Weltraum Disk 
V.A. : Eastern Standard Time (PK,IND,JAP,LEB,US,TÜ,EG,comp.2009)****
Eastern Standard time is a well mixed compilation by DJ ‘Alien Disko’, on an obscure German or Austrian label. The focus is mainly on oriental belly-dance-alike crossovers, like a sort of symbolic ‘sound’ of the orient which is adapted as an oriental fantasy in many countries. Elements which return are belly dance hand bells and rhythms, surf guitars, Arab orchestras (on the Middle Eastern groups mostly), oriental use of organ (sometimes moog) and occasional and attractive mixes with other rhythms (samba on track 4, rumba on track 5, eastern flavours on the Japanese track 7, Greek elements on the Indian track 15, flamenco on the other Indian or Pakistani track 16 ; track 10 sounds like being Northern African). No matter where the tracks come from these elements are felt similarly which makes the compilation still luckily varied enough to keep your attention with the smoothly evolving changes. . The artists are not always the most interesting ones around, but the result of the compilation makes most of them sound just fine.
Description : "oriental music from 60/70s Egypt, Pakistan, India, Turkey, Japan, Lebanon and two eastern-American meetings"
Listed are : Layale Bourg El Hamam,Mohamed Abdel Wahab,Baligh Hamdy,The Sheiks Men,The Leon-Symphoniette,Fore Thoughts,Terauchi Takeshi + His Blue Jeans ,Sohail Rana,Faiza Ahmed,Baligh Hamdi ,Omar Khorshid, Little Egypt ,Les Mogol,Naushad,S. Hazarasingh,Charanjit Singh,
Omar Khorshid (Lebanon) I have reviewed on next page
More releases of Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans (Japan) :
S. hazarasingh (Punjab) (see also compilation)
Charanjit Singh :
video's Baligh Hamdi next:
