Natacha Atlas and Samy Bishai perform onstage, where their artistic and musical partnership continues to evolve. (Credit: Luc Jennepin/Arabesques Festival of Montpellier)
For over 30 years, Natacha Atlas has fostered a dialogue between Arab musical traditions and contemporary aesthetics. From Transglobal Underground to collaborations with Peter Gabriel, Jean-Michel Jarre, Ibrahim Maalouf, Zeid Hamdan and Angelin Preljocaj, she has built a distinctive body of work in which identity, spirituality and activism intersect while deconstructing orientalist representations.With "Parallel Universe Volume 1," created with her partner in life and work, composer and violinist Samy Bishai, she returns to an electronic sound shaped by science fiction, memory, love, kindness and the fractures of the present. Since her beginnings, she has explored the boundaries between languages, identities, cultures and musical genres, making hybridity not only an aesthetic but also a way of thinking about the world....
For over 30 years, Natacha Atlas has fostered a dialogue between Arab musical traditions and contemporary aesthetics. From Transglobal Underground to collaborations with Peter Gabriel, Jean-Michel Jarre, Ibrahim Maalouf, Zeid Hamdan and Angelin Preljocaj, she has built a distinctive body of work in which identity, spirituality and activism intersect while deconstructing orientalist representations.With "Parallel Universe Volume 1," created with her partner in life and work, composer and violinist Samy Bishai, she returns to an electronic sound shaped by science fiction, memory, love, kindness and the fractures of the present. Since her beginnings, she has explored the boundaries between languages, identities, cultures and musical genres, making hybridity not only an aesthetic but also a way of thinking about the world....
