Bedouin Soundclash Shares Video For New Single “Shine On” Feat. Marcia Richards
Photo Credit: Steph Montani
L to R: Eon Sinclair, Jay Malinowski
New York, NY (June 28, 2022) – Toronto’s post-punk, world-beat duo Bedouin Soundclash returned earlier this month releasing the double single, “Shine On (ft. Marcia Richards of The Skints)” and “Something Lost + Something Found”. Today, they share a video for “Shine On” – watch + share it via YouTube.
Co-produced by Jay Malinowski and Colin Stewart, these buoyant and soulful tracks find the beloved duo digging back into their musical roots, steeped in the border-bending sounds the JUNO award winning and platinum selling band is known for. Back at their old home of Dine Alone Records, the tunes hint at a new record.
Discussing the video, Malinowski noted, “We didn’t want to get too complicated with this video, respecting that the song is about the many circular arguments and distractions that take us away from being present with ourselves and our fellow humans that ultimately prevent us from shining a true bright light in this world. We thought let’s keep it simple and honest.
Marcia shot herself walking down the streets of Sheffield, England and we went back to our roots and filmed in Chinatown and Kensington Market in Toronto, the neighborhood where we shot our first video ‘When the Night Feels My Song’. We also filmed some additional scenes on the west coast in Victoria, in one of the first Chinatowns in North America.”
In the spring of 2021, Bedouin co-founder and bassist Eon Sinclair booked an open-ended trip to join Malinowski at his new home on Vancouver Island with the hope of reigniting their once-prolific creative spark. “We didn’t really have a set agenda,” notes Sinclair. “We’d been sending a few ideas back-and-forth between Toronto and Victoria early in the pandemic, and it was a welcome outlet considering everything that was going on. So even though I wasn’t really sure of what I wanted to do next, I thought I’d go out for six months – maybe come back early, maybe stay longer – just to see where things would lead.”
They quickly settled into a comfortable workflow, riffing and writing through the week at Malinowski’s family home and then heading into The Hive studio every couple of weeks with co-producer Colin Stewart (The New Pornographers, Destroyer, Dan Mangan, Black Mountain) to capture the results. Despite it being their first collaboration, there was an obvious and rewarding synergy that contributed to the ‘back to basics’ aesthetic. “There wasn’t a lot of discussion beforehand about limiting things in terms of instrumentation, but I think the way it unfolded was really enjoyable for us – a really powerful sound from basically just guitar, bass, and drums again,” shares Malinowski.
“To me, Bedouin is my and Eon’s relationship, and that’s what keeps this going and feeds our passion for it,” Malinowski asserts. “We’ve certainly tested the limits of this relationship over the years, and yet we keep coming back.”
Sinclair elaborates: “No matter where we are or what’s going on in either of our lives, if one of us picks up an instrument and plays something, everything else kind of dissolves and our shared focus becomes, ‘How can we turn this into something people want to hear?’”
That’s especially true this time around, and while Bedouin Soundclash’s loyal following will surely relish in this return to their roots, the real excitement is in anticipating where the metaphorical stream might once again take them from here.
Single art painted by Jay Malinowski
Tour Dates:
07/09 – Vancouver, BC @ Vancouver Craft Beer Fest
07/19 – Toronto, ON @ Paradise Theatre
07/20 – Stratford, ON @ Revival House
07/21 – Uxbridge, ON @ Uxbridge Music Hall
07/22 – Bayfield, ON @ River Road Brewery
07/23 – Sarnia, ON @ Revelree Festival
07/30-31 – Canmore, AB @ Canmore Folk Festival
About Bedouin Soundclash:
Formed in 2001 and named after Israeli dub artist/producer Badawi’s 1996 release, Bedouin Soundclash’s debut album Root Fire (2001) received critical acclaim before sophomore album Sounding a Mosaic (2004) sent the band global, culminating in a series of sold-out shows and festival appearances around the world. The album featured the smash hit single “When The Night Feels My Song”, produced by punk-hardcore royalty Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains, and the band went on to pick up their first JUNO Award in 2006 for Canada’s Best New Group, along with numerous accolades around Europe.
The follow-up album Street Gospels (2007) earned a ‘Pop Album of the Year’ nomination and ‘Video of the Year’ nomination for the single “Walls Fall Down” at the 2008 JUNO’s as well as three Much Music Video Award nominations for their video for “Until We Burnin the Sun” in 2009.
Bedouin Soundclash released their fourth studio album Light the Horizon in 2010. Produced by King Britt, the album included the singles “Mountain Top”, “Elongo” and “Brutal Hearts” which featured French-Canadian singer-songwriter Coeur de pirate.
The band’s last offering, MASS, was co-produced by Bedouin Soundclash and legendary Philadelphia House DJ King Britt, along with musical direction from Ben Jaffe of Preservation Hall, ‘MASS’ spans two communities, recorded at Marigny Studio’s in New Orleans with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and in Vancouver at St. James Church with the children of the St. James Music Academy. While pulling from their old catalogue, the band journeyed further into New Orleans jazz, afro-pop, electronic and gospel, reflecting a creative rebirth influenced by the cities and musicians that surrounded them.
Bedouin Soundclash have toured all over the world and have shared the stage with the likes of No Doubt, Ben Harper, Damian Marley, The Roots, The Interrupters, Gogol Bordello, Bad Brains, and Thievery Corporation among many others.