Having previously set her Middle Eastern songs to electronic beats, the woman who once described herself as ‘a human Gaza Strip’ (she has Muslim and Jewish ancestry and now lives in, er, Essex) makes her first acoustic album, inspired (except for a great version of the folk standard ‘Black is The Colour’) by the Egyptian sounds of the’50s and ’60s . Her voice is as fluid and curvaceous as ever, but for the first time the crisp arrangements reveal the drama in the detail.
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