Various Artists - Africa North - World / Reggae - CD

This music was designed as a conduit to ecstasy.

The intensity of these performances, with their sultry inflections of pitch and trance-inducing rhythms, honor that purpose.

This album features various sounds from North Africa ranging from the oud, ghaita and the darbukka drum to the strings of Cairo film orchestras, folk instruments from the Atlas Mountains or electronic devices from Japan and America.