The Radio Bastet LP Cover Gallery

CHRIS KALOGERSON & THE ENSEMBLE SHARQI
Belly Dance!
Monitor Records MFS-801; 1979
Cover design: Edward Buxbaum

SIDE ONE  Ma Alli We Oltelou * Sali (The Shawl) * Diggi Diggi Ya Rababa * Tsifteteli El Greco * Shat Eskindria (The Beach of Alexandria) * Ti Lozani Ti Kozani * Katou Stou Valtou

SIDE TWO  Akher Ayam El Sayfia (The Last Days of Summer) * Tsifteteli Tou Yianni * Awel Marra (My First Love) * Bint El Shalabia (Girl from Shalabia) * Tha Paro Dio (I Will Take Two) * Kahraman * Velisaris

THE VOCALISTS:  Zeinab Shaath * Despina Regas

THE MUSICIANS:  Salah Abdel Fattah (oud and violin) * John Trigas (clarinet and bouzoukee) * Mark Macres (bouzoukee) * Remis Konstantinidis (drums of tabla, tymbano and deffi) * Eleni Bravis (double bass) * Mark Waggoner (guitar) * Jim Roth (accordion) * Chris Kalogerson (derbecki and dumbeg; arrangements and record production)