BAILA HABIBI in Arab language means , DANCE MY LOVE, and it'a an invitation to dance and sensuality coming from the Near East, the East nearest to us, right on the South of the Mediterranean sea, the warmest side that goes from Egypt to Tunisia to Morocco, nearly touching Spain.

BAILA HABIBI is a collection of happy songs, easy to listen and to dance to, which makes us imagine the suggestions of Sherazade's dances, of desert oasis with palms, of big fresh Arab buildings.
Women let down their veils, and let themselves go to singing and dancing, with the accompainment of hands clapping, of chord instruments, of percussions: but the production of this album is made in the most modern recording studios, with today's state of the art technology, with a sound that can afford as well the discotheque volumes.

Because the "world music" has widened the musical horizons and, even discovering exhotic rhythms and sounds, can transform them technologically in international standard sounds, with the great quality we are used to, yet enriched by new sonorities and by popular and merry beats.

In Arab, in Spanish, in French, in English language, the Artists participating in this compilation don't have any boundaries of language in transmitting their hot musicality, underlined by the unifying arrangements and production of "Shad" Farshad Rabbani, a great musician of Arab origin, now living in the U.S.: he has been able to melt rhythms and sensations, now offering us a very modern music product, with its popular roots, a music message to be a bridge to the new millennium.

Let's us dance and allow ourselves be carried away by the rhythms and sensations of this album, dance my love, BAILA HABIBI !

CD: GO ! 1999-2 MC: GO ! 1999-4

(Article appeared on the Sept. 1999 issue of JOCKS MAG, the Italian official magazine of the Disc Jockeys Association)

NEW DANCE SPEAKS ARABIC

Dance music knows no barriers: it keeps exploring new territories.
From techno to trance, to jungle, to baile latino, the music experiences and the most different rhythms are addressed to the healthy amusement of dance and rhythm.
If even Latin Music, after invading the dancehalls, is now usually programmed in discotheques in its more technological versions, here it comes a new "trend" for discos, the "ARAB DANCE".

Do you remember SHEHERAZADE, the dance of the "seven veils", her sensuality of "one thousand and one night" ?
Well, in super technological Los Angeles, a musician and producer of Arab origin , SHAD RABBANI, previously producer of techno-dance and psychedelic rock, is now launching the new trend, by mixing colors, sensations and music traditions of his native land to the more commercial and more popular disco-dance.

BAILA HABIBI meaning "Dance My Love" in a new experience.
A compilation of dance tracks in which Shad manages to open a new communication window between initially far-away music experiences, showering Arab sonorities on disco-dance, on hip-hop, on trance.
In U.S. West Coast discotheques it's the new trend of the moment, so much that live shows of the Artists and groups included in the compilation have been quickly organized, in venues like the Hollywood Athletic Club, in front of thousands people audiences.

First in Europe, this compilation is now released in Italy by the independent label Bumshiva Music: the compilation has been re-compiled, in a catching sleeve, and really all tracks deserve to be listened and tried on dancefloor.

MERA is the star of this new rhythm, the technological Sheherazade of the new millennium: listen to her in "Nina G.", in "Kieh Kieh", in "Gole Sangam", in "Yalla".
Buth other artists claim for attention: the rapper MR.COOL feat. MAURICE speaks French in his "C'est Toi", KATERINA Feat. LOUIE ZELAYA, in the track "Baila" and in the remix of the title track of the album "Baila Habibi" brings Gypsy Kings sonorities, SAHARA GIRLS in "Talalil" are overwhelming in their sensuality, MOSTAFA AMAR in "Halla" trasforms the discotheque into a big tent right in the sahdow of a desert oasis.

There is a new air in discotheque, a warm breeze coming from the desert, bringing in parfumed fragrances, blue men and beautyful misterious women. Closing the eyes and letting go to these exotic sonorities, is the new dance experience of this end of the century.