Regenerate the Faithful

Admittedly, I am a sucker for world music – meaning taking Western music and mashing it with various world beats, rhythms, melodies and/or instruments. Ayato, a prolific experimental and improvisational musican, teamed up with Mystified to produce an album that reaches across the world music genre into the experimental electronica — for lack of a better word — with Broadcast for the Sultan #1 (Treetrunk). From what I can glean from the liner notes, Ayato put together several tracks of Middle Eastern music and sent them off to Mystified who then mixed and molded the music into its own being. Thomas Park aka Mystified, if you don’t know already, is quite adept producing music with beats, so it should be no suprise that Park was able to handle the odd synchopation of the Middle Eastern beat as well. Broadcast for the Sultan #1, (yes, there is a #2 released a few days ago) is not only quite an accomplished work, it’s fun to listen to as well. And kudos to Park for giving the link to Malik Nejmi, the photographer of the album cover.