4 years of meticulous crafting have birthed Jazz Gone Dub, Gaudi’s audacious fusion masterpiece. This album is a deep dive into the shared DNA of two revolutionary genres, and a considerate exploration the place improvisational jazz meets dub’s atmospheric weight.
From the opening bars, Gaudi’s imaginative and prescient crystallises. His Hammond organ and Fender Rhodes create lush, textured soundscapes. The glockenspiel shimmers. The Taisho harp provides otherworldly whispers. That is manufacturing as an artwork type, meticulous but respiration, natural but exact.
The forged reads like a roots music Corridor of Fame. David Hinds (Metal Pulse) brings melodic heat to Bach @ Liszt (Bucket Listing) and Fragile Arms. Jah Wobble’s meditative bass anchors Cool Jazztice and Tokyo Subterfuge with that unmistakable pulse.
Ernest Ranglin’s jazz guitar wizardry electrifies Inclined, a whole reimagining of Ernie’s Dub from 2023’s Havana Meets Kingston In Dub.
JAZZ ELEMENTS FLOAT FREELY ABOVE DUB UNDERCURRENTS
Sly & Robbie lay down the rhythmic spine. Their genius creates area the place jazz components float freely above dub’s heavy undercurrents. Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree) marks Deflated and Discombobulated along with his signature bass. Horseman‘s percussive fireplace ignites Dub Lu and past.
Tim Hutton’s brass punches by means of on Cool Jazztice. Gavin Tate-Lovery’s sultry sax and flute work, notably on H.E.L.P (Pleased Elephants Love Pistachio), provides late-night jazz-club sophistication. Sardinia’s Practice to Roots band, Roy Paci, Marcus Upbeat, Mr Woodnote and Vlastur spherical out this stellar ensemble.
Gaudi wields area, delay and reverb like devices themselves. The album breathes. It evolves. It mesmerises.
Jazz Gone Dub arrives through Dubmission Information (LP and CD) and VPAL Music (digital). Lulu Be’s pictures and Matthew Le Maistre Smith’s cowl artwork full this immersive package deal.
Important listening for anybody who craves fearless and revolutionary musicianship.
JAZZ GONE DUB TRACKLIST
1. Cool Jazztice
2. H.E.L.P (Pleased Elephants Love Pistachio)
3. Deflated and Discombobulated
4. Alabaster Moon
5. Fragile Arms
6. Bach @ Liszt (Bucket Listing)
7. Dub Lu
8. Inclined
9. Tokyo Subterfuge
ABOUT GAUDI
London-based producer Gaudi has spent three a long time defying style boundaries. His bass-driven sound bridges dub, psychedelia, and electronica with unmistakable innovation.
A latest Grammy nominee, he’s formed a number of #1 Billboard albums, together with Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Rainford and Metal Pulse’s Mass Manipulation. His UK chart triumphs embody The Orb’s Prism (#1 Dance Chart) and collaborations with Dreadzone, Horace Andy and Dub Pistols.
With 19 solo albums, 350+ productions, and eight movie soundtracks, he’s labored alongside legends from Groove Armada to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. His electrifying dwell reveals incorporate Minimoog, theremin and analogue dub improvisation, making every efficiency distinctive.
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