My nominee for the CD with the most irresistable title this month is Bellylicious, a compilation of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Indian flavors in hot dance tracks with a bellydance theme.
Featured on Bellylicious are: The Dhol Foundation, Thievery Corporation, The R.E.G. Project, Spiritual Brothers, and Saed Mrad. Even when I recognized a song, it sounded so amped up with the driving bass and the overall dance-club beat that it was new again. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of tabla drumwork, too, but the overall sound is a marriage of traditional bellydance music and modern trance dance music. It's like bellydance on steroids! It's really fun and very high energy. Aside from a dance album, it would be great for a high energy aerobics class.
- Kathryn Sargent, Aquarius Metaphysical Newspaper
December, 2003
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