Drum Circle

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 23, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hollywood Music
• ASIN: B0000DESYT
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #877,126 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tabla Competition

2. I Salute the Rakasa

3. Everyone Gather Around

4. Boy's Stick Dance

5. Let Me Shake You

6. Bedouin's Steps

7. Awaken the Horsemen

8. Serpherd's Dabke

9. Dance of the Horse

10. The Hidden Art

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Middle Eastern Percussion for dancers and drummers, August 6, 2004

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Shelley Ashfield (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drum Circle (Audio CD)

Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian, and Iraqi drummers Fathi Amin, Ahmad Al Masri, Hani Samir, Amir Nabil, Magdi Mshmosh, Mhamma Johari, Haysam, Safad Sroor, Hsen Sahhar, Jamale Samia, Mahmoud Hashash, Nigm Hanafli, and Kazim Al Iraqi play these ten percussion pieces featuring the Tabla. They are beautifully and skillfully played, more upbeat than the American Tribal offering by Solace, "Rhythm of the Dance", and not quite so complex as Hossam Ramszy's "Sabla Tolo" pieces.

Featured are:

1. Tabla Competition (3:10) - Freestyle Finger Rolls/Malfoof

2. I Salute the Rakasa (3:04) - Fallahi/Maqsum/Maqsum Finger Rolls

3. Everyone Gather Around (3:06) - Masmudi/Freestyle Maqsum/Africi

4. Boy's Stick Dance (4:39) - Malfoof/Saidi/Maghrebi/Ingrara Fallihi

5. Let Me Shake You (5:30) - Tafsil/Maqsum/Taksim/Saidi

6. Bedouin's Steps (3:22) - Maqsum Finger Rolls

7. Awaken the Horsemen (3:54) - Improvisation/Maqsum/Rhythm/Moorakkab/Freestyle Doom-Tak

8. Shepherd's Dabke (4:01) - Maqsum Variation

9. Dance of the Horse (3:10) - 3/4 Variation

10. The Hidden Art (3:01) - Baladi, Fallahi, Fallahi Finger Rolls

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Drumming, June 18, 2006

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Peter L. Sutphen (Coconut Creek, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drum Circle (Audio CD)

This is an enjoyable collection of songs performed by some of the best doumbek players out the Middle East and Turkey. It's pure drumming with no melodic instrumentation so it could have a particular appeal to hand drummers. Each song has a listing of its main rhythms (e.g., Masmoudi, Karsilama, Malfouf, etc.) which allows a beginning drummer to hear and play along with some amazing solo work of blazing finger rolls, pops, and slaps. These guys are amazing drummers; always "in the pocket.".

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Middle Eastern drum rhythms, June 20, 2010

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Richard "keys guy" (Key Largo, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drum Circle (Audio CD)

This CD is a great way to hear particular Middle Eastern drum rhythms. I'm not a good enough drummer yet to mimic these rhythms but it's an excellent CD to play during the drum circle I lead. There is a wide and interesting variety of rhythms that gets us moving and are fun to play our own rhythms against.