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"Parno Graszt's "Annyit Ittam bánatomban: Drunk with sorrow"" from Ez a világ nekem való: The World Is Made For Me

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"Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboy's "Katherine"" from The Best of Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys

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Natacha Atlas

Thu., July 29, 8:00pm

Skirball Cultural Center

Price: free

Natacha Atlas

By Falling James

The Belgian singer Natacha Atlas has roots in the Middle East, and her music marries traditional Arabic styles with modern-day electronica to often-entrancing effect. She first came to attention working with former PiL bassist Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart, an experience that likely inspired her to be expansive and experimental in her own music and in her longtime collaborations with Transglobal Underground. Atlas' delicately birdlike singing flutters marvelously over a bubbling sonic stew of pop, R&B and rap beats, as synths and violins weave in and out of her songs with melodic Arabic embellishments. At times, such as on her most recent studio CD, Ana Hina, her pop instincts can get her marooned on the shoals of mainstream pop, until the Middle Eastern arrangements take her back into more exotic places. Look for a new album, Mounqualiba, from Atlas later this year.

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