Bill Wagner wrote: > The Smithsonian Folkways catalog also contains Dances of the World's > Peoples, Vol. 1: Dances of the Balkans and Near East, as well as Vol. 4 > which is Middle Eastern. > > Typing "Balkan Music" into the Excite search engine brought up a great > wealth of sites for anyone interested. > > Bill Wagner I was making my own, personal, recommendations based on years of (dubious) experience as a Balkan musician and balkan music-addict. Their have been many collections that are just some stuff someone recorded on a portable tape recorder, and others that are weird popular music--There is one collection on a bargain label called Belly Dance Music, that is actually a really great collection of Serbian dance music. Beware of search engines! They are distinctly lacking in taste. Ted ______________________________________________________ Get your free web-based email at http://www.xoom.com Special clipart offer: http://orders.xoom.com/email