Badawi, The Heretic of Ether - 49m 15s

Tracks & Durations

1. Intro	1:17
2. Tired Soldiers	5:44
3. A Voice from Six Corners	2:49
4. Santur	1:16
5. Enter the Heretic	3:58
6. Fatal Confrontation (The Death of Gashka Gavor)	1:29
7. Entrance	3:23
8. Arrival	5:57
9. Fatal Confrontation (Gashka Gavor Meets the Gate	1:34
10. Welcoming	5:23
11. Falling	3:11
12. Fatal Confrontation (Revisited)	2:10
13. Return of the Heretic	6:11
14. Awakening	4:44

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Review

A crucial part of Manhattan's "illbient" scene, Raz Mesinai--a.k.a. Badawi the Bedouin--is known as one half of the duo Sub Dub, whose dark soundscapes, heavy beats, and turntable moves echo kindred souls and Asphodel label mates such as Byzar, We, and DJ Spooky. But the Israel-bred, New York-blossomed DJ responsible for 1997's incendiary dub-hop hybrid Bedouin Sound Clash has chops on more than just the wheels of steel. Adept at Middle Eastern hand drums such as the bendir, zarb, dumbek, and darbouka, he's a top-shelf percussionist who puts dub and beat science aside to focus on more traditional Arabic and Sufi sounds on The Heretic of Ether. A musical and metaphysical travelogue of a fictional gypsy whom Mesinai calls "Gaska Gavor," Ether is a sample-free collage of live cello, violin, percussion, keyboards, and voice, developed through long, often austere improvisations arranged into three suites, or "chapters," from the trancelike "Tired Soldiers" to the driving "Fatal Confrontation." Middle Eastern music only an illbient instigator could create. --James Rotondi

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