Turkish Delight

Another one of those things with really interesting music hidden inside a dubious cover. Side one is really more Macedonian gypsy music (Esma Rejepova & Stevo Teodsievski being present) while side 2 features the Dolgru Yol Turkish Ensemble doing exactly what you'd want them to do. Monitor Records had an interesting run there, lots of very good and authentic folkloric style music repackaged into at best cheesy and often slightly lurid covers- an interesting artistic concept for a label, but not too different to several of the current reissue labels do nowadays. Get the gypsy/Ottoman party here.

Discostan

LA folks come on over, I've got new stuff from Egypt to play in honor of the dancers, and it'll be fun. Music post in the next day or two I promise, life has been hectic.......