FEET: A Global Dance Party

Join the party!

Your feet will move, your toes will tap, your body will sway, and you will find yourself smiling uncontrollably as you listen and dance to this wonderful recording of contemporary dance music from around the world. Another inspiring and fun recording from Ellipsis Arts World Spirit series.

SONGS:

1.CUBA Tiempo Libre El Guanajo Relleno From Cuba via Miami, a brassy, percussive, sweaty, timba floor-filler. Deliriously melodic and propulsive, this is guaranteed dance-fodder.

2. INDIA Shabaz Lagian (Joyful Bhangra Dance) India's timeless vocal traditions and 21st century electronica embrace in mutual abandon. Richly sensual with a rock beat, a song of love and the rhythms of the seasons.

3. SPAIN Ojos de Brujo Ventilaor R-80 A fusion of Flamenco traditions, Arabic flavors and Europop, this song features vocals, hand claps, turntable scratching, guitar, percussion, and electronic wizardry. "If this world has lost its way: dance, dance, dance!"

4.BRAZIL Bossacucanova Telefone A frisky, seductive and slightly surreal re-imagining of classic Brazilian bossa-nova, this is fresh, exciting and contains the double whammy of sax solos and jazzy, sassy electronic grooves.

5.BRITTANY Skilda Airfailarin A cool Celtic soprano flirts with a wall of crunching bass and skirling pipes, with musicians from Ireland, Scotland and Brittany. With Konan, member of the Breton supergroup, Tri Yann, on wind instruments, and vocalist Naia.

6.TURKEY Turkish Delight Oh De Virile, muscular, deliriously beat-crazed belly dance from Turkey. This cut blens traditional instruments, motifs and rhythms with muscular bass lines, eletronica and beats.

7. USA Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers Give Him Cornbread One of Louisiana's greatest icons dishes up piping-hot, urban-influenced nouvelle cuisine. Beau Jocque helped keep szydeco popular with younger audiences, he packed clubs that cater to Creoles eager to dance the night away.

8. MORROCO Hassan Erraji & Arabesque Nikriz Moroccan traditions are set aflame with a fiery oud and sinuous fretless bass lines, combined with piano, clarinet and violin. A fore-runner of the East-West crossover scene this song has attracted international attention.

9. SCOTLAND Mac Umba Glenmambo: Glenmore Scottish pipes and Brazilian carnival drumming collide and collude, a combination which proved to be extremely popular throughout the Celtic world, as well as the USA, Cuba, Japan, Venezuala and Europe. Ecstatic lunacy!

10.CONGO Soukous Stars Sinovela Soukous Stars is one of the most popular Congolese bands of all time, known around the world. A high spirited dance floor celebration, delivering sweet singing and killer guitar licks.

11.EGYPT Natacha Atlas Amulet (TJ Rehmi remix) An original from Transglobal Underground's Egyptian diva gets re-imagined, with catchy beats and shape-shifting vocals.

12.KALAHARI DESERT Kalahari Bushmen of the Qwii Music Arts' Trust Khoi San Music/Bob Holroyd Xlao Tshao (Bob Holroyd Remix) Bob Holroyd layers shifting iridescence onto joyous Kalahari Bushmen chorals, mixing global electronics with 25,000 year old traditional music, to create a delightful global stew.

13.SENEGAL Africando Yaye Boy (Baron Lopez Remix) The greatest Senegalese-Salsa pick-up band of all time play their most indelible hit.