It's nice to see a new release from Wobble, the first actual new set since the wonderful Rising Above Bedlam.
This album continues the mix of world music elements, adding rather more trance dance and techno than the previous album. Still, it's a shifting collage of sound that pulls you from Algeria one moment to Jamaica the next and then manages to mix India with Ireland.
There seems to be a little more balance this time, too, with far less drastic shifts.
Congenial fun, good to dance to, and a terrific album to have playing all the time. (AMG)
This is Jah Wobble's most accessible album.
But that said, it's far from being mainstream, it's too complex, too beautiful. No song is like one other, the music changes, language, singers, rhythm, mood, prose, everything changes - akin to the Red Queen who runs to stay in place, JW moves about building a solid, lasting masterpiece, which yet remains elusive, fluent in all tongues, an abode of the restless.
In the first sentence of "Hundred Years of Solitude" Gabriel Garcia Marquez depicts a man facing execution while remembering a certain occasion when he was a little boy. The lyrics of "I love everybody", exclaimed with a ranting and callous voice, are similarly cruel but upraising, touching life and beyond. "Becoming more like God" is one of the strangest songs I've ever heard - Pop meets/becomes God, a hymn for a church yet to be founded.
If you think this seems all too weird, and who is Jah Wobble anyway? don't be put off - the music is fantastic. (Customer from Amazon)
01 - God In The Beginning
Vocals – Andrea Oliver
02 - Becoming More Like God
Vocals – Anneli Drecker
03 - Whisky Priests
Vocals – Ximena Tascon
04 - I'm An Algerian
Vocals – Abdel Ali Slimani, Ximena Tascon
05 - Amor
Vocals – Spikey T, Ximena Tascon
06 - Amor Dub
Vocals – Chaka Demus & Pliers
07 - Take Me To God
Vocals – Abdel Ali Slimani
08 - The Sun Does Rise
Vocals – Dolores O'Riordan
09 - When The Storm Comes
Vocals – Anneli Drecker, Natacha Atlas
10 - I Love Everybody
Vocals – Najma Akhtar
11 - Yoga Of The Nightclub
Vocals – Gavin Friday, Najma Akhtar
12 - I Am The Music
Vocals – Jah Wobble
13 - The Bonds Of Love
Vocals – Andrea Oliver, Gavin Friday
14 - Angels
Vocals – Baaba Maal, Ximena Tascon
15 - No Change Is Sexy
Vocals – Jah Wobble
16 - Raga
Vocals – Najma Akhtar
17 - Forever
Vocals – Jah Wobble, David Jaymes
Label: Island Records
Released: 21 Jun 1994
Catalogue: CID 8017 / 314-524 000-2
Codec: Flac
Compression Level: 5
Quality: High
CD-rip by alekow (EAC and Flac)
Covers Included (400dpi)
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