Jah Wobble & The Nippon Dub Ensemble
2010-08-04
Zodiac (upstairs at O2 Academy), Oxford, UK

Recorded and mastered by Pike1957:
Dead centre, front row
Church AUdio CA-11C Cardioids ->
Church Audio ST-9000 Preamp ->
Microtrack 2496 (48khz, 24 bit) ->
Adobe Audion 3.0 (VOlume adjustments) ->
Audacity (track splits, resampling) ->
FLAC (level 8, l44.1khz, 16bit)

Hot on the heels of PiL, here's some Wobble Japanes Dub for you.
This recording came out really well, so crank it up and enjoy!

Here's what the Guardian had to say about the Liverpool show:

Japanese flower arrangements, candles and giant orchids make the stage look more like an oriental horticultural exhibition than a concert venue. Taiko drums nestle alongside a tiny lady in full traditional costume playing a koto, which looks like a cross between a zither and a log. It's hard to remember that Jah Wobble – the serene presence around whom this wonderful audio-visual spectacular revolves – was once one of punk's most violent characters, co-founder of John Lydon's Public Image Limited, a London underground announce; he now lives in the not exactly oriental Stockport.

After a musical life working with everyone from Tibetan musicians to Brian Eno, the influential bass master's latest adventure involves fusing dub with Japanese ritualistic Shinto music. Hichiriki flute flies hypnotically over Can-like drumming. Wobble's basslines underpin all his explorations – they are so omnipresent and melodic you can imagine someone singing them, like songs.

The show is Wobble's most esoteric and yet his most accessible. The superb ensemble of eastern and western musicians find room for storming jazz-punk, blues harmonica, Wobble's 1990s hit Visions of You and sublime female-sung dub reworkings of Dawn Penn's No, No, No and Alton Ellis's lovers rock I'm Still In Love With You. However astonishing, Wobble's musical travels avoid pretension, grounded by the Trilby-hatted Cockney geezer's mischievous, surreal humour. His highly animated percussionist "had a hip replacement yesterday". Joji Hirota, Wobble's great taiko master, is "a party animal. He crashed his car and now it's in the scrapyard." As the stage fills with bubbles, and beautiful Shinto melodies emit a hazy, almost mystical calm, the bassman approaches the mic as if to announce something of great spiritual significance. "Football, eh. What a load of bollocks."

Setlist:

I'm not sure of the titles of a lot of these, but rather than waiting, here it is:
some of you will work these out much quicker than I can.

01 - intro (0:24)
02 - taiko drum piece (2:49)
03 - japanese dub piece (5:54)
04 - japanese dub piece (4:21)
05 - japanese sung piece (6:19)
06 - japanese sung piece (5:02)
07 - No, No, No (8:07)
08 - Visions Of You (4:01)
09 - dub piece (7:23)
10 - I'm Still In Love With You (11:12)
11 - offstage (1:47)
12 - percussion piece (1:20)
13 - Augustus Pablo song (3:36)
14 - dag dag dag (12:37)
15 - outro (1:08)

As a bonus, here are the two songs played as a warm-up by Clive and the koto player.
The sound here was very low, so I had to boost a lot, then reduce the resulting hiss.
Still nice to have:

A01 - track 1
A02 - track 2