This album is a tribute by the famous Egyptian percussionist to the late nightclub and film composer and singer Farid Al Atrash. Oddly for a tribute to a singer, the album is all instrumental. For the most part, it is in that style known as "belly dance" music: a medium-sized orchestra with Western strings, bass, and synthesizer, combined with Arabic percussion, flute, dulcimer, and lute (i.e. the oud). Occasionally joining the proceedings is an uncredited clarinet and a quarter-tone accordion, which is capable of playing the larger number of notes in the Middle Eastern scale. One exception to the belly dance form is the single track not written by the tribute's focus: entitled "Farid Al Atrash," it was composed and performed by
Mamdouh El Gebaly. It is largely for solo oud, but understated percussion and (unfortunately) a synthesizer and bass enter a bit before the halfway point.