Arabesque
Midnight Dancer
The fourth Arabesque LP, "Midnight Dancer" (initially released as "Arabesque IV" back in 1980) may be called "that song album" in all former USSR states. Its quite paradoxical, but the title track (we mean "Midnight Dancer" here) wasnt released as a single in then-Western Germany or Japan, and even wasnt placed on the Soviet Arabesque Greatest Hits LP. Anyway, "Midnight Dancer" became not just a main song of Arabesque in Russia back in the 80s, but it still one of the Eurodisco symbols here up to now. This song collection is a little bit more straightforward than "Marigot Bay" - most tracks are very danceable with tempo around the classic 120 bpm for the best of any discotheque itself. This Mirumir re-issue is a real deluxe one: all songs are newly remastered from analog tapes, sleeve design fully restored on silver foiled card paper and LP comes with 8-page booklet with song lyrics and rare band photos.