Natacha Atlas and her double CD Habibi: Classics and Collaborations, female singer Souad Massi and the album The Definitive Collection and L’Ham de Foc and Cor de Porc.
Her latest album Habibi: Classics and Collaborations is not the first compilation CD by Natacha Atlas, but it is the most unifying one. The CD contains quite some music of her previous CDs like the one with Jah Wobble and Transglobal Underground. It also contains a number of collaboration works with Andrew Cronshaw, David Arnold, Yesmin Levy, David Arnold and Robert Plant.
1. Habibe, trad.
2. Ya Leyli, Natacha Atlas
3. Lahazat Nashwa, Natacha Atlas
4. Hayati inta reprise, Natacha Atlas
CD. Natacha Atlas, Habibi: Classics and Collaborations, (2013), Nascente, NSDCD033
From Souad Massi’s work The Definitive Collection you will hear: Bladi, Yemma, Raoui and Nekreh el Keld.
1. Bladi, Souad Massi
2. Yemma, Souad Massi
3. Raoui, Souad Massi
4. Nekreh el Keld
CD. Souad Massi: The Definitive Collection (2013). Wrasse 313.
L’Ham de Foc (“the hook of fire”) is a band from Valencia. The heart of the group is being formed by female singer Mara Aranda and Efrén López, who plays the various stringed instruments. This couple is also responsible for the compositions and for leading the band. They compose music which is based on tradition around the Mediterranean Sea.
1. Voldrien
2. Per La boca
3. Pandero
4. La Rao
CD. L’Ham de Foc, Cor de Porc (2006), Galileo GMC010
Acknowledgements to the Centrale Discotheek, Rotterdam