Raz Mesinai – The Battleground

Audio Editor & Tracksuit Enthusiast: Raz Mesinai is a prolific record producer, multi-instrumentalist, film composer, sound designer, filmmaker, writer, educator and activist for artists rights from New York City. Since the late 1980s, Mesinai has produced hundreds of albums under many monikers including Sub Dub, Badawi, The Bedouin, Psy Co., and under his own name and has released records on such notable labels as Asphodel and ROIR Tzadik. As a film composer and score consultant, Mesinai has worked with Darren Aronofsky, Ridley Scott, Jonathan Demme and Yaron Zilberman. In 2015, Raz Mesinai founded the Underground Producers Alliance, the premier artist development agency in NYC.

Raz Mesinai / 23 Sep 2020

Field Recording Tattoos

The Sound of Lockdown

Long gone are the days of walk-ins from sailors on shore leave or drunken bridesmaids. Now it is all about booking months in advance, getting tested for COVID-19 and being respectful of everyone’s safe space. A tattoo has become one mistake too expensive, and, potentially dangerous, to get without proper consideration.(...)

Women in front. Beirut, November 2019.

Raz Mesinai / 09 Sep 2020

This is What Lebanon Sounds Like

Capturing the October Revolution

Clanging pots, banging cans, all playing in unison. You'd be forgiven for thinking this was a concert, not a demonstration. But, this was Beirut, at the start of the October Revolution and these were demonstrators blurring the line between music and politics. (...)

Raz Mesinai / 14 Aug 2020

Sonic Politics

Sound is Power

Black Lives Matter is a human rights movement. It’s about the discrimination that people of colour experience today, in democracies that supposedly guarantee equal rights.(...)