Be prepared to go through the gauntlet of rhythms and musical styles to a pounding and evolving beat throughout DEADBEAR’s “Black Sheep Is Meaty.” DEADBEAR’s Nick Donovan sampled eleven different records bought at his local flea market and blended them together with nearly orchestral melodic electronic passages and robust electronic bass so that recordings pressed to vinyl in the 50s and 60s could come to life in a new way to highlight the world as it is and not as defined in reference to Western culture. The track comes from World Music Market due out August 16 (see Bandcamp link below) and across the album you will hear Korean court music, Yemeni and Tibetan folk, Sudanese prayer songs, Syrian dance music and other sounds that might seem like an exotic affectation elsewhere but here the power and vitality of that music is retained if presented outside its original context and format. He profits from sales of World Music Market will go to charities that help integrate refugees into Western communities and itself an example of true multiculturalism as exists in Donovan’s now home city of Berlin where various cultures co-exist without necessarily having to assimilate, which is also the sound of the music on World Music Market. Listen to “Black Sheep is Meaty” on Bandcamp and follow DEADBEAR and this project in particular at the links below.
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