For musician Jah Wobble, it's been a long, strange journey from bassist for legendary post-punk group Public Image Limited to electronica and world music Renaissance man. Born from a commission for the city of Liverpool's Capital of Culture year, CHINESE DUB represents a cross-cultural collaboration between Wobble and a 22-piece outfit consisting of Mao and Tibetan ethnic musicians and dancers, Sichuan opera mask changers, and an Anglo-Chinese dub band. Blending the cutting-edge dub-inflected rhythms of electronica with traditional Chinese instrumentation and folk melodies, CHINESE DUB is an adventurous and wholly original marriage of East and West, as well as the ancient and modern.
Professional Reviews
Clash (magazine) (p.100) - "CHINESE DUB is wonderful, from start to finish....The listener is taken on a journey through Chinese landscapes, guided by the bass of Wobble and reggae/dub percussion."
