Carine Bonnefoy - pianist, composer, arranger from France. In 1990 she won 1st prize for interpretation & orchestration, special press and jury award Jazz Futur 83 competition in Aix-En-Provence. In 1992 she joined the Paris Jazz Big Band, and played with names as Ted Hawke, Essiet O. Essiet, Didier Lockwood, Henri Texier, Kenny Wheeler, Bob Mintzer and many others. In demand for her talents of composition and arrangement, shes a important figure of the french jazz scene today.
Dakini asked its favorite artists to create tracks for use by the innovative open-minded bellydancers of the Neo-Tribal underground. A dark, mysterious journey into an imaginary Orient, where the saz and the sequencer, the darbukka and the drum loop, are woven into an electric-acoustic mosaic of past and future.
Inspired by the fresh stylings of the tribal fusion bellydance scene, Dakini's 'Tribal Matrix' series offers tracks equally suited to dancers or Djs, exotic electronica that organically blends mid eastern rhythms and instruments with modern production and grooves.