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Wonderful hypnotic music., Feb 16 2003

I discovered this CD while I was getting a massage and bought it immediately. Don't get me wrong, this is not one of those elevator music new age CD's.Instead it is deeply trance inducing yet strangely grounding. I recommend it highly for bodywork, yoga or making love

Blatant rip-off of a great album., Aug 11 2001

This CD really had a lot of promise and could have been just great. In fact when I popped it in my CD player it started out great. From reading the liner notes I already knew that the last track was also to be found on another compilation album, Arabesque. That album BTW is a must for almost any music collection. It turns out however that no less then four of the ten tracks of "Mystic Groove", all on the last half of the CD, are lifted straight out of "Arabesque". It would have been so easy to replace those tracks by different ones from the same fabulous artists. So, to make a long story short, save your mon and buy the much better and longer "Arabesque"… Read more

A very readable description of the terror under the shah., Aug 5 2001

This is the third book I've read recently by Kapuscinsky, simply an excellent writer and reporter. I LOVED "The shadow of the sun" and in time promised myself to read all his books. For those who want more insight of the events leading up to the Iranian revolution, this is a good read. It describes especially the mundane terror that the secret police in Iran, the dreaded SAVAK was instilling on the people. The only thing totally absent in the book is an analysis of the role America played in all of this, as this organization was in fact set up by the US and initially even with an American at the helm. Despite these serious omissions this remains quite a well written book about an… Read more