Quality "World Music"

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While Middle Eastern music may not be in the forefront among those genres American audiences are turning to, the folks at mondorhythmica urge canny world-music listeners that now is a great time to waken the masses. This is the album, La Bodega Lounge, a trippy collection of electronically infused renderings of contemporary Arabic-inspired music from Cairo. Including such artists like Law Benna Eih, Rahet Layali, Da'wet Farah, and others, La Bodega Lounge is great way to spend a lazy Saturday on the porch with good friends and a bottle of arak. In the crazy world, where East and West are closer than ever before, why not bring the Coming Age with a little more groove?