Program 6

Another grand archive episode!  Shimmies!  Apologies for my none-too-professional zaghareet in the intro (you may want to turn your volume down, heh...).

1. JOSEPH KARKOUR, ET. AL.
Farhat Shabab - 2:21
from the album Belly Dance! Spectacular Rhythms from the Middle East, 1974

2. ANESTOS ATHOUNASIOU & HIS ENSEMBLE
Mia Nihta Mayemeni (One Magic Night) - 2:39
from the album Music for Belly Dancing - Instrumentals From the Near East, no date given

3. EDDIE MEKJIAN & ENSEMBLE
Nor Pessa (Syrto) - 3:19
from the album Belly Dance Music from the Middle East - Vol. 1, no date given

4. THE STEVO TEODOSIEVSKI ENSEMBLE (UNCREDITED)
Mojilo Cindilo - 3:02
from the album Authentic Belly Dance Music, 1976

5. CHRIS KALOGERSON & HIS ENSEMBLE SHARQI
Tsifteteli El Greco - 2:26
from the album Belly Dance!, 1979

6. SONNY LESTER & HIS ORCHESTRA
Flirtation on the Nile - 2:00
from the album Little Egypt Presents: MORE How to Belly-Dance For Your Husband, no date given

7. GUS VALI
The Speechless Animal - 3:24
from the album Let's Belly Dance, 1973
(Marisa's note: There's not a lot of slow stuff at Radio Bastet, but this is one of the coolest. I did my first veil routine to this!)

8. THE SULTANS
Organ, Ney, Drum (improvisation) - 4:53
from the album The Sultans Middle Eastern Band Vol. 1, 1981

9. JODETTE (KAMELIA) WITH ABOUD ABD EL AL & HIS ORCHESTRA
History of Belly Dancing and Five Common Cymbal Patterns - 11:40
from the album How to Belly Dance (The Authentic Way) For Fun! Health! Profit!, 1972

10. DAVID CARROLL & HIS ORCHESTRA
Danse Orientale - 2:07
from the album Percussion Orientale, 1961

11. KEMANI GARIB, ET. AL.
Siseler (2/4) - 2:28
from the album Special Music For Your Belly Dancing, 1974-1975

12. THE "FLAMES OF ARABY" ORCHESTRA, FEATURING VOCALS BY GEORGE ABDO
Ya Wail (Don't Play with Fire) - 5:58
from the album Belly Dance Music, no date given

13. ARTIE BARSAMIAN & HIS ORCHESTRA
Raks Jemil I - 2:35
from the album More Belly Dance - Music of the Middle East, no date given
(Marisa's note: There are 2 tunes on this album titled "Raks Jemil", in typical lazy-record-company fashion; I arbitrarily designated them I and II.)

14. TONI FRANGIEH (buzuk), SETRAK SARKISSIAN (tabla)
Raksat El Helween - 4:07
from the album Belly Dance Nights (Layale Bourg El Hamam), Vol. 2, 1977

15. ESIN ENGIN
Zennube - 2:24
from the album Modern Oyun Havalari 2, 1975

16. RAFIC HOBEIKA
Sahar - 8:39
from the album Music for an Oriental Dance Vol. 1 - Danses de Nadia Gamal, 1973