Album Notes

Music from the DVDs :
“Fluid Precision: Contemporary Tribal Belly Dance with Kassar” and “Sensual Belly Dance with Blanca” available at www.worlddancenewyork.com

PETE LIST (www.petelist.com) is a New York City based human beatboxer, composer and multi-instrumentalist who performs with various diverse music, dance and theater projects at venues around the city ranging from PS 122, Joe’s Pub, BAM and The Knitting Factory to the Blue Note and Lincoln Center. Pete recently returned from Cairo where he beatboxed and drummed with the Egyptian King of Tabla, Said El Artist (www.saidelartist.com) and New York City based percussionist Raquy Danziger (www.raquy.com) Pete often performs as a solo act creating and layering live loops of beatbox, guitar and vocal textures to build hypnotic songs with the intensity and power of a full band. He is also a founding member and beatboxer of the East Coast Tribal band DJINN. Pete is also a composer and percussionist for the belly dance group PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment – www.puredance.org), and he is an artist in residence with the HYBRID performances organized by Sarah Johansson Locke of Alchemy Performance (www.alchemyperformance.com). Pete is also an accomplished animator and director specializing in stop-motion character animation as well as many other animation techniques for commercials, music videos, and children’s programming. Pete’s releases “The Amazing Headless Boy” and “re:peter” as well as DJINN’s “The Middle East Side” are available on cdbaby.com and itunes or through his website www.petelist.com.