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Jah Wobble: Memories
by Geno Thackara
Reworking a classic album, even partially, always risks turning into a nostalgia exercise and/or a misguided attempt to experiment. The prospect is even trickier with something impossible to recapture, such as the lightning-in-a-bottle chaos of Public Image Ltd's landmark Metal Box (Virgin, 1979). Nonetheless, the inimitable Jah Wobble threaded that needle a few decades later with a hard-grooving makeover that ups the production while keeping the spiky edges. ...
Continue Reading...Bill Laswell's 'Version 2 Version - A Dub Transmission' with Jah Wobble, Bernie Worrell, Karsh Kale & Abdou Mboup
Source:
All About Jazz
Street Date September 21st, 2004
Version 2 Version - A Dub Transmission, Laswell's fifth release for ROIR, brings us back to the elemental power that made Laswell's earlier releases so compelling: thick earthy basslines, a bedrock of drums, fiery percussion, blustery guitar and atmospherics-all played by a world-class group of musicians who know how to breath life into a musical whole greater than the sum of its parts. On Version 2 Version the listener is drawn into a ...
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