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| Location: | Egypt |
| Country: |  Egypt |
| Last Login: | Apr 21, 2008 (581 days back) |
About Me |
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| Natacha Atlas (it’s her real name) was born in Belgium, but is of Middle Eastern descent, with ancestral and family links to Egypt, Palestine and Morocco. Having moved around the world for most of her life, living in Brussels, Egypt, Greece and England, her experience of different cultures has most certainly influenced her music. Natacha’s first break was when she sang on Balearic beat crew !Loca¡’s club hit Timbal, and was drawn into the Jah Wobble circle, singing and co-writing with his just-forming Invaders of the Heart. (She has recently worked with Wobble again, on the 2002 Wobble/Temple of Sound album Shout At The Devil). She also met Transglobal Underground, the London-based multicultural collective who, in blending electronica, dub, hip-hop and funk with Indian, African and Middle Eastern musical forms, were significant role models for today’s world dance phenomenon. The encounter was to turn into a long-standing and happy association. First guesting with them in 1991, in 1993 she became a member of the core quartet of Transglobal, as lead singer and belly-dancer (the latter not some kind of limp tourist-pleasing wiggle but the real raq sharki). A couple of years later, it was the band’s Tim Whelan, Hamid ManTu and Nick Page (a.k.a. Count Dubulah, now of Temple of Sound) who helped her to make her first solo album, Diaspora. In parallel with the success of her solo albums she remained a full-time Transglobal member, and Transglobals constituted her backing band, until they left Nation in 1999, and they have remained allies throughout her subsequent career. Diaspora was released (in the UK by Beggars Banquet/Mantra, as are all her albums) in 1995. It combined the dubby, beat-driven global dance approach of Transglobal with the more traditional work of Arabic musicians, and the result was a critically acclaimed collection of songs of love and yearning. 1997’s Halim followed, and then Gedida in 1999, both intelligently and naturally fusing Middle Eastern and European styles, and delighting an ever-increasing audience in both territories. 2000 saw the release of The Remix Collection, in which material from the first three albums was given the treatment by a variety of remixers, including Talvin Singh, Banco de Gaia, Youth, 16B, Klute, the Bullitnuts, TJ Rehmi, Spooky and the Transglobals. Natacha’s fourth album Ayeshteni was released in 2001. It bears, as its only English-language song, a particularly splendid example of how this woman can take on a classic and cast new light and excitement on it - a mighty rendering of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ I Put A Spell On You. 2002’s album, The Natacha Atlas & Marc Eagleton Project’s Foretold In The Language Of Dreams, was a considerable departure. No beats; a calm, shimmering album, involving a slightly smaller cast than usual, including Syrian qanun master Abdullah Chhadeh, whom Natacha married in 1999. Apart from her own projects, Natacha is very much in demand as a guest singer for therecordings and performances of a remarkably wide range of musicians, including Nitin Sawhney, Jocelyn Pook, the Indigo Girls, FunDaMental, Ghostland, Abdel Ali Slimani, Toires, !Loca¡, Musafir, Sawt El Atlas, Franco Battiato, Juno Reactor, Dhol Foundation, Jah Wobble, Jaz Coleman, Apache Indian (on his chart hit Arranged Marriage), Mick Karn, Jean-Michel Jarre’s Millennium Night spectacular at the Pyramids, Jonathan Demme’s new film The Truth About Charlie, and David Arnold’s film scores including Stargate and Die Another Day. |
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Music:Member Since: 12/6/2005Band Website: myspace.com/natachaatlasofficial Influences: Electronica, Arabic, RAI, Middle Eastern Bellydance, Indian, Regaee... a melting pot of all things. Sounds Like: Transglobal Underground, Juno Reactor, Ekova, DJ Cheb I Sabbah, Azam Ali, Amina, Bjork, Amr Diab, Rachid Taha, Cheb Mami and others. Type of Label: Major |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Electronica / Afro-beat / Other) |
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Transglobal Underground, CHEB i SABBAH, Temple of Sound, sofiane saidi, Idan Raichel Project, Rachid Taha, Yasmin Levy, Niyaz, Be'Reshit, Oum Kalthoum, Dikla, Rhea's Obsession, Brian Eno, LOOP GURU (check out Loungeclash! in top box), KARSH KALE, Putumayo World Music, lenzez, Shakti, CalabashMusic, Natacha Atlas (official site), Desvarios, Frédéric Perroux, Neil Sparkes and the Last tribe, Mariame BAJJOU, MELTOSH, TRIBALGROOVES, Tarhana "nomads in music", Kinatas, mercedes, Veluvian, AMY LEE, MΞZMΞRΞYΞZ {( eye c u )}, DJ SOSO, Surfin USA, JoSeFaL, ELHAM, PuRRR !, guy, VULCAN PROJECT, Aquila Turton, Se-Ba, Roda, Ziga Koritnik, SUFI GARAGE, Monkey Village, Reed Rickert, Like Deities, ZAMA, MamaEast/R.I.P. Eddie B., Samia Tawil, Son of Live, Marc Bienne, * UNIQUE.FR ON 5 ELEMENTS *, tamaki, HUS2B, kaoui, raymond58, Christine, XpeZialKate, Junior Otamon, Isabelle Pasco (Site Officiel), Alicia, Roshane, Satyen Thaker, Secret Archives of the Vatican
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