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A highly experimental world music album that combines heavy reggae-influenced rhythms with Middle Eastern percussion, and the occasional female vocal. From Raz Mesinai, master dubber and percussionist, and one half of Sub Dub (Instinct Records/Asphodel Records). "'Badawi' means 'Bedouin' or 'Desert Dweller', and represents all nomadic people who, like the sounds and rhythms you will hear on this CD, wander but are never lost." —Raz Mesinai ABOUT RAZ MESINAI: Composer, Musician, DJ and producer Raz Mesinai was born in Jerusalem in 1973 and was raised primarily in New York City. Mesinai’s music is a unique hybrid of dance music and avant garde composition. He draws his influences from fiction, mythology, anarchist philosophy, as well as elements of alchemy and mysticism. At the age of ten Mesinai began producing instrumental “breaks” for breakers and rappers in the early eighties. Due to frequent visits between New York City and the Middle East Mesinai developed a knowledge of both Sufi, Jewish, Algerian, Morroccon and Persian musical traditions. This combined with his self taught compositional style and his skills as an engineer and dub alchemist Mesinai developed his incomparable sound. In 1992 Mesinai was recording his own dub tracks under the moniker “The Bedouin” or Badawi, and produced cassettes which he played on a boombox in the streets of lower Manhattan and sold to passersby. He began developing his use of the recording studio itself into a compositional tool, a
Suspicions
Badawi
Suspicions Dub
Badawi
Pressurizor
Badawi
Big Foot
Badawi
Attack of the Giant Fruit Flies
Badawi
FX-57 Missile
Badawi
Lack of Oxygen to the Brain
Badawi
Lack of Dub to the Brain
Badawi
Cyborg Stepper
Badawi
Hi Fashion Version
Badawi
Audio Bomb Squad
Badawi
Turbo Auto Drive
Badawi
Badawi Dub
Badawi
Chamber Of Dub
Badawi
Snake Chamber
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