Macedonian Bellydance

Macedonian Bellydance Artist: Various Artists
Label: Arc Music
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 743037193221
EAN: 0743037193221
ASIN: B0009HBPMG


Release Date: 2005-05-10

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Tracks:

  1. Pasa Cocek - King Ferus Mustafov
  2. Dzemalovo Oro
  3. Mister Cocek - King Ferus Mustafov
  4. Taso Pestrev - King Ferus Mustafov
  5. Smjotisa
  6. Saskov Cocek
  7. Kocov Cocek - King Ferus Mustafov
  8. Indisko Oro
  9. Vesna Cocek - King Ferus Mustafov
  10. Erding Cocek
  11. Ninin, Cocek
  12. Cigancica
  13. Blagoevo Oro

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Not your mother's belly dance music from Kansas.......2005-08-24

This CD is targeted at a crossover audience of belly dance and Balkan music lovers. All pieces are instrumentals, mostly featuring a brass band (unlikely in any middle eastern belly dance music), clarinet, traditional folk instruments including violin and drums, and some backup by electric bass and keyboards. The selections have a tempo range--not all slow or fast.

The liner notes dreamily discuss the background of belly dance or Macedonian ethnic music in three languages without ever explaining how they might blend well for what's on this CD. So, you may ask still, how and why this? Balkan as well as middle eastern music owe a lot of their origins to the improvisational style of the Rom people that traveled those countries. Couples today often dance lively together gypsy-style for a ciftetelli (belly dance) to music such as this in the Balkans. Get this CD and celebrate a Balkan dance wiggle party with friends.

For a similar recording try the more lively CD "Authentic Belly Dance Music" (Legacy CD350) whose title belies that it is really Macedonian gypsy music. If you like Balkan brass band music I recommend selections by Boban Markovic or Kocani Orkestar. If your style is middle eastern cabaret belly dance then move on unless you are ready for something avant-garde. For that matter, how about a yet stranger belly dance to "Tequila" from the "Latin American Hits for Bellydance" CD by this same recording label?

Music CD:

  1. Red Colour Sun ~ Pauline Scanlon
  2. Anfänger ~ Virginia Jetzt !
  3. Meditations Along the Silk Road ~ Marilynn Seits
  4. Serie De Oro: Grandes Exitos ~ Silvina Garre
  5. Best of Dany Brillant ~ Dany Brillant
  6. O Mar ~ Maria Teresa
  7. Piano's Happy Hour Nacional V.2 ~ Trio Calafrio
  8. Music Of Indonesia 3: Music From The Outskirts Of Jakarta ~ Various Artists
  9. Wia Die Zeit Vergeht - Live ~ Hubert Von Goisern Und Die Alpinkatzen
  10. Paradiso ~ Celso Fonseca, Ronaldo Bastos

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Edgar Winter's White Trash ~ Edgar Winter's White Trash

Jackinabox ~ Turin Brakes

Tumble and Fall ~ Feeder

For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943 Film) ~ Victor Young

DJ-Kicks ~ Thievery Corporation