Bellydance revolutions (2007)

An album full of surprizes. A variety of belly dance beats and tunes like: Bellywood jazz and tribal bellydance, Iraqi bellydance music to oriental classical. Osama Abdulrasol from Iraq on qanun is one of the key musicians of "Bellydance revolutions". Osama is without any doubt a topmusician of worldclass. His inventive style flavours not only the jazzy titlesong of this album but the tribute to the Afghan women "Zarmina" and "Beledia".
There's a selection of inventive classic and modern qanun music and kanoun solos. Bellydance revolutions is the most cosmic bellydance album ever made with 3 tracks referring to the galaxy: Zarmina (the name of the first found Earth-like planet 'Gliese 581g' outside our solar system), Bellydancing 4 aliens and Intergalactic guembri.

Listen the tracks

Funkabelly (bellyfunk)
Al Marah (tribal bellydance)
Tribalistic on myspace
(Mesmerizing 14/8 balkan rhythm on typical balkan instruments like davul and kaval. For advanced professional fusion dancers.)
Zarmina on myspace
This track features a mixture of a arabic rhumba and an Iraqi choubi rhythm. Choubi is a kind of folk style with an hypnotic effect.
Bellydance revolutions (bollywood jazz)
Beledia featuring Abed Halabi on percussion and oud and Osama Abdulrasol on kanoun
Bellydancing 4 aliens
break beat bellydance
Harmattan (used in the movie Isle of succession)
the track was inspired by a heavy sandstorm I experienced in West-Africa.
Enneagram (modern whirling dervish dance)
Slow 9/8 beat featuring oboe, davul, chalumeau
Takkasim qanun (oriental classic)
Davul solo
Intergalactic guembri on myspace

additional musicians

Osama Abdulrasol: qanoun (Iraq)

Alain Braulio: bulgarian kaval

Mohamed Zahnoun: oud (Morrocco)

Alain Braulio: bulgarian kaval on Tribalistic

Abed Halabi: percussion (Lebanon)

Luce (Loes) and Sarah Minnebo: trombone and saxophone

Karin Goossens: clarinet

Music used in the movie "Isle of Succession" of Beau Roberts