Alla-Turca featuring Özel Türkbas (CD 4324)
Recorded in Istanbul in the 1960s, the heyday of the Turkish nightclub scene, Alla-Turca is one of the most influential bellydance albums of the era, featuring dancer Özel Türkbas and a line-up of legendary Turkish and Turkish-Gypsy musicians. This reissue includes bonus tracks from a second classic Özel bellydance album, Kismet, featuring the great ney master Aka Gündüz Kutbay.
Mavi Boncuk
The 1960s classic that first introduced Americans to authentic Turkish bellydance, and to some of the great Turkish nightclub musicians of the 20th century, including the legendary Turkish-Gypsy clarinet player Mustafa Kandirali--all under the guise of that swing-era staple, the art of domestic seduction. Produced by and featuring the famous Turkish dancer Özel Türkbas, first brought to America to dance by Italian movie director Franco Zeferelli, the album sold 150,000 copies in the US (and a million in Turkey), spawning the craze for bellydance and Turkish music that continues today.
Notes include Özel’s original bellydance instructions with pictures. “A practice run through with the record,” she promised, “and tonight you can be bellydancing for that luckiest of men--your sultan!”
Featuring: Mustafa Kandirali, clarinet; Ahmet Yatman, kanun; Cevdet Çagla, violin; Tarik Bulut, piano; Leszlo Kubinyi, drum; Gerhard Rudolph, bass; Özel Türkbas, finger cymbals & vocals
1. TOKAT
2. KANDIRALI ÇIFTETELLI
3. TAKSIMLER (improvisations on violin, kanun, clarinet)
4. ANADOLU
5. FASULYA
6. TIN TIN
7. ÖZEL’S DANCE MUSIC (a complete 17-minute bellydance routine)
8. HOPLADA
Review from fRoots
Özel Türkbas How To Make Your Husband A Sultan (Traditional Crossroads)$16.99
Yes, in spite of the horrendous cover and the dreadful title, herein lies some of the real deal, brilliantly performed 'belly-dance' music from the 1960s featuring some of the era's most respected performers including Mustafa Kandirali, clarinet, and Ahmet Yatman, kanun. In the guise of that swing-era staple, the art of domestic seduction, and produced by and featuring the famous Turkish dancer Özel Türkbas (first brought to America to dance by Italian movie director Franco Zeferelli), this album originally sold 150,000 copies in the US (and a million in Turkey), spawning the craze for bellydance and Turkish music that continues today. If this had been released by anyone other than Traditional Crossroads, I would have ignored it. But in all the years I have listened, they have openly made one dreadful recording... and this isn't it.
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