40 Days and 1001 Nights

Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club of Zanzibar - 40 Days and 1001 Nights

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Artist: Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club of Zanzibar
Composer: Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club of Zanzibar
Conductor: Juma Hajji Omar
Orchestra: Ikhwani Safaa
Performer: Bellydance Music for Tamalyn Dallal
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-05-25
Music Label: Tamalyn Dallal
Soundtracks:

Safaa, 3:01
Ifkar, 6:10
Kucheza, 6:20
Kidumbak, (Improvised drum solo and finale) 4:36
Princess Salme (Originally titled Lishalo) 9:51
40 Days (Originally titled Pendo la Moyoni)
1001 Nights (Originally titled Umetoka Kwangu Kwa Ujeuri)

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Music Review: "The Perfect Belly Dance Music."
Rating: 5 Stars

Arranged for belly dance performances, this CD is a real find not only for dancers but for any World Music enthusiast. It presents new and traditional compositions from the Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club of Zanzibar, a band that was founded in 1905 and has been playing ever since, passing its music along from each generation to the next. In Zanzibar, its CDs outsell all other music albums combined, though they and their music are virtually unknown beyond the island's shores. The population of Zanzibar, an autonomous island state that is part of Tanzania, is made up of Swahili-speaking Islamic East Africans, and their traditional music, called taarab, is a unique blend of Egyptian-Arabic melodies and instrumentation with the driving rhythms of equatorial Africa and Swahili lyrics. Tamalyn Dallal, the CD's producer, is one of America's top belly dancers and a former Miss World of Belly Dance. She left Florida's South Beach scene a couple of years back after about 25 years as a performer, leader of an internationally known dance company and director of South Beach's MidEastern Dance Exchange studio, to embark on a solo journey of explore through the most remote parts of the Islamic world, teaching, studying regional dance and music styles and gathering material for an ambitious multimedia project - videos, recordings and a planned book. Since she left, many of us who knew her have been following her adventures via the blogosphere. In the liner notes to this CD, she describes how, in Malindi, Zanzibar, she followed a young guide into a back alley and up a wooden staircase to a rooftop. "This is Ikhwani Safaa," he told her. "You should come back in the night." She did, spent evening after evening at the club, and realized, "This is the perfect belly dance music." And Dallal knows what she's talking about, as this CD proves.

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Description of 40 Days and 1001 Nights

Vibrant, romantic, and passionate. "40 Days and 1001 Nights" invokes Egypt's "Golden Age", mixed with a hint of old Havana. This is belly dance music you won't get tired of dancing to, as well as great listening or ambient music.There are no synthesizers or canned beats. Only real music! The first four songs are arranged to comprise a 20 minute show. Afterward, there are three beautiful compositions. Total length, 50 minutes