The city of Jerusalem celebrated its 3000th birthday a while back and a group of musicians recorded this album to celebrate. The effort is obviously well-meant and fun, but it's for the listener (probably someone born around the time Israel was founded) who wants the extravagant observance - not for the world music listener. The problem (from the point of view of the latter) is twofold: first, Israeli music is the most Westernized of the region and second, this collection is packaged to have to broadest possible appeal. So get ready for stuff that sounds a bit like
Henry Mancini or disco or
Al Jolson (each of which has its place of course, but are not "world music").