Bandamp Beach Bellydance Bonanza!

Garage band Bellydance for Bandcamp Friday September 5th! We’ve found a long lost TGU side project originally released in 2008 and present an EP in digital form and the whole album on CD. In 2007, Tim Whelan, Hamid Mantu and Aly El Minyawi (then percussionist with Natacha Atlas) went into a studio and thrashed out a set of tributes to the golden age of Egyptian surf guitar. There were some originals, some standards, and it was all played raw and fast with no frills.

’ became a cult album with oriental and tribal dancers and was used as the backing for numerous dance choreographies (plus a Sky TV series about supermarkets, but anyway…). Long since out of print, we present, in digital form, the part of the album we still have rights to. The entire album is available on CD.