Jah Wobble - Chinese Dub

 

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.......Selecting a highlight here was near-impossible, but nobody could deny that Jah Wobble's Chinese Dub performance on the Radio 3 Stage was knockout entertainment. Veteran punk and bass virtuoso Wobble has fruitfully married classical Chinese instrumentation (including his wife, Zi Lan Liao on Chinese zither) to heavy dub rhythms – the music was scintillatingly catchy, with guest vocals in Mongolian and English, with affable, straight-talking banter from Wobble. The spectacle – in particular, an incredible mask dancing duo – was jaw-dropping.
Metro, Womad Festival - Charlton Park

........Absolutely Fascinating Dub, and a huge audience, stretching  far  away from the BBC Radio 3 stage, roaring their approval. You have to see it live to see all the unusual elements of the mask theatre and everything else that goes along with it.
Radio 3 Womad Live

Jah Wobble gave the performance of the festival. ... Wobble,played forceful basslines that could have performed CPR two fields away....Dub and Chinese music proved a perfect mixture. The earnest folk melodies leavened the dub’s conceptual self-importance; the dub hardened the Chinese music against kitsch. As if to demonstrate the kinship, the band played Augustus Pablo’s “Java”, echoing with melodica and a guzheng solo dovetailed in as the rhythm dropped out. Midway,....Wobble brought on two mask-changing dancers. As they twirled and high kicked, red and yellow silk cloaks whipping around them, their masks constantly changed from one eyeblink to the next, expressions and colours and designs constantly transforming as hands flashed across faces. It was a moment of stage magic so surprising, and so inexplicable, that the audience was dumbstruck.

Financial Time - Womad Festival - Charlton Park

...........a remarkable success
The Guardian

..........irresistible
The Independent

...... spirited
Liverpool Daily Post

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commissioned by the Liverpool Culture Company for European Capital of Culture 2008. With the support of Arts Council Northwest, Jah Wobble's Chinese Dub toured the UK in July, and stormed the Womad Festival at Charlton Park. For more reviews, check reviews. To see more about the project, check the BBC News. You can listen to the interview and part of the performance from Radio 3 (till 1st August.)

The performance will be a fusion of dub music and Chinese melodies and instrumentation. The instrumentation will be: bass, drums, Guzheng, bamboo flute, the gourd pipe of Yunnan province. Jah Wobble will also utilize the voice of Wang Jingqi, , a singer from the Mao ethnic minority of China (part of Yunnan province) and Gu YinJi, a Tibetan singer .....more

About the Sichuan Opera masks Change

A quick video promo about the Chinese Dub

For press enquiries, please contact:
Helen Maleed 020 7732 4624 / 07986 235 855 helen@greendesk.demon.co.uk

You can now hear tracks from the Chinese Dub Ep from our website: Video

 
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