Customer Reviews

The Belly and The Beat

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This one really gets me going - in the kitchen, in the bathroom taking a shower or putting on make-up, even in the car - it has me shimmying, rippling and gyrating all over the place! I am partial to drums and the tempo varies from song to song, lots to play with here. I like the fact that, while the music incorporates modern electronica, it isn't too "new-agey". On most tracks it is just background for the traditional instrumentation - I skip over the ones that are a little too "techno-y" too, but that's only a couple of the tracks.

Hey I'm a cabaret girl, and I loved this CD. It definately has that stripped down tribal thing going on, but the tracks are upbeat and funky. There is a great Beledi that I can't stop listening to.....Good stuff!

Another great CD-this one has some songs that are a little too "technoie" for my taste for dance class or choreography. But great for general use. Very happy with my purchase.

Another great album by Mr. Nagi! I love his stuff because it challenges me as a dancer. Karim has studied music and the originality of it through and through tis why it makes it a great and moving challenge. You have to learn the music and know HOW to move to it. Stonecutter is one of my faves but all the songs, for me... are hits. This album will def. make you put your best shimmy forward...Raqs on...AIWA!

This CD has some really fun tracks! I have had fun dancing and teaching to them!

A second cd for Turbo Tabla, and a second hit!

Karim has outdone himself on this one. Each track is great for dancing to or just jamming to in the car.

Nice job, Mr. K!

~YD

I really enjoyed this CD. Modern music, with true authentic origin. Different than his first CD, but that's okay. He makes a real effort to be true to the heritage of the music. Great for tribaret or tribal style dance.

great music i am in a bellydance troupe and we are dancing to a routine using some of the songs thanks

I just had to share with everyone this CD I got today (yes, some people still DO actually buy CD's...LOL!). OH-MY-GOD!!! It is rockinnnnnnnn' da house! You see me? I bought 3 CD's, today to feed my soul. The others are good, but this one makes my heart feel like it's gonna fly out my body! Oh my God, I put it in the CD player in my car, and I just cannot stop moving! I'm thinking of all kind of belly dance moves to do... but more importantly, it just sounds like my heartbeat, man. I just can't explain it more than that. It's sooooooooo funky!!!

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.