Elissa Khoury has already sold six million copies of Bastanak worldwide and after the title track also regularly found airplay on the big city channel FunX, the album is also available in the Netherlands. Elissa is a superstar in her home country of Lebanon and as befits a true superstar, she occasionally causes a stir. The high production costs for this album sparked debates in the local media.
The money was worth it, because Bastanak sounds very professional. Bastanak offers Arabic pop in optima forma in which the ratio between dance numbers and ballads is approximately equal. Undisputed topper remains the title track, the biggest hit in the Arab world of the 2006. (PdK)more
