Natacha Atlas

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, 47 Frith Street, London
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£33.50
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Ronnie Scott's Club
Frith Street, W1D 4HT
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Leicester Square 0.21 miles

Born in Brussels of Anglo-Egyptian parentage, singer and world music star, Natacha Atlas's multi-cultural background and experiences have helped shape her trademark sound which seamlessly bridges musical and culture divides. Exploding onto the scene in the early 1990s, Atlas rapidly gained widespread recognition for her successful pioneering meld of Western and Eastern music, specifically her use of cutting-edge electronic beats with Arabic melodies and instrumentation.

After several releases and a string of albums fronting the seminal Transglobal Underground, she debuted with Diaspora (1994). Atlas then followed with Gedida (Beggar's Banquet) which won the Victoire Award; the rest, as they say, is history and she has subsequently worked with the likes of Peter Gabriel, Sinead O"Connor and Jean-Michel Jarre. Her last two albums, the critically-acclaimed Ana Hina (2007) and Mounqaliba (2010), have represented a radical evolution of Atlas's artistic horizons.

On both, Atlas combines her hallmark synthesis of Western and Middle Eastern musical traditions and culture with classical and jazz influences and sounds. She appears here playing material from her excellent recent album, Myriad Road, a breathtakingly seamless mixture of contemporary jazz and Arabic vocals that she created with star French trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, She is supported by a superb band featuring pianist Alcyona Mick, bassist Andy Hamill and the brilliant Asaf Sirkis on drums, while Hayden Powell stands in for Maalouf.

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