Check out this recent Silk Road Dance Performance at the Kennedy Center with Laurel Gray, featuring music by Steven Flynn.

Rapture Rumi

The ecstatic, passionate poetry of the 13th century mystic Jelaluddin Rumi is the inspiration for the music on this new album by Steven Flynn. Dark, turbulent, jubilant, these churning melody lines haunt us and rip at our hearts. Joined by master percussionist Armando Mafufo, Steven utilizes ney (reed flute), tar (frame drum), digeridoo, violin, and more in creating this music. Hot rhythms and yearning melodies combine to make songs that speak of the desires of both body and soul. Great music for listening or dancing.

52 minutes. CD $18.00, cassette $10

More on Rapture Rumi:
Music to Dance, Make Love and Die By, by Delilah
A Music Review, by Patina Rayna Maya
A Lesson with Delilah: Rapture Rumi Rhythms

Welcome to the Dance

Audio Cassette - 40 minutes - $10.00

Compact Disc - $18.00

These nine compositions by Steven Flynn, filled with rich textures, heart-felt melodies and compelling rhythms, include music heard on the videos, Delilah's Bellydance Workshop, Volume III, and Delilah's Costume Workshop, as well as new works. The music weaves worlds in the air, for dancers to glide through in their bodies, or listeners to tour in their minds. The songs provide fresh opportunities for the dancer to expand her art with music that, while non-traditional, is perfectly suited to the bellydance. Side Two contains a full 20 minute routine, complete with drum solo.

Tales of the Night Wind

Compact Disc - 38 minutes - $18.00

Seven pieces written and recorded by Steven Flynn for the video series, Delilah's Bellydance Workshop. You'll find baladi, masmoudi, karshilama, chefti-telli, and a beautiful bolero. This is music for the contemporary American bellydancer.

"Here is music for dancing and dreaming. The moods conveyed encourage the imagination to wander through that exotic realm which may only exist in the tales of the Arabian Nights, but which is ever-so-appealing to the Western mind."
Laurel Gray, Habibi Magazine

Inner Dances

Audio Cassette - 40 minutes - $10.00

This is music for mind and body. It is a utility tape, designed for use with various types of physical and mental exercises - dancing, working out, meditating. Side One contains the music written to accompany the Warm-Up Ritual in Delilah's Bellydance Workshop, Volume I. Side Two contains a long, slow drum chant for use with meditation, ritual, or slow physical movement exercises. This is followed by the Zahr, a Middle-Eastern trance rhythm which begins slowly and works into a frenzy. Delilah uses these pieces in her live workshops, and has received numerous requests that we make them available on an audio cassette.