Track listing

1. "Iskanderia" –5:15
2. "Leysh Nat' Arak
   Leysh Nat' Arak
   "Leysh Nat' Arak" is a world music song performed by Belgian singer Natacha Atlas. The song was written by Atlas, Count Dubulah, Hamid ManTu and Attiah Ahlan and produced by Transglobal Underground for the Atlas' debut album Diaspora .It was released as a single in 1995...
   
   " – 6:07
3. "Diaspora" (Atlas/Count Dubulah/Hamid ManTu/Attiah Ahlan/Neil Sparkes) – 6:47
4. "Yalla Chant
   Yalla Chant
   "Yalla Chant" is a world music song performed by Belgian singer Natacha Atlas. The song was written by Atlas, Count Dubulah, Hamid ManTu and Attiah Ahlan and produced by Transglobal Underground for the Atlas' debut album Diaspora...
   
   " – 5:53
5. "Alhambra Part 1" (Atlas/Count Dubulah/Hamid ManTu/Attiah Ahlan/Larry Whelan) – 1:20
6. "Duden
   Duden (song)
   "Duden" is a world music song performed by Belgian singer Natacha Atlas. The song was written by Natacha Atlas, Count Dubulah, Hamid ManTu and Attiah Ahlan and produced by Transglobal Underground for the Atlas' debut album Diaspora...
   
   " – 6:41
7. "Feres" (Atlas/Essam Rashad) – 7:38
8. "Fun Does Not Exist" – 5:56
9. "Dub Yalil
   Dub Yalil
   "Dub Yalil" is a world music song performed by Belgian singer Natacha Atlas. The melody and additional lyrics were written by Atlas and produced by Transglobal Underground for the Atlas' debut album Diaspora...
   
   " (Atlas) – 5:56
10. "Iskanderia" (Atlas Zamalek) – 5:15
11. "Diaspora" (Ballon Theatre mix) - 7:02
12. "Fun Does Not Exist" (Dolmus mix) – 6:21

Bonus tracks

13. "Coulishi" – 5:08
14. "Duden" (Day Trip to Sousse mix) – 7:00
15. "Duden" (Indian Jungle Book mix) – 6:11

Personnel

• Natacha Atlas – lead vocals, dharabuka
• Larry Whelan – saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  , clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
  
• Essam Rashad – oud
  Oud
  The oud is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in North African and Middle Eastern music. The modern oud and the European lute both descend from a common ancestor via diverging paths...
  
  , violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Rafiq Rouissi – dharabuka, riq
  Riq
  The riq is a type of tambourine used as a traditional instrument in Arabic music. It is an important instrument in both folk and classical music throughout the Arabic-speaking world...
  
  , percussion
• Neil Sparkes – dharabuka, backing vocals
• Walid Rouissi – backing vocals, oud
• Peer Khawam – keyboard
  Musical keyboard
  A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
  
  
• Alex Kasiek – keyboards, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Hamed Mostafa – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Ashiqali Hussein, Ali Ahmedaly, Satin Singh – tabla
  Tabla
  The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...
  
  
• Hamid Mantu – drum
  Drum
  The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
  
  s, percussion, keyboards

• Nawazish Khan, Amin Abdelazeem, Faed Abdelaal, Hanafi Soliman, Monir Abdelaal, Wael Abubakr – violin
• Count Dubulah – bass, guitar
• Sokar Al Gohari – accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
  
• Mostafa Alarab – percussion
• Bashir Abdelall – flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  
• Sameer Benjaman – tambourine
  Tambourine
  The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
  
  
• Simon Walker – strings
  String instrument
  A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
  
  
• Graeme Holdaway – engineering
  Audio engineering
  An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
  
  
• Mary Farbrother – photography
  Photography
  Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
  
  

Charts

External links

• Official website