“They sound like nothing else around…anywhere. Sure they’re mining an exotic aspect of Arabic popular culture, yet they’re doing so in such an exciting and groundbreaking way, referencing freejazz and electronic music and in the process creating new and hitherto unknown genres of sound that sets the pulse racing. You can’t ask for much more than that.” – Cyclic Defrost

Founded by Raed Yassin and Paed Conca in 2006, “Praed” is a band whose musical oeuvre can be described as a mixture  of Arabic popular music, free jazz, and electronics. In the same year, the band made its first public appearance in Al Maslakh  festival in Switzerland, immediately followed by a concert at the Irtijal festival in Beirut. Since then, the band has frequented  numerous international music festivals and toured intensively world-wide, spanning Japan, Europe and Canada. Through  these endeavors, the band has created a large global network with other renowned musicians as musical collaborators. The band consists of two regular members: Raed Yassin playing keyboards, laptop, electronics and vocals; and Paed Conca on clarinet, electric bass, and electronics.