Box set release from Arabesque includes their 9 original albums, a compilation album "Radio Arabesque," and a DVD "Greatest Hits" with bonus video footage. The original albums are: "Friday Night," "City Cats," "Marigot Bay," "Midnight Dancer," "In for a Penny," "Caballero," "Why No Reply," "Dance Dance Dance," and "Time to Say Good Bye." All the original albums feature cardboard sleeves faithfully replicating the Japanese LP artworks. Comes with a color booklet, lyrics, and a description.

The Apollon Musagète Quartet (Poland) catches the tensions running beneath the work's surface, and in general these are fresh, energetic readings, beautifully recorded.

Armik - виртуоз в своем жанре. Вся страсть и радость испанской гитары, традиционные испанские мелодии с джазовыми импровизациями и прогрессивными ритмами, Armik приготовил чувственный и страстный альбом Casa De Amor.

Armik's Bolero Records debut, Lost in Paradise, paints a lush landscape of a unique style he calls "gypsy jazz," joyfully blending classic elements of rhumba, cha-cha, bolero, jazz, and, taking a rhythmic sojourn down to Brazil, a bit of bossa nova. The bold, percussive opening rhumba track "Barcelona Sunsets" thrusts the listener full throttle into the raw, emotional power of the Armik experience; his powerful fingerstyling is enhanced by a lively piano harmony.

While flamenco forms the musical structure for Armik's fifth effort Isla del Sol, the renowned guitarist adds the warmth of tropical elements to the album's compositions. Spicy and sensuous, Isla del Sol will not disappoint Armik's many fans.

Armik's beautifully blends seductive, snappy toe-tappers as on Mi Pasion's opening track "Calima" (punctuated with scorching horn accents) and "Rumba de Noche" (featuring some of his best acoustic soloing over hypnotic percussion) with suavely romantic gestures à la the sweetly ambient title track and the swaying contemplation "Bolero." These softer tunes, as well as graceful midtempo pieces like "Warm Summer Nights" (which includes a dash of flute and horns), show a gentler side to his artistry - and it's nice to see that melodic expression takes precedence over any tendency towards a barrage of notes for notes' sake. Armik's explored his passion before but, like the sunset, it's always nice to capture the latest moment in time.

Piano Nights is Armik's first-ever piano project. It is a deft treatment of ten original songs that spotlight his ability to devise amazing piano melodies to accompany his internationally renowned guitar virtuosity. The title track is a bossa nova that has the feeling of choreography by being both lyrical and catering to the dancing impulse. "Flames of Passion" combines attributes of both the love song and the dance number. Armik layers the moods throughout this excellent set with beautiful solos and his flair for fusing emotional melodic fragments with intense rhythmic timing. With the addition of Joe Vannelli on pianos, Armik's music is taken to a new level of pleasure. This is a superb offering from one of the world's most gifted guitarists, who now presents the piano as a participant in his great music.

World-class guitar virtuoso Armik plays 12 exquisite songs on his sixth release for the BajaTSR label titled Rosas Del Amor. He tops his best-selling Isla del Sol by using fresh romantic themes based on his journeys through Spain. Each song is as pure and fragile as a moment in life itself, simply said, like the life of a rose. Armik plays 12 different guitars in order to bring the individual melodies and arrangements of each song to the anticipated desire of his listeners.

It's ironic that Bolero Records released this disc to specially coincide with Valentine's Day 2004, as if it's presenting a different, more romantic side of the brilliant modern flamenco player's artistry. The truth is that while he's never gotten the attention that Ottmar Liebert has, Armik's music has been for ten years a vibrant and ultra-sensuous part of the whole nouveau flamenco movement. This hits on the heels of Amor de Guitarra and keeps the love flowing from the get-go, opening with the midtempo dance-driven title track, which blends his sensual strains and string vibrato over sexy percussion lines and instantly catchy horn harmonies.

Flames of Love is the 25th studio offering from nuevo flamenco guitarist Armik. The Iranian-born Armenian guitarist has, since 1994, woven his considerable jazz and classical chops into an instantly recognizable style and sound. For fans, Flames of Love will be a welcome addition to the shelf; for Armik novices this is an adventurous place to start.

An international star who pulls at your heart strings with his romanticism and his gentle and sometimes fiery rhythmic strumming, Armik offers yet another remarkable example of his guitar excellence and nuevo flamenco sophistication on Guitarrista. As one of his most ambitious projects to date, eleven new songs envelope the listener in a array of romantic tones, heartfelt inspiration, and extraordinary experiences - all which hail from years of combining his guitar virtuosity with the fine art of flamenco and world music rhythms.