Belly Dance Instrumentals is a sensual collaboration between Chalf Hassan and Emad Sayyeh, two of the top contemporary practitioners of traditional belly-dancing music. ~ Steve Huey

Chalf Hassan has become a popular ambassador of Middle Eastern music, releasing albums of drum-centric dance tunes featuring traditional instrumentation like lute, bendire, and oud. Like his other releases, MOROCCAN BELLYDANCE is a valuable resource for practicing bellydance moves or ...

An interesting album of Moroccan music from Chalf Hassan, one of the stalwarts of the ARC label. The music tends toward the more updated end of chaabi, though largely with an oud rather than a gimbri or bendir. The syncopation ...

Chalf Hassan CD discography. Not really a traditionalist, Chalf Hassan nonetheless does a pretty good job of capturing the aesthetic of a location or mood. His oud playing is informed far more by North African influences than Spanish ones (in particular one can hear ...

Chalf Hassan albums. After seeing the great number of belly dance albums the ARC label releases, it is a great pleasure to see a disc of authentic Arabic music. This CD features no synthesizers, no cheesy string arrangements, and no scantily clad woman ...

Chalf Hassan music CDs. Chalf Hassan's New Music Library is born out of his own exquisite gift and extraordinary passion. His vision for creating compositions that are richly Arabian in a distinctly modern way is evident in this breathtakingly original first Arab Quarter album. Chalf ...

Recorded at Ziryab Studios, Casablanca, Morocco. Personnel: Chalf Hassan (vocals, lute, tabla, bendire, tambourine); Said Dad (guitar, viola, bendire); Said Khazar (oud, violin); Mostapha (saxophone); Samir Waijh (keyboards, bass); Majid Dad (drums).

After seeing the great number of belly dance albums the ARC label releases, it is a great pleasure to see a disc ...