MAYDAY MAYDAY

 

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...

 

Invaders of the Heart - Without Judgement, KK records KK039, 1990.
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Bungalow Park    
What the Problem Is    
Anything Can Happen    
A13    
Drowned & the Saved    
So Many Years    
Message from Our Sponsor    
Coypu    
Burger Bar    
What Will You Say    
Spirit    
Voodoo    
Psyche    
Good Ghosts    
Saracen    
Eternal Vendor    
Invisible Cities    
Inferno    
Location    
Uncommercial Road    
Will the Circle be Unbroken

 

 

 

 

 

Here's another one that will give the above a run for its money, the follow-up... 

Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Rising Above Bedlam, Oval 782386-2, 1991.

Visions of You
Relight the Flame
Bomba
Ungodly Kingdom    
Rising Above Bedlam    
Erzulie
Everyman's an Island
Soledad
Sweet Divinity
Wonderful World

 

 

 

 

 

One more Invasion that I couldn't forget... 

 

 

                      Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart - Full Moon Over the Shopping Mall,                     30 Hertz Records 30HZCD10, 1999.

Full Moon Over the Shopping Mall
Ethos
Waxing Moon
Waning Moon
Acting the Goat
I'll Be Sad to See You Go

 

 

 

 

 

Finishing off this tour-de-force of the Wobbly One, a 34 track behemoth of Dub... 

 

 

Jah Wobble - In Dub 2xCD, 30 Hertz Records 30HXCD430, 2016.

CD1 - 
Cleopatra King Size with Temple of Sound 
I'd Love to Take You Away    
I'd Love to Take You Away (Dub version)    
Orion with Bill Laswell    
Metamorphosis (Burnt Umber Youth Dub) with Invaders of the Heart
Blacksmith with Invaders of the Heart    
Blacksmith Dub with Invaders of the Heart
Club Scene Dub    
Kodak Dub    
On the Right Road    
On the Right Road Dub    
Symphony of Palms with Temple of Sound    
Forest Funk Dub with Invaders of the Heart
Dragon & Phoenix with the Chinese Dub Orchestra
Dragon & Phoenix Dub with the Chinese Dub Orchestra
Universal Dub    
Invaders of the Heart (Decadent Disco mix)    with Invaders of the Heart

CD 2 -    
Shinto Dub with the Nippon Dub Ensemble    
Last Days    
Last Days Dub    
L1 Dub with the Chinese Dub Orchestra
Nice Cop; Nasty Cop    
Forest Gate Dub with Invaders of the Heart    
The Way I Feel alias The Sweetest Feeling (new mix)    
Lam Saravane with Invaders of the Heart    
Lam Saravane Dub with Invaders of the Heart    
Alam Dub with Bill Laswell    
Night    
Appearance & Thing-in-Itself    
I Remember that Time    
I Remember that Time (Dub version)
Inspector Out of Space (Youth Inner Space Dub) with Invaders of the Heart
Once Upon a Time in the East    
Tyger Tyger

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ