Browse by Artist: ASMAR, ANDRE AFRAM

Artist:	ASMAR, ANDRE AFRAM
Title:	Race To The Bottom
Label:	MUSH RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MH 216CD

"Andre Afram Asmar has crafted a masterwork of organic, dub-influenced downtempo with over twenty guest artists and vocalists including Scientist, Elias, and Israel, from countries in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean. Over a year in the making, racetothebottom is an ambitious project that uses live instruments as the base for each track, and then accentuates them with samples, electronics, and computer manipulation. Rooted in non-violence, the search for common ground, and support for the world's oppressed, racetothebottom is meant to be a soundtrack to life. Asmar combines seemingly disparate styles in a single track -- Middle Eastern vocals over Jamaican dub, Brazilian rhythms over Western electronics, for example -- to accentuate the harmony created, and to focus on beauty found in cultures so often viewed in a negative light."

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