A prototype for "World Beat," George Abdo and his Flames of Araby Orchestra helped bring Middle Eastern music to mainstream North America. This CD presents a compilation from his best-selling albums. Known as "The King of Belly Dance Music," Abdo combines Syrian, Lebanese, Egyptian, Armenian, Greek, and Turkish musical traditions with influences from pop and jazz to create a uniquely American belly dance soundscape, based on the repertoire, instrumentation, and performance styles of the Middle East. Due any time.