Jazz Articles about Dub Gabriel

Dub Gabriel: Bass Jihad

by Chris M. Slawecki
September 18, 2005

Primarily written, performed, and produced by Dub Gabriel, Bass Jihad spans and touches all four corners of the world--if “all four corners means Jamaica, India, the Middle East, and Brooklyn.

Gabriel begins this mystical electrical journey alongside Ahad Nazarzadeh-Saaz with “War in the Poppy Fields, a panic of Middle Eastern wind and percussion instruments that drops down into--then yanks the beat back from--spacious reggae chords and echo effects.

All Gabriel's influences--sitar, electronics, percussion, loops, and scratches--come ...