very good respect from new york. check out my latin and balkan playlists.

Tales of the Dancing Flame are made of passion and love. 
Sometimes sensual and languorous, sometimes wild and fun, these songs run through us and touch even the smallest part of our body. Without even realising it, we end up being one with the music.

In this selection from a collection of vinyls dedicated to the world of bellydance, you will find music from Greece, Armenia, Maghreb and Middle East.

Picture : Juliana, a bellydancer on the cover of "Turkish Delight", 1967.
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Tales of the Dancing Flame est un récit de passion et d'amour. 
Tantôt sensuelles et langoureuses, tantôt endiablées et amusantes, ces chansons nous traversent et touchent jusqu’à la plus petite parcelle de notre corps. Sans s'en rendre compte, nous finissons par ne faire qu'un avec la musique. 

Dans cette sélection issue d'une collection de vinyles dédiée à l'univers du bellydance, vous retrouverez des musiques venues de Grèce, d'Arménie, du Maghreb et du Moyen Orient.

TALES OF THE DANCING FLAME

Traditional And Folk Songs Of Yugoslavia

Da Smo Se Ranije Sreli

Выпуск "Алфавита инакомыслия" с Андреем Гавриловым посвящен Джорджу Оруэллу – автору «Скотного двора» или «Скотского хутора», «Памяти Каталонии» и, конечно, «1984».

Алфавит инакомыслия. Джордж Оруэлл

KILOMBELOMBE - BONGA 87 - RACUBAH SPEACIALS

EYES




"Xinguila" is one of the high-power tracks from the forthcoming Daniel Haaksman album "African Fabrics" (released Feb 26th). "Xinguila" features the Portuguese trio Throes + The Shine from the city of Porto, who are merging the African culture of the Angolan people with the more urbanized electronic and rock sound resulting in a highly spirited tropical cocktail - they call the hybrid "Rockuduro". 

Follow Throes + The Shine on Soundcloud: @throestheshine

Pre-order the "African Fabrics" album on Itunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/africanfabrics




African Fabrics

Xinguila ft. Throes + The Shine

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Xinguila Ft. Throes + The Shine

Mashala mashala (AuxiGate balkan madness remix) - Goran Bregovic

A selection of 70s African and Caribbean dance rhythms off the original vinyl. 
Bouncy baselines, jumping trumpets and funky guitar licks all the way!

Digging The Tropical Archives-Timbuktu mixes- Original vinyl

Uhrwald Orange

Kreuzgang

New song from the forthcoming album by Nahawa Doumbia, out 29 January on Awesome Tapes From Africa.
Pre-order/stream http://smarturl.it/kanawa

Nahawa Doumbia’s new album Kanawa concisely captures this current moment in Malian history. The singer, whose storied career spans more than four decades, reflects on the immigration crisis from the Malian perspective in the title of her new album Kanawa. Across eight songs recorded in Bamako with a band including traditional and modern instruments, Doumbia merges her early work that relied on a spare expression of her trademark didadi rhythm with the bombastic range of contemporary Malian pop. The beautifully complex musical accompaniment that results is courtesy of the large ensemble she pulled together with producer and arranger (and day one collaborator) N’gou Bagayoko. 

The band features two highly expressive Malian string instruments, the ngoni and the slightly smaller kamalé ngoni, as well as a variety of percussion, drum programming, karignan (a metal scraper) and acoustic and electric guitars. Doumbia’s daughter, a celebrated singer with her own group and busy concert schedule, Doussou Bagayoko sings on “Adjorobena,” a song about patience, tolerance and living in peace. Doumbia weaves together a roadmap of her psyche when it comes to the good and bad life has to offer. She talks about marriage and women leaving home to join another through the metaphor of a tree in the garden; she includes gunshot samples in the song “Foliwilen” to honor the bravery of hunters, soldiers and other courageous people; she uses a bird in “Djougoh” to talk about lazy people; and, in “Ndiagneko” she advises people to ignore critics, just do you.  

Mali has gone through an intense period of regional strife and terrorist incidents over the last ten years and Doumbia roots the album in tragic local concerns with deep global implications. “The meaning of Kanawa is so simple. We see our children trying to cross the ocean all the time. I said that many of our children die in the ocean and some of them die while crossing the Sahara. But I ask them why do they leave their country? They said that they leave because of the family situation or problems like poverty and unemployment. I ask them to stay and work in their country. I call on the UN and African leaders so that we can coordinate our efforts to find a solution, to create jobs for them so that young people stop leaving. That’s why I chose it as the title of my album so that everybody can learn from it and also so that there is a reduction in the number of people emigrating. So that some will hear the message and stay home and grow the land. Leaving is not the only solution. My message is to help the youth find jobs.”

Nahawa Doumbia - Foliwilen

African Head Charge - Take Heed… and smoke up your collyweed (taken from Voodoo of the Godsent)

Nat Drash, Belgium. Organic House. Monday Mood Music, Future Avenue

Mashala mashala (AuxiGate balkan madness remix) - Goran Bregovic

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