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b'Natacha Atlas - Yalla Chant \\nEdit By Petko Turner\\n\\nMost of Natacha Atlas\' earlier albums were produced by Tim Whelan and Hamilton Lee from Transglobal Underground. Diaspora (1995), Halim (1997) (in honour of Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez), Gedida (1998) and Ayeshteni (2001).\\nAtlas has always spoken her mind about the way both she and Transglobal Underground were seen by the UK press back in the late 90s/early 2000. "Someone from the New Musical Express rang us about a feature we\'re to do with them and said \'We don\'t want it to be about the multi-cultural angle\'. In other words that fad is over. And I\'m personally insulted... what other angle is there for us?! I get sick of it all."\\nIn 1999, Atlas collaborated with David Arnold on the song "One Brief Moment". The single featured a cover version of the James Bond theme song from the film You Only Live Twice. Two years earlier, Atlas had collaborated with Arnold on the album Shaken and Stirred, recording the song "From Russia with Love" for the eponymous film(originally performed by Matt Monro).\\nAlso in 1999, she collaborated with Jean Michel Jarre for the track "C\'est La Vie" on his album M\\xe9tamorphoses. The track was released as a single.\\nIn 2003, Atlas provided vocals for the Kolo folk dance song "\'Ajde Jano" on Nigel Kennedy and Kroke\'s album, East Meets East. In 2005, Atlas contributed the song "Just Like A Dream" (from Something Dangerous) to the charity album Voyces United for UNHCR.\\nHer music has been used in a number of soundtracks. Her song "Kidda" was featured on the Sex and the City 2 soundtrack and in the 2005 video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories on Radio del Mundo. In 2003, her voice is heard in Hulk in the song "Captured\\u201c. Additionally, her song "Bathaddak" is one of the songs included in the 2007 Xbox 360 exclusive video game Project Gotham Racing 4. Her cover of I Put a Spell On You was used in the 2002 film Divine Intervention by Palestinian director Elia Suleiman.\\nAtlas was originally billed to star in and provide the soundtrack to the film Whatever Lola Wants, directed by Nabil Ayouch. However, shooting delays caused Atlas to only be involved in the film\'s soundtrack. Her song "Gafsa" (Halim, 1997) was used as the main soundtrack during the Korean film Bin-Jip (also known as 3-Iron) (2004) by Kim Ki-Duk. She participated in the piece "Light of Life (Ibelin Reprise)" for the soundtrack of Ridley Scott\'s Kingdom of Heaven.\\nIn 2007, Atlas collaborated with Belinda Carlisle for Belinda\'s seventh album Voila. She contributed additional vocals on songs "Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp," "La Vie En Rose", "Bonnie et Clyde" and "Des Ronds Dans L\'Eau." Voila was released via Rykodisc in the U.K. on 5 February 2007 and in the U.S. the following day.\\nThe 2007 film Brick Lane features four songs with vocals by Atlas, "Adam\'s Lullaby", "Running Through the Night", "Love Blossoms" and "Rite of Passage". On 23 May 2008 Atlas released a new album, Ana Hina, which was well received by critics.\\nIn 2008, two of Atlas\' songs, "Kidda" and "Ghanwa Bossanova", were used in Shamim Sarif\'s romantic comedy about two women, I Can\'t Think Straight.\\nIn 2008, she sang lead in the song "Habibe" from Peter Gabriel\'s long-awaited album and project, Big Blue Ball.\\n\\nOn 20 September 2010 Atlas released Mounqaliba. Co-produced by Samy Bishai, it explored classical instrumentation, jazz and traditional Arabic styles and was inspired by the poems of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. She is also composing the music for Francoise Charpat\'s upcoming film.\\n\\nIn May 2013, Natacha Atlas released Expressions: Live in Toulouse, an album which showcased her expressive voice using largely orchestral arrangements augmented by Middle Eastern percussion.'