Influences And Research

Influences

An Inspirational Gig 

Around 2000, I got the chance to see Natacha Atlas at the Wedgewood Rooms in Southsea. She was playing a few warmup dates before a nationwide tour. The most incredible thing about the gig is that she was accompanied by a 12-piece Egyptian orchestra. The first time that I had ever seen anything like this.  

Natacha Atlas / Transglobal Underground 

An Inspirational Album (Gedida – 1999) (Extract) 

Another band that I discovered during this period was “Orange Blossom” who are a French band routed in the tradition of Arabic music but fuse it with other genres. 

Another amazing find from the 2000's

A more traditional arrangement of the same song