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Orient Express
Orient Express
Genres: Folk, International Music, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Fruit of the Desert
2. Dance for Me
3. Layla
4. Birds of India
5. Train to Bombay
6. Caravan of Silk - Orient Express, Golesorkhi
7. Azaar - Orient Express, Golesorkhi
8. For a Moment - Orient Express, Giet
9. Impulse (Forty-Two Drums) - Orient Express, Golesorkhi
10. A Little Star
11. Cobra Fever - Orient Express, Giet

CD Details

All Artists: Orient Express
Title: Orient Express
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Fallout
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 6/17/2008
Genres: Folk, International Music, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock
Styles: Traditional Folk, Middle East, Psychedelic Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 5051125210213, 766481199472

Synopsis

Album Description

Recorded by a Frenchman, a Belgian and an Iranian who'd wound up in New York's East Village via extensive travels out East, this 1969 classic is arguably the finest fusion of traditional Middle Eastern music and psychedelia ever recorded. Featuring guitar and drums as well as oud, electric sitar, melodica, dumbek and minitar, it's a hypnotic, compelling blast from start to finish. As the original sleeve notes state: "Like the train whose name they bear, the Orient Express travels easily from West to East and back again, maintaining their individuality and integrity all the way.

CD Reviews

Excellent frenetic psychedelic East-West hybrid

boeanthropist | Cambridge, MA | 07/08/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Another in that select handful of late-60s groups (The Devil's Anvil, Omar Khorshid, the (U.S.) Kaleidoscope, Edip Akbayram, The Cedars, John Berberian et al) wherein electric guitar and bass buzz and squeal alongside oud, doumbek, saz and other classical instruments from the Middle East. This was recorded in New York City but the musicians hailed from Iran, Belgium and France. "Impulse (42 Drums)", a 4-minute drum solo, is the only real disappointment (but I bet it could be sampled to great effect). And the lyrics can be kind of dippy, but hey: they're dippy IN A FRENCH ACCENT. What more could you ask for?"