This collection assembles tracks from her solo albums. In addition to containing original album versions, The Best of Natacha Atlas also features unreleased/rare re-mixes, updated edited versions of her most famous songs and a live track! Beggars Banquet.

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:::::: 484 music album review releases Natacha Atlas:: CDs ordered alphabetially by title:: Artist Natacha Atlas Album Review Ana Hina Label: World Village USA Genre: World Fusion Origin: UK Format: Music CD 2008 release recorded with the Mazeeka Ensemble, Ana Hina is a new direction for Middle Eastern music icon and singing sensation Natacha Atlas. The album finds Natacha exploring a more traditional roots world, again infusing Oriental and Western music but looking to the past to uncover a rich history of musical collaboration. Atlas's voice is heard as never before, a priceless jewel in a rich and eclectic setting. World Village.

Click the link below to listen to samples. Artist Natacha Atlas Album Review Ayeshtani Label: Beggars UK - Ada Genre: World Fusion Origin: UK Format: Music CD 2001 release - the songs swell shaabi style, incorporating trippy beats, sinuous strings, and a disturbing yet undeniable beauty. Click the link below to listen to samples. Artist Natacha Atlas Album Review Best of Natacha Atlas Label: Beggars UK - Ada Genre: World Fusion Origin: UK Format: Music CD 2005 release - Natacha Atlas has a well-earned reputation for being one of the most original and innovative artists of our time, both in the Middle East and in the West. The exotic Arabic scales, rhythms, and textures open up new horizons and create possibilities for the enormous and varied Middle Eastern music scene to communicate outside itself.

This collection assembles tracks from her solo albums, as well as unreleased and rare remixes, updated edited versions of her most famous songs, and a live track. Click the link below to listen to samples. Artist Natacha Atlas Album Review Diaspora Label: MCA Genre: World Fusion Origin: UK Format: Music CD If you have never really listened to Arabic music, this is a very good place to start. Natacha's 1995 debut album bridges Middle Eastern traditional and Western techno music. Hypnotic, exotic, a real treat.

Artist Natacha Atlas Album Review Gegida Label: Beggars UK - Ada Genre: World Fusion Origin: UK Format: Music CD 1999 release - the swirl of Egyptian strings, hip-hop beats, love, and politics can make strange bedfellows, but once again Natasha Atlas, chanteuse and belly dancer, makes sense of it all. She delivers 11 exotic worldbeat tracks full of exuberance, reflection, and yearning that are at once compassionate and militant. Funky beats, kanoun, oud, string sections, and percussion jostle for attention in the background as Atlas's serpentine vocals entwine the listener in tales of passion, injustice, and the mysteries of life.

Recorded both in London and Cairo. Click the link below to listen to samples. Artist Natacha Atlas Album Review Halim Label: Beggars UK - Ada Genre: World Fusion Origin: UK Format: Music CD Natacha's 1997 release - the result is uniquely Natacha Atlas, but appeals to both fans of western music and Arabic pop.

Click the link below to listen to samples. Artist Natacha Atlas Album Review Mish Maoul Label: Beggars UK - Ada Genre: World Fusion Origin: UK Format: Music CD Natacha's 2006 release - one of the original global pop divas, Natacha Atlas has long combined Middle Eastern and Western musics.

Click the link below to listen to samples. Artist Natacha Atlas Album Review Something Dangerous Label: Beggars UK - Ada Genre: World Fusion Origin: UK Format: Music CD 2003 release, this international star combines Middle Eastern music with dance, rap, drum n' bass, R and B, Hindi Pop, film music and French Chanson. Collaborators include Jah Wobble, English composer Joselyn Pook (creator of the Eyes Wide Shut score), Princess Julianna, Transglobal Underground's Tuup, Sinead O'Connor and more. Beggars Banquet. Click the link below to listen to samples. Artist Natacha Atlas Album Review The Remix Collection Label: Beggars UK - Ada Genre: World Fusion Origin: UK Format: Music CD 2000 release - this disc highlights Natacha's early solo career with remixes by several producers, including Talvin Singh, Youth, DJ Spooky. Electronic and beat driven, pleasingly exotic.

Natacha Atlas Songs

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CD Review: Natacha Atlas & the Marzeeka Ensemble – Ana Hina Aptly titled – Ana Hina means “I’m Here” in Arabic – this is ’ best album, a stunning departure for her and in a best-case scenario, a career-defining moment. Atlas was the frontwoman/bellydancer in Transglobal Underground, whose dubious achievement was bringing Middle Eastern melody into electronic dance music (or further electronicizing Middle Eastern pop, depending on how you look at it). As the soft-focus, red-tinted photo on the back cover of this cd makes clear, much of it is a homage to legendary Lebanese siren. Atlas’ sweet, high soprano doesn’t have Fairuz’ gravitas or drama.

Instead, she imbues the songs with a remarkable subtlety and sensitivity: she’s arrived, no doubt about it. Rather than using a big string orchestra as would typically back Fairuz and her contemporaries, Atlas and producer/pianist Harvey Brough utilize a smaller acoustic combo who nonetheless provide lush, rich atmospherics.

This is one of those rare albums where the joy and delight of the musicians literally flies off the cd. It opens auspiciously with the big swell of the strings on Ya Laure Hobouki (Laure, My Love to You), a Fiaruz song by the Rahbani Brothers, the great Lebanese songwriting team from the 50s and 60s. With a similarly anguished, haunting feel, Beny Ou Benak Eih (What’s Going On With Us) was originally recorded by iconic Egyptian crooner Hafez and features quartertone accordion by brilliant Egyptian player Gamal Al Kordy. The title track – an original by Atlas and Brough – is a sweetly swaying “habibi” number that gently builds to a crescendo on rivulets by Al Kordy. La Shou El Haki (Why Should We Talk) is another Rahbani Brothers hit written for Fairuz, flowing along on gentle piano cascades.

Black Is the Colour recasts the Nina Simone classic as Mediterranean cabaret. La Teetab Alayi (Don’t Blame Me) is a Rahbani Brothers classic, a powerful, insistent Levantine dance song that’s been covered by thousands, and this one ranks with the best of them.

La Vida Callada (The Unspoken Life) sets a poem by Frida Kahlo to a noir Mexican cabaret melody written by multi-instrumentalist Clara Sanabras and played on piano by Brough with a stark string arrangement. Hayati Inta Reprise is a rearrangement of a song on Atlas’ dance cd Mishmaoul, slinking along over a bluesy acoustic bassline a la The Fever with a long, hypnotic accordion solo from Al Kordy and finally an intense, unexpected crescendo.

El Asil (Sunset) is a dark, bouncy, suspenseful cabaret number originally recorded by Hafez, East greeting the West over shisha outside a Cairo jazz club. Lammebada is a beautiful, ancient, traditional number that opens with a taqsim (improvisation) by the ney flute as the oud pedals a single note. And then the strings rush in. He Hesitated is a brutally timely original about a soldier watching a door, pondering whether or not to shoot as the strings give the scene a haunting backdrop. The cd closes with the stately El Nown (Sleep), floating on stately layers of vocals. Purists who grew up listening to mono bootleg cassettes of Fairuz or Oum Kalthoum won’t be disappointed; newcomers to this kind of music will be rapt. This one’s destined for a lot of top-ten lists this year.

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