Natacha (almost) Flight Attendant

2008 release recorded with the Mazeeka Ensemble, Ana Hina is 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.

For the first time in his rich career, Natacha Atlas signs a jazz album at the heart of which its eastern chants flourish without restraint. Since the early 90s when officiating in the London clubs in the world electro legendary Transglobal Underground which she was the voice, the Belgian singer of Anglo-Egyptian origin has always heckle Oriental clichйs. After ten years of more or less anecdotal activities, she crosses paths with a certain Ibrahim Maalouf. As musician from the fact vacillate also those clichйs, their cooperation could only be staggering. "This return, says Maalouf moreover, may disorient those who still see in which Natasha whispers Mon amie la rose, swaying be in one of these colorful dresses with sequins…