Name: Bahir
Brand: Dexter Story

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SNDW 128LP

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-03-15

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Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Forced Exposure

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060571360342

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Dexter Story

Genre US

African

Label US

Soundway

Dexter Story is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, songwriter, producer, and music director. Raised in a music-friendly household, he developed his musical talents at an early age and went on to front and tour with local Los Angeles bands by the time he was 14. After earning an undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley, Dexter collaborated with renowned musicians such as Wynton Marsalis and Ravi Coltrane. He also worked in various roles within the music industry for 15 years before focusing on his own projects.

Throughout his career, Dexter has collaborated with a diverse range of artists including Sa-Ra, Quadron, Madlib’s Yesterday’s New Quintet, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Dwight Trible, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Mocky and many more. In February 2013, he released his debut spiritual soul album "Seasons" featuring underground and international talent. His upcoming album "Wondem," influenced by East African sounds will be released in October 2015.

In addition to his musical pursuits,<en>Dexter</en> works as the Community Outreach Liaison at the Ford Theatres Foundation in Los Angeles. He currently resides in Los Angeles where he continues to create captivating music that transcends genres.

Dexter Story is an artistic spirit in the truest sense of the phrase. From his work as a multi-instrumentalist for acts like the Sa-Ra Creative Partners, to his management role with Snoop Dogg and his turn producing Dayme Arocena’s 2017 album Cubafonia, Story understands the business from every conceivable angle. But over the past four years, Story has experienced a rebirth, a realignment of focus towards his own musical vision and story.

Initially inspired by the music and cultures pervasive throughout the Horn of Africa, Story translated his experiences into the album Wondem, followed closely by the single Wejene Aola featuring jazz luminary Kamasi Washington, both on Soundway Records. If Wondem was a brief glance into Story’s new creative vision, Bahir is a pinpoint refinement of that purpose. On Bahir, he melds his world into the one he fell in love with so strongly while in Africa.

One way in which he’s done so is by incorporating musicians from both sides of this coin. LA luminaries are featured throughout, as are African contemporaries he encountered throughout his travels. Sudan Archives gives a show-stealing vocal performance on Gold, while the Ethiopian producer Endeguena Mulu adds impenetrable and psychedelic texture to the album’s title track. So Bahir finds the polymath musician not stuck between two worlds, but as a member of both. We get Ethiopian jazz tonalities, Tuareg grooves, ekista dance rhythms, Afro-funk, Somalian soul and forays into more contemporary jazz rhythms, too. Angelenos like Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Josef Leimberg give the record its backbone, while African artists like the Ethiopian singer Hamelmal Abate give Bahir its glimmer and shine.

For fans of: Sudan Archives, Kamasi Washington, Carlos Ni o, Mark de Clive- Lowe, Zap Mama, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Josef Leimberg.

Bahir

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