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Fire Dance

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My sister introduced me to Brian Keane and Omar Faruk Tekbilek some time back with a CD called "Whirling." I became so entranced that I could not resist another: Fire Dance! This CD, along with a very few others, has become a mainstay in my daily listening fare.

Fire Dance is a collaboration of two masters musicians from very different world. Brian Keane is a guitarist, composer, and award winning producer, scoring more than 40 films. His first collaboration with Tekbilek was the soundtrack to Suleyman the Magnificent. Fire Dance is a natural progression from Suleyman. It blends Middle Eastern and North African instruments with synthesizers, guitar, and sophisticated orchestrations. The focus of Fire Dance expands to include music from North Africa, Egypt, and other Middle Eastern and Arabic sources. In Fire Dance you will find a unique recording embracing many moods. Yet it is energetic and meditative, mystical and joyous. It transports the listener to far away lands and traditions.

This is a fabulous album for Middle Eastern dance warm-ups and practice. It has a variety of styles and tempos: slow songs for practicing flowing arms and undulations, fast songs for working on hip articulation and shimmies. I had this on cassette tape for years and wore it out before buying the CD. Some of my dance CD purchases tend to be trendy, whatever is popular at the moment, but this is a CD I keep listening to when the others have lost their limited appeal.

A thoroughly enchanting and beautiful masterpiece. Beautiful. Inspired. Mystical. You cannot help but feel uplifted and elevated listening to this magnificent CD, as it takes you to a happier and more perfect place. The collaboration of Brian Keane and Omar Faruk Tekbilek is a match made in heaven.

I am someone who listens to a lot of middle eastern and Ancient Egypt music, both Traditional and New Age. I would have to recommend this CD for anyone into Ancient Egyptian sounds, or Middle Eastern Music. It is my favorite CD at the moment, and I listen to it daily. Highly recommended!

As an amateur middle eastern dancer, I listen to a lot of middle eastern style music. This is easily my favorite for listening to or dancing to. The cuts vary from "new age" style to traditional style middle eastern dance music. It's a must for every dancer's collection.

This is a great album of middle eastern "desert esoteric". Very exotic

Fire Dance was my first arabic music CD, and several years ago someone stole it. When I saw the title in Amazone I decided to buy the CD again and now that I am a belly dancer student I love this CD because I simply can relax with the music or I can practice my routine warming up,dancing with cymbals, veil and doing plenty of shimmies.

This was the second album that I purchased done by Brian Keane and Omar Faruk Tekbilek. It is lively, stirring and fun.