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 ¡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. |