The Avenging Myth

The Avenging Myth

Eyvind Kang, viola; Mark Feldman, violin; Marc Ribot, guitar; Jane Scarpantoni, cello; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Shahzad Ismaily, electric bass; Raz Mesinai, piano, percussion, flutes, drum programming, and processing With the end of the war in Iraq nowhere in sight and election time around the corner, media correspondents everywhere, spurred in part by Bob Woodward’s Plan… Read more »

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Eyvind Kang, viola; Mark Feldman, violin; Marc Ribot, guitar; Jane Scarpantoni, cello; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Shahzad Ismaily, electric bass; Raz Mesinai, piano, percussion, flutes, drum programming, and processing

With the end of the war in Iraq nowhere in sight and election time around the corner, media correspondents everywhere, spurred in part by Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attack, are posing the question to political pundits: Are we safe? If all these guys would just take a timeout and listen to Raz Mesinai’s latest album Safe, perhaps the big players could get a new perspective on the issue. Released under Mesinai’s Badawi moniker, the album is like an ambiguous state of the union address. With textures vaguely reminiscent of air raid sirens and adrenaline inducing groves, and the title track itself a dense kaleidoscope of unrelated material that points to the parallels between drone and static noise, other tracks like the innocuous (at first) “The Avenging Myth,” take on a more ominous light. But Mesinai isn’t here to play off our fear. After all, it’s just music.

—RN