Ben Mandelson

Ben Mandelson (born 6 October 1953, in

Punk and new wave years

In the mid-1970s, Mandelson was a student at Bolton Institute of Technology (now

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]

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