Rhys-Meyers to move in with Pete Doherty? & other: 2008

Friday, 5 September 2008

Mp3 music: Natacha Atlas

Artist: Natacha Atlas: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Dance
Other
Drum & Bass
Ethnic
Electronic
Folk
Techno
Ambient

Natacha Atlas's discography:

Mish Maoul

Year: 2006

Tracks: 10

Something Dangerous

Year: 2003

Tracks: 14

Groove Alla Turca

Year: 2003

Tracks: 12

I Put A Spell On You

Year: 2001

Tracks: 3

Ayeshteni

Year: 2001

Tracks: 11

The Remix Collection

Year: 2000

Tracks: 9

Guzouri

Year: 1996

Tracks: 9

Duden

Year: 1995

Tracks: 3

Diaspora

Year: 1995

Tracks: 12

Dub Yalil

Year: 1994

Tracks: 3

Gedida

Year:

Tracks: 11

North African and Arabian music is granted a modern, dance-inspiring twist by Brussels-born and Washington, D.C.-based singer Natacha Atlas. A former isaac Merrit Singer for techno-pop band Transglobal Underground, and an episodic quisling of Jah Wobble, Atlas has continued to explore the fusion of her musical roots with Western electronic dance medicine. While Option cartridge bearer explained, "[Atlas] has a beautiful part, which sounds oddly like a blending between traditional Middle Eastern singers and Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins," The Wire wrote, "buoyed by her devotional vocation and the chatter of programmed beat generation, she swoops, glides and goes reach for the empyrean in a way that of necessity no translation". CMJ New Music praised her for having "explored the far reaches of the ethnotechno spectrum."

The daughter of an English mother and a Sephardic Jew father, Atlas grew up in a Moroccan suburbia of Brussels and was heavy influenced by the Arabic cultivation. In addition to acquisition to utter French, Spanish, and Arabic, Atlas was trained in the traditional techniques of raq sharki (abdomen saltation). Moving to England as a teenaged, Atlas quickly attracted attention as the number 1 Arabic stone candy isaac Merrit Singer in Northampton.

Dividing her time betwixt England and Brussels, Atlas sang in Arabic and Turkish clubs and appeared in brief with a Belgian salsa band, Mandanga. In the early 1990s, Atlas became involved with England's alternative stone scene, coming into court on Â¡Loca!'s single "Timbal," Apache Indian's individual "Arranged Marriage," and Jah Wobble's album Rising Above Bedlam, which included five songs she had co-written. Accepting an invitation to conjoin Transglobal Underground as lead isaac Merrit Singer and abdomen terpsichorean, Atlas was featured on the band's albums Dream of one C Nations and International Times. Atlas continued to work with Wobble, as considerably, co-writing and vocalizing on trey tunes from his album Take Me to God in 1994. Atlas' debut solo album, Diaspora, released in 1995, featured backup by Tunisian singer/songwriter Walid Rouissi and Egyptian composer and oud player Essam Rashad. Halim followed in 1997 and Gedida in 1999. Atlas worked with soundtrack composer David Arnold on the score of the Kurt Russell pic Stargate. In 2000 she released a collection of remixes of her life's work so far. Ayeshteni appeared the following spring. Something Dangerous appeared in 2003 with a beguiler and more than pop-oriented sound. The career-spanning C. H. Best of Natacha Atlas was released in 2005 and a year later the soppy Mish Maoul appeared as an court to the music she heard spell beingness raised in Morocco.

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

14th Sarajevo Film Festival opens with `Snow'

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina �

The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival kicked off Friday with a screening of Aida Begic's debut feature "Snow," about life in a village in postwar Bosnia.

The movie was honored in May in a Cannes competition overseen by critics.

Over nine days, the Sarajevo festival - born in a sandbag-protected basement during the Bosnian war - will testify 174 movies from 40 countries. Last year the international event, which aims to backing and promote cinema and authors in Southeast Europe, attracted some 100,000 people.

This year's festival will welcome Kevin Spacey and Charlie Kaufman, as well as regional stars and filmmakers.

The festival started in 1994 in besieged Sarajevo when a few youth people tried to offer citizens some sense of normal life. Founder Miro Purivatra, wHO before the war unionized cultural events in the city, view that residents were hungry for polish as well as for food and organized a showing of Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction."

During the jut powered by a author, the fistful of viewing audience wondered whether the levelheaded of the shooting came from the loudspeakers or from the battles outdoor the basement.

International media reported about the unusual case in the middle of a warfare zone. Several international filmmakers thought the idea should be supported and the next yr shipped boxes of moving picture tapes to Sarajevo with food deliveries.

Partially thanks to the festival, Bosnia's film has begun to boom despite the country's impoverishment. The country has since seen its filmmakers gain prestigious film awards care the foreign-film Oscar for Danis Tanovic's "No Man's Land" in 2002 and the Golden Bear in Berlin for Jasmila Zbanic's "Grbavica" in 2006.

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Sunday, 17 August 2008

Hip Hop?s #1 Magazine, The Source Relaunches

After a myriad of changes including a extremely publicized failure, The Source relaunches side by side week with a 20th-anniversary issue and a new focus.

"It's a very seminal period of time, an chance to both celebrate 20 years of content and the fact that The Source was a leader in chronicling the culture of rap," said L. Londell McMillan, a media and amusement lawyer wHO, along with investment banker Jeffery Scott, purchased The Source earlier this

Thursday, 7 August 2008

Kovalsky

Artist: Kovalsky

   Genre(s):
Acid Jazz

Discography:

Cascade

Year: 2001
Tracks: 11

Monday, 30 June 2008

Nature One 2005

Artist: Nature One 2005

   Genre(s):
Trance

Discography:

Ronski Speed Live

Year: 2005
Tracks: 1

Paul Van Dyk Live

Year: 2005
Tracks: 1

Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Brandi Carlile writes new chapter for 'Story'

Singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile [ tickets ] continues to juggle her support appearances for Indigo Girls [ tickets ] with her own headlining dates throughout the summer months.The Washington State native, who opened some shows for Sheryl Crow last month, also made several appearances with the Indigos last year.Altogether the singer will hit 17 cities through August, with the bulk of the appearances headlining ones. Dates are below.Carlile's most recent studio effort, last year's "The Story," was produced by Grammy-winner T Bone Burnett (Counting Crows, Roy Orbison), and recorded live in the studio."When you record to tape, it forces you not to dwell on small imperfections and keep a lot of the things you would usually edit out ... like a weird breath or a strangely sharp note," Carlile explained in her bio. "When I listen back and hear those things now, I'm glad we didn't take them out because they give this album a real human character."One of the songs on the record, "Cannonball," features Indigo Girls' Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. Carlile also made an appearance on the Girls' latest album, "Despite Our Differences.""The Story" follows Carlile's 2005 self-titled debut on Columbia Records, which garnered critical acclaim and landed on Rolling Stone's list of "10 Artists to Watch in 2005." The singer found an even wider audience when ABC-TV's hit drama "Grey's Anatomy" showcased three songs from the debut.The singer announced recently on her MySpace page that she will be heading into the recording studio next month to begin work on a new studio album.