Jah Wobble & The Nippon Dub Ensemble [24-bit]
2011-01-22
Arches
Glasgow, UK.
Celtic Connections Festival
1.83GB

Setlist:

01. Intro
02. Cherry Blossom of my Youth
03. K Dub 05
04. Hokkai Bon Uta
05. Java
06. I'm Still in Love with You, Boy
07. (No, No, No) You Don't Love Me
08.
09. Visions of You
10. West End
11. 9
12. 7
13. Ma - Country Cousin

Total: [01:36:17]

Lineage:

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Taper: clawhammer

Line up:

Jah Wobble - bass, vocal
Claire Rose - vocals
Clive Bell - flutes, harmonica, melodica
Keiko Kitamura - koto, vocal
Emi Watanabe - flute, vocal
Kumiko Suzuki - taiko, percussion, vocal
Chris Cookson - guitar
Marc Layton-Bennet - drums
Neville Murray - percussion
Sean Corby - trumpet, french horn
George King - Keyboard

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Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 are songs taken from the Jah Wobble & the Nippon Dub Ensemble album "Japanese Dub". Track 5 is a cover version of Augustus Pablo's
"Java", which Jah Wobble jokingly says "ticks all the boxes, because essentially this is a tick-box exercise", referring to the song's dub reggae origins
and "oriental" melody. Claire Rose provides beautiful vocals for tracks 6, 7 and 8, however, I was unable to find the title of track 8.
Visions of You is one of Jah Wobble's older songs. Tracks 10, 11, and 12 are taken from the Jah Wobble and the Modern Jazz Ensemble album "7". The track
titles that are simply numbers are indeed the correct titles. Track 13 is the encore and is a combination of the song "ma" from "Japanese Dub" and "Country
Cousin" from the "7" album. The show was part of the 2011 Celtic Connections held in Glasgow and Jah Wobble attempts to convince the audience of the links
between this music and Celtic music. You can make your own mind up about the links. Also, the manner in which Jah Wobble greets the audience at the beginning
of the show is probably the best intro I've seen as he tells of his recent illness in graphic detail while encouraging cheers from the crowd!

According to the Guardian newspaper:

The latest intriguing project from Cockney cross-cultural veteran Jah Wobble, who’s worked with such illustrious fellow mavericks as Brian Eno, Massive
Attack, Bill Laswell and Björk, aligns his seismic bass grooves and love of dub reggae with the otherworldly sounds of Japanese music. Traditional folk songs
and instrumentation, taiko drumming and Shinto ritual feature alongside Wobble’s bass, keyboards and programming. “One of the great English originals.”