interesting. Again, Igor's voice on this album is unbeatable. If you're buying one Red Elvises album, make it this one.
Eclectic, Energetic, Innovative, and they Rock.......2006-04-01
Not a Belly Dance CD!.......2005-10-11
Belly Dance comedy act.......2004-09-30
Your Favorite Band's Great Album.......2004-04-16
Igor's masterful work on "Rocketman," "Gypsy Heart," the title track et al are primo. Oleg rocks the house on each and every track with his balalaika bass, and brings "Sad Cowboy Song" to amusing life, which is arguably one of the best Red Elvises songs ever. Zhenya's vocalizations wrap it up with his soft stylings.
If you're interested in checking out the Red Elvises for the first time, this is the album you should get. Be sure that you are getting the English language version as there is also a version in their native Russian.
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British Light Music
Manufacturer: Marco Polo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000004602 Release Date: 1994-08-09 |
Tracks:
- Comedy Overture
- First Suite of English Folk-Dances: Jenny Pluck Pears
- First Suite of English Folk-Dances: Ten Pound Lass
- First Suite of English Folk-Dances: Dick's Maggot
- First Suite of English Folk-Dances: Nonesuch
- First Suite of English Folk-Dances: Hunt the Squirrel
- First Suite of English Folk-Dances: Woodicock
- Light Music Suite: Pizzicato Humoresque
- Light Music Suite: Serenade To A Wayward Miss
- Light Music Suite: Waltz For A Princess
- Light Music Suite: Sahenandoah
- Light Music Suite: Cumberland Square
- Richard watkins: Rhapsody And Rondo For Horn And Orchestra
- Passepied
- Rigadoon
- Dances From Aladdin: Birdcage Dance
- Dances From Aladdin: Cushion Dance
- Dances From Aladdin: Belly Dance
- A Georgian Miniature
Customer Reviews:
Interesting French Horn Music.......1999-12-17
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Rhythm of the Dance
Manufacturer: Eventide Music ProductGroup: Classical Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000LMEDZU |
Product Description
CD with follinwg cuts and more Beledi,Chifte-telli, Masmoundi by Eventide music productions
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Flamenco Arabe, Vol. 2
Hossam Ramzy , and Jose Luis Monton Manufacturer: Arc Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000F2CBSW Release Date: 2006-05-09 |
Tracks:
- Caballo (Intro)
- Caballo (On Horseback)
- Awtar W' Haneen (Strings and Longing)
- Nilo (Nile)
- Men Teeba l' el Andalus (From Thebes to Andalusia)
- Casa de Barry (Intro)
- Casa de Barry (Barry's House)
- Sahret Ghawazy (Gypsy Night of Celebration)
- Arena (Sand)
- Hombre y el Saidi (Intro)
- Hombre y el Saidi (The Macho Man, The Saidi)
- Pensando en Ti (Thinking of You)
- Amil
- Trompetta (Baby Trumpet)
Customer Reviews:
Much Better than Volume # 1 !!!.......2007-02-27
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