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PNY 33022LP
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Ghost Producer aka Badawi (aka Raz Mesinai, aka Bilal ibn Yakub al-Badawi) is a prolific producer and artist whom has been on the forefront of underground experimental jazz and electronic music scenes around the world for over thirty years, with a massive catalog of genre-defying albums. Ghost Producer released his first albums starting in the late '80s under the monikers Psy Co. and Ruff Riddim Productions, selling his cassette tapes in NYC, he produced, on average, at least one album per week since 1988 till present day. One of the twenty or so monikers was "Badawi", later being signed to ROIR Records and releasing the seminal experimental dub, punk albums Bedouin Sound Clash and later The Heretic of Ether on Asphodel. Spending time as a child between Occupied Jerusalem, the West Bank (Balata) and New York City (Rock Steady Park) during the height of the B-Boy era in the '70s and '80s informed Ghost Producer's singular sound of heavy driving Sufi rhythms, sonic experiments, percussion, piano playing and sound design which has connected him to a wide variety of artists ranging from Maryanne Amacher to John Zorn, to added elements of darkness to music by such artists as Hanz Zimmer and rappers Danny Brown and Skepta and Double D, among many others. At age 14, Ghost Producer was discovered by visionary jazz and rock musician, Juma Sultan (Jimi Hendrix) whom later trusted Ghost Producer with producing the archive of over 2000 hours from recordings from "Studio We" and the Free Jazz Loft Movement in NYC in the '60s and '70s. As a composer, he has worked with Kronos Quartet and has had premiers at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Ghost Producer has released several albums on John Zorn's Tzadik label. As a composer for film, he coined the term "score design" to describe his work in conceiving and producing scores for films with particularly demanding needs, working on such films as A Late Quartet, The Fountain, Black Swan, and The Wrestler, Black Hawk Down, and more. In 2014, he was awarded as a fellow in the Sundance Composers Lab. The Book of Jinn, is one of many productions done within the course, featuring players/mentors Juma Sultan (percussion), Chandenie (voice), and Shahzad Ismaily (electric bass), with additional student participation from Adam Culbert and Jonah Sollins (aka Goodnight 1500) on synths and percussion as well, then all remixed and rearranged by Badawi into what you hear here, The Book of Jinn.
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