The Sensual Art of Bellydance

Santa Cruz Arts Journal, Fall 2000
...a rich library of different moods...much more approachable to the western ear than the traditional style.

Product Description
Enjoy the wonderful music of Bellydance with this new compact disc, composed and performed by Ron Wagner. Tracks include: Lady of Saeed Moon Dance The King's Consorts The Camel's Gait Isis Dancing Caravan Trek Bounty of the Goddess Sumerian Sundance Lion Birds Shimmering Oasis Dune Dance Sand Fury Daughter of Twilight Camel Trail

The Sensual Art of Bellydance - Fast rhythms,Ron Wagner,Goldhil Home Media,Belly Dancing,Int'l & World Music,Pop

Average customer rating:

spellbinding, evocative, fun and accessible bellydance music

Unique and Inspired

Dissappointed

a CD for choreographers

a very interesting recording

The Sensual Art of Bellydance - Fast rhythms
Ron Wagner
Manufacturer: Goldhil Home Media
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | International | Styles | Music
General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00005AVPL
Release Date: 2001-05-01

Tracks:

Lady Of Saeed
Moon Dance
The King's Consorts
The Camel's Gait
Isis Dancing
Caravan Trek
Bounty Of The Goddess
Sumerian Sundance
Lion Birds
Shimmering Oasis
Dune Dance
Sand Fury
Daughter Of Twilight
Camel Trail

Album Description

Enjoy the wonderful music of Bellydance with this new compact disc, composed and performed by Ron Wagner. Tracks include: Lady of Saeed Moon Dance The King's Consorts The Camel's Gait Isis Dancing Caravan Trek Bounty of the Goddess Sumerian Sundance Lion Birds Shimmering Oasis Dune Dance Sand Fury Daughter of Twilight Camel Trail

Customer Reviews:

spellbinding, evocative, fun and accessible bellydance music.......2002-07-06

Listening to Ron Wagner making music ----- on ANY percussion instrument --- is spellbinding.

Rarely does one get to experience a musician so intensely at one with the music, an extension of the instrument, at once fiery and intently grounded, rooted inwardly in compelling concentration to the hidden core pulse at the center of sound.

The recorded music on the 2 CD set "The Sensual Art of BellyDance" ( Available through AMOZON) -- music composed and performed by Ron Wagner--- is equally entrancing and inwardly rooting.

The first time I listened to "The Sensual Art of BellyDance - Slow Rhythms" I was transported, carried meditatively into the vastness and beauty of the desert landscape, the camel caravan, the walking of women, of centuries of nomadic caravan over sandy arid hills. I was taken inward to the center of my own meditative dance until there was no vision, no desert mirage remaining...only the dance. Subsequent listenings readily return me to this quiet and delicious meditative vastness .

The other CD, "The Sensual Art of BellyDance - Fast Rhythms" has, time and again transformed the hatha yoga classes that I teach, into gatherings at the oasis, celebrations of women sharing their intimate prayer dance and sensual aliveness. Through this music women of all cultural backgrounds ,representing the widest possible range of training, skill level ,body awareness and comfort (with bellydance, hatha yoga, and being seen in their dance)...have spontaneously re-discovered their grace, fluidity, strength and playfulness...the pure joy of movement and their body's innate knowing of the dance. The clean, fresh accessibility of this recording in fact inspired my own boldness in introducing bellydance into my yoga classes. Without any dance instruction, This music inspires novice and "born-dancer" alike to "come home" to their dance.

What more could any dancer, yoga or bellydance teacher, anyone interested in awakening embodied consciousness ask for?? These 2 CDs are magical carpet rides that can take you or your students flying to unknown, surprising destinations...

Highly recommended for meditative yoga or dance : " The Sensual Art of BellyDance -Slow Rhythms" .
Highly recommended for exuberant yoga or dance: "The Sensual Art of BellyDance - Fast Rhythms".

"The Sensual Art of BellyDance" by Ron Wagner - 2 CD set is a DEFINITE WORTHWHILE and UNIQUE addition to my rather extensive CD collection of music .

Review contributed by Hanna Chusid,EdD. Licensed Psychologist/Yoga and Meditation Instructor/Dancer (25 years experience)-L.A., CA>

Unique and Inspired.......2001-09-21

Here is middle eastern inspired music that sounds original! Not the usual Arabic bellydance music one hears in clubs and on CD's. The composer, it seems, has taken Arabic modes (like Hijaz, Hijaz-Kar, Bayati, Nahawand, Saba, and Nakriz) and created a unique tapestry by combining them with Indian ragas. Specifically I heard Ahir Bhairav, Kafi, Sindhu Bhairavi, and even the South Indian Raag Saraswati. With the addition of the Persian mode of Esfahan the silk road feeling is complete. The mix of synthisized instruments with real dumbek and percussion work was smooth and pleasing to listen to without the crass edge one often hears with synth work in many middle eastern clubs and performances. It also allowed the music to change tone centers easier than it could have given the limitations of some middle eastern instruments. I would recommend this CD to any dance instructor looking for a variety of rhythms and tempos including a couple of good drum solos!

Dissappointed.......2001-09-09

I bought this CD because the videos are so popular (they lack passion,too), but the music is quite dull and at times annoying. The music is trying to be Western to appeal to American audiences that aren't acustomed to the traditional Eastern sound, but it comes off as safe, boring, mediocre, like bellydance elevator music. You would do better off by trying the traditional bellydance CDs.

a CD for choreographers.......2001-09-08

This CD is great for group choreography because of it's variety of voices and dramatic streams. The pieces have a storytelling feel to them. Like with the SLOW RHYTHMS CD, the music is a mixture of new age and middle eastern music which frees the dancer from strict bellydance vocabulary. The drum solos are really good, and one of them, "Dune Dance," makes a great solo dance piece.

a very interesting recording.......2001-08-22

While I do like this disc, I can understand the other reviews complaining about the "sparse instrumentation" and somewhat electronic sound of the performances. Never the less, I can say from many years of collecting world music from classical Indian music on Sitar, Sarod and Surbahar ,to Paraguayian harp, from Sarangi and Oud to Western Classical music and Cante Flamenco, that this recording and also the companion disc "Slow Rhythmes" both have, orchestration not withstanding, very noteworthy and interesting qualities. Here the use of Tabla and Baya, North Indian percussion instruments, add both sparkle and a clean (albeit somewhat intellectual) quality to the music. Here, while most recordings of Bellydance overdo the sensual aspects, providing much more elastic but in most cases less rigourous tempos and less complex rhythmic patterning, here we have the opposite for a change. I feel any good dancer will appreciate the clarity of the entire percussion section in both these discs,for the very insistance on a more precise and, well, Indian Gat like quality in these areas. Now to correct at least one error I noted in other reviews of this recording, most all of the percussion instruments are NOT digital but REAL instruments as played against a synthesizer which provides the melody largely in imitation of Middle Eastern strings and winds . It is here where I do have a few reservations. While I myself had no problem with the electronic fiddles, Ouds, etc, my inital reaction was to be a little put off by the digital imitation of the winds. Whether or not these synthesized instruments were in some way inspired by or were in direct imitation of Zorna or Shehnai or South Indian Flutes -whatever- the sound was uniformly mechanical and "digital" wherever these "instruments" appeared. I guess this was due to the emmense difficulty of getting the often nasal registers and/or Woody sound of the real thing plus the wide vibratos usually employed by the players, plus the sound of the wide scooping to pitch and the breath just right... I could easly imagine how smashing these recordings could have sounded here with "live" musicians in attendance. The rest of the synthesizer work was, I thought, well done. Last criticism ? All the fast movements are on one disc, all the slow movements are on another.... this is a real recipe for dullness. MY suggestion is to tape or burn a nice mix from both these cd's and you will have a great set of dance suites- but be prepared for a workout!

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