About Bedouin Soundclash
Bedouin Soundclash is a Canadian band based in Toronto and consisting of vocalist and guitarist Jay Malinowski, bass player Eon Sinclair, and various session musicians. Their sound has been described as a combination of reggae and ska. Bedouin Soundclash was formed in 2001 and has released six studio albums, most recently in 2022.
The band members met while attending Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. The name Bedouin Soundclash is from a dub record by Badawi, released on ROIR records in 1996.
They released their first album, Root Fire in 2001, and their second album, Sounding a Mosaic, in 2004. During the recording of Sounding a Mosaic, Bedouin Soundclash formed a close bond with producer Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains, with whom they continue to work today.
The album's single "When the Night Feels My Song" was the band's breakthrough single on Canadian radio, charting at No. 1 on 102.1 The Edge CFNY and gaining airplay on commercial radio stations throughout Canada in the summer of 2005. It was the No. 2 most played track on Canadian Radio, competing with Nickelback's "Photograph" and Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends". The song was used in a commercial for Zellers, and was the theme for Kids' CBC from 2007 to 2013. It was used in a 2006 T-Mobile ad in the UK, and in the Teton Gravity Research ski film, Anomaly.
In 2005, Bedouin Soundclash appeared on the Vans Warped Tour, then embarked on a 31-date tour of Canada. They had significant chart success in the UK, where Sounding a Mosaic reached No. 1 on the BBC 6 Music charts; the single "When the Night Feels My Song" spent 21 weeks in the Top 40 and peaked at No. 24.
In 2006, they toured the UK with reggae legend Vernon Buckley from the 1970s reggae duo, The Maytones. They also played with a variety of performers including Ben Harper, Damian Marley, The Skatalites, Burning Spear and The Junction, among others, and embarked on a sold-out tour across Canada, then another UK tour.
Malinowski was ill during the band's concert at the Leeds Festival in 2006. The set finished with "When The Night Feels My Song", which was sung entirely by the crowd, and once the band had left the stage, sung again by the crowd as a "thank you" to Jay for singing when he was unwell. The band came back on to listen, then Jay invited everyone to come see them again when they come back to Britain in the autumn, saying "We owe you one."
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