My voyage into Sir Jah's music led me to this fantastic remix release.
Jah Wobble & Andrew Weatherall together, doing Primal Scream with the Orb taking the duties on the other side.
The 77th anniversary of my entry to this world is May 3rd. So as a gift to myself I'm going (to try) to do what the hell ever I want to this month. I intended to do something like this at the beginning of this year. I felt I had been pushing things too hard last year & wanted to slow down a bit. But this crazee blog thing has a life, a mind, & a tempo of its own & I've been going break-neck. I couldn't even finish April in April.
I'm just going to throw together what I'm listening to at the moment & see what forms of it all. That's what I say right now. We'll see what is transpiring come Memorial Day.
In Febuary I did a month of Dub & Dub adjacent musick, Started out the month with the great Don (Donovan) Letts. Highly successful, it led to Jah Wobble. Since then I've been listening to the Wobbly One quite a bit. Seems like a great place to start & a great way to start off my Birdlegs.
I suppose my favorite Jah Wobble project is Invaders of the Heart. Since the release of Without Judgement in 1990 I have been following their course. It is a varied but thoughtful journey, culminating last year with the double bassed enslaught of NYC with Wobble & my other favorite bassist Bill Laswell working the Invaders.
Here's their first, my first of theirs, & my all-time favorite that I still listen to regularly in its entirety even after 35+ years...
I so wanted to share this one since I first heard it years ago but couldn't come up with a copy (that I could afford). I pieced it together but was missing the fourth track. This month when I was doing the Days of Youth I was determined to share this essential set. Thanks to friend jonder who shared the final track, I am able to present it in full.
Coming out at the time of Brexit, this anti-Brexit protest polemic features one of the finest post-punk supergroups in my opinion. These longstanding musicians with the eclectic mastermind of Jah Wobble collaborated on this CD single in protest of the then-current political climate.
A Very British Coup came about through the creative genius of bassist Jah Wobble, recorded with producer Youth featuring Wobble's former Public Image Ltd band mates Richard Dudanski on drums & Keith Levene on guitar together with lead vocals from Pop Group frontman Mark Stewart, additional bass / keyboards added by Youth with Charlie Wardle on Chinese harp along with loops from Andrew Weatherall / Nina Walsh. It doesn't get much better than this.
Lately everywhere I turn musickally I am running into Youth.
Youth (Martin Glover, Killing Joke bassist) is highly sought after & super active as a music producer, so no surprise, I guess. Just that ole Quantum Entanglement doing that thing that QE does.
The first encounter came about when I was working on the previous TransGlobal Underground share. I mentioned Nation Records & TGU's stable mate, Invaders of the Heart. I have been listening to Invaders of the Heart's first release, Without Judgement since then. It is on my heavy rotation now.
I decided I'd see what other music Jah & friends had that I hadn't really listened to, something new that I'm always wanting to hear.
Sure enough I ran headlong into the Youth/Jah Wobble joint Acid Punk Dub Apocalypse. Even before I gave it a spin I knew I'd like it. As soon as I saw it had not only Jah & Martin, but a guest list that includes: drummer Tony Allen of Fela Kuti's Africa 70 & Egypt 80 bands; loops, beats & samples from Andrew Weatherall & Nina Walsh of the Woodleigh Research Facility plus their dear friend Alex Paterson (The Orb); Roger Eno on piano; Nik Turner on saxophone; & vocal duties by Lara Smiles, Aurora Dawn, Durga McBroom, Vivien Goldman, Rhiannon, & Hollie Cook, I was hooked.