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Sulukule Turkish Belly Dance

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Violinist (i.e. kemane- close enough for Turkey!) Kemani Cemal (pronounced 'je-mal') is probably one of the greatest living masters of Turkish music. Along with singer Berguzar and others he's recorded an album which is bound to be an enduring classic. The surface simplicity of this music hides its wheels-within-wheels churning of melody and rhythm. Only thing better than catching this album is catching Kemani Cemal live.

I am an intermediate Raks sharki dancer and I prefer traditional and original as possible music. This is one of those CD's, you can feel the zills popping out of your chest, or the serpent taking over your hips...trully beautiful turkish music for those who love and love to dance traditional, non-pop, non-synthetic, happy, sensual music. I would also highly recommend Music of Islam vol 1, another original cd loaded with beautiful music, all traditional from Egypt. Just beautiful hip music. Another one: El-Fonoun, original, beautiful and traditional Palestinian music.

Grrrrreat Cd, fabulous musicians & too bad the only dancing you see is on the cover... -Hope we can see them play live some day, incl. rhine stones in their belly buttons. -A must have for every world music fan.

This cd is very good for who wnats to dance. it has cultural tone of the music and the way they sing it. Music cheers me up and make get up and dance when i feel down.