(and then there is a long part about Baligh Hamdi, which is too long to write here)INDO-ARABIC VARIATIONS is the result of the collaboration between BALIGH HAMDI and MAGIC KHAN. When the Indian sitar player came in Cairo, Baligh Hamdi imagined to orchestrate some of his titles in order to give an important part to Magid Khan as a soloist as well as conductiong Abdelhalim Hafez's Egyptian musicians.