Excellent fuision of many different types of music
Z | Springfield, MA USA | 03/14/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Even though it's supposed to be an album of desert guitars(middle east type), nonetheless, it is one of the best guitar albums i've heard in a long time. Strunz & Farah use combination of jazz, soft jazz, arabic belly dance, persian sufi music, latin pop etc. If you want to titillate your senses when listening music, this is it. Enjoy
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Strunz and Farah do it again
K. Jensen | Camas, WA | 07/26/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is another wonderful album from my beloved dynamic duo, so I am admittedly biased, but I found this album to be extra-exciting due to the Desert Guitar promise. I belly dance, and found several songs on here wonderful for oriental dancing, although I was a little surprised at the understated percussion. To me, desert sounds (and I have quite the library of them by now) and drum go together. I don't think it would have detracted too much from the phenomenal guitar playing. A couple of the songs sound quite South American, which rather confused me. If that's what they were trying for, then great, if not, then perhaps a judicial use of tabla might have steered the sound farther east. I understand that the primary instrument here is guitar (duh!), but while the album is excellent for listening to, fun to dance to, and has a gorgeous cover (important somehow), the overall sound of the entire album didn't floor me with it's Middle Eastern ambiance. Reng and Zagros are worth the price of the album alone, and there is nothing on here that is less than fabulous, I want to emphasize this. A 'must have' for any dancers or world music fan's collection."
Track Listings (12) - Disc #1