Bedouin Soundclash
'When The Night Feels My Song'

But one listen to songs like the single, "When the Night Feels my Song," which warmly evokes Toots and the Maytals' classic "Pressure Drop," and you know where Bedouin Soundclash is really coming from. It's a tribute to the original ska and reggae by way of The Harder They Come and the original Wailers… music influenced by sweet American soul and R&B and made universal by the vision and songs of Bob Marley.

"We're a bunch of Canadian kids making music that is really far from our homes, so we try to make it true to what we grew up with," explains Malinowski. "We take it and do something to make it our own. Bob Marley was the first Third World pop star who proved, though coming from a small island, this music can speak to people around the world."

Taking their name from Israeli producer Badawi's 1996 album, Bedouin Soundclash take the notion of culture clash to its music. The group mixes reggae, ska, dub and rock in a way that recalls not only blue-eyed predecessors like the Police and UB40, but Jamaican icons Desmond Dekker, Bob Andy, Ken Lazarus, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Junior Murvin. Produced by Darryl Jenifer, the bassist for Bad Brains, another groundbreaking band that fused hard core with reggae, Sounding a Mosaic lives up to its name.
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