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Meira Asher - nr​.​1

from Female of the Species Volume 2 by Law & Auder

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A composer/performer born in Tel Aviv, Israel and now living in the Netherlands, Meira Asher studied percussion, Tabla, Dhrupad, voice and inter-disciplinary arts in Varanasi-India, Jerusalem, Ghana and at the California institute of the arts. She later taught and performed and is best known as an acoustic, percussive musician, singer, drummer, specialising in West African and Indian traditional music, the foundation on which she has built her identity. She has also studied and mastered a number of sophisticated, cutting-edge composition techniques currently used in electronica.

Art projects Dissected (album and performance 1997), Spears into Hooks (album and performance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1999), Infantry (album and performance with Guy Harries, on child manipulation and child soldiers 2001), and Face_WSLOT (album, book, art installation, and documentary film on female ex-child combatants in Sierra Leone 2004) toured and published throughout the world. Co-founder (2001) of the bodylab art foundation in The Hague.

The track nr.1 is taken from her album Spears Into Hooks.

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from Female of the Species Volume 2, released December 12, 2011
Written & produced by Meira Asher

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Law & Auder Records is a label known for its highly themed, double cd compilations combining an ear for the experimental with a broad ranging conceptual sweep and featuring many of the finest electronic music producers in the UK.

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