Ben Mandelson
Ben Mandelson (born 6 October 1953, in Everton, Liverpool, England)[1] is an English world musician, and also manager and producer.
Punk and new wave years
In the mid-1970s, Mandelson was a student at Bolton Institute of Technology (now Bolton University), where he met Howard Devoto, future Buzzcocks and Magazine frontman. When punk emerged, he formed a band called Amazorblades, being the group's guitarist.
In 1981, he joined Howard Devoto's band Magazine, replacing Robin Simon (who previously replaced a solid member of that band, John McGeoch) and playing on their last album Magic, Murder and the Weather. He is Jewish.[2][3][4][5]
World music years
In 1982 as Hijaz Mustapha, he started playing with Lu Edmonds a.k.a. Uncle Patrel Mustapha Bin Mustapha, which led to the formation of 3 Mustaphas 3, a band that was active throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s. In 1982, he also worked with dub and roots reggae Black Uhuru sound engineer, Godwin Logie, and with ex Public Image Ltd bassist, Jah Wobble.
He was founding director, in 1994, of the world music fair WOMEX.[6]
In 2009, together with Justin Adams and, again, Lu Edmonds, Mandelson formed the band Les Triaboliques[7] and released the debut album Rivermudtwilight.[8]
References
- ^ Chase, Helen Magazine
- ^ Worldy sounds - The Jerusalem Post https://www.jpost.com › Israeli News › Culture News 31 Dec 2014 — Acclaimed English musician, manager and producer Ben Mandelson speaks ... The 61-year-old Jewish Liverpudlian is a seasoned member of the ...
- ^ Let's Yiddish Twist review – genre-hopping dance fun - The ... https://www.theguardian.com › music › mar › yiddish-t... 12 Mar 2015 — Mixing Yiddish klezmer with the musical styles that arrived in London ... impressive musicians including twanging guitarist Ben Mandelson, ...
- ^ Our very own 'bagel poet' Ben... - Yiddish Twist Orchestra | Facebook https://www.facebook.com › yiddishtwist › posts Our very own 'bagel poet' Ben Mandelson in the Guardian today talking about "baiku" ... edition of the podcast pays tribute to the Jewish East End of London.
- ^ Sounding Jewish in Berlin: Klezmer Music and the ... https://books.google.com.au › books Phil Alexander · 2021 · Music Klezmer Music and the Contemporary City Phil Alexander ... network relationship can also be seen in the comments of Piranha Records' Ben Mandelson, ...
- ^ Davis, Barry (31 December 2014). "Worldly sounds". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Les Triaboliques at AllMusic
- ^ Rivermudtwilight at AllMusic
External links
- Information about Ben Mandelson
- "Hijaz (Ben Mandelson) Journal", Ian A. Anderson, Folk Roots No. 213 (Vol. 22 No. 9) March 2001, pp. 44–45, 47, 49.
- Ben Mandelson at AllMusic
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