Bedouin Soundclash
'When The Night Feels My Song'
"Shelter" has the classic, speeded-up ska sound of the Two-Tone bands, while the West Indian beat of "Gyasi Went Home" comes from a bass line Eon brought back after visiting his parents in their native Guyana, echoing Paul Simon's African music excursion in "Graceland." "Living in Jungles" has Buju Banton's dancehall sass, "Criminal" the spacious dub sound of Augustus Pablo, "Immigrant Workforce" the Police's trippy world beat and "Nothing to Say" the call-to-arms punk bravado of the Clash's "Washington Bullets."
Their version of the Maytones' "Money Worries" features guest vocals from that band's Vernon Buckley, now part of Montreal's vibrant West Indian community, home of Bedouin Soundclash's Canadian label Stomp, which put out the group's debut, Root Fire, when the three were still college freshmen.
"Where Americans talk about a melting pot, Canadians like to refer to a mosaic," explains Jay about the country's multi-culturalism. "A melting pot expresses the idea of assimilation, that no matter where you come from, you're an American. Here, we maintain our original ethnic identity while still mixing with others."
As chief songwriter, Malinowski's influences include the narrative bent of a Dylan and the social consciousness of a Joe Strummer. "Jeb Rand" was inspired by Raoul Walsh's 1947 noir western Pursued, in which Robert Mitchum plays a man with amnesia whose father was murdered and can't figure out why people are trying to kill him.
With the release of Sounding A Mosaic the band will also be bring their live show to the U.S. as they are slated to play the entire Vans Warped Tour '05.
"That's an example of playing to an audience that might not know everything you're doing," says Jay. "We look forward to turning them on to a kind of music they may not have been exposed to before."
"He understands our sound and where we're coming from," says Jay. "This is more of a songwriter's album, with more vocal harmonies, more cohesive songs. I've been listening to a lot of old gospel and calypso music and I think that comes across, too. I really feel like we're coming into our own sound, finding our voice and hitting our stride."
Jay Malinowski: Guitar/vocals/words
Eon Sinclair: bass
Pat Pengelly: drums
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