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

Raz Mesinai was born in Jerusalem in 1973 and, although an Israeli, spent time with the Bedouins in the Sinai desert. At the age of 7, Raz came under the musical mentorship of dervish sheik Murshid Hassan, of the Palestinian refugee camp of Balata, who introduced him to Middle Eastern drumming. He became a master of the Bendir and also plays the Zarb and Darbukka percussion instruments.

His spiritual bent developed under the tutelage of famed Hasidic Rabbi and folk musician, Harav Shlomo Carlebach.

Now in NYC, Raz is in the forefront of the NYC Academy of Underground DJs, featuring DJ Spooky, DJ Olive, Loop, Lucy, Soulslinger, and WordSound I Powa.

Bedouin Sound Clash was conceived and recorded in Raz's basement studio with a four track cassette recorder and a multivox echo chamber. Post production, pre-mastering and final digital mastering took place at WK Studios in Manhattan and ESP in Buffalo, New York. Although the record utilizes a new style of dub, it preserves an organic feel with reggae rhythms, analog sounds, and Egyptian and Bedouin percussion