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...
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...
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...
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...
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