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Track Listings
| 1. Space |
| 2. Silence |
| 3. Walking The Horse |
| 4. Solitude |
| 5. L1 Dub |
| 6. Happy Tibetan Girl |
| 7. Kang Ding Love Song |
| 8. Dragon And Phoenix |
| 9. Dragon And Phoenix Dub |
| 10. L1 Horse Mountain Song |
| 11. Yellow Mountain |
| 12. Yellow Mountain Prototype |
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This valiant attempted fusion of east and west could fall flat on its face, but it proves a remarkable success --The Guardian
Nobody could deny that Jah Wobble's Chinese Dub performance was knockout entertainment. Veteran punk and bass virtuoso Wobble has fruitfully married classical Chinese instrumentation to heavy dub rhythms - the music was scintillatingly catchy. You couldn't help wondering: is Jah Wobble the man that Damon Albarn would secretly like to be? --Arwa Haider, Metro (WOMAD)
Jah Wobble gave the performance of the festival. His new project, Chinese Dub, started as a relatively modest commission for Liverpool 08, marking the city's year as European capital of culture, and grew into a tour and an album. 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 --Financial Times (WOMAD)
Nobody could deny that Jah Wobble's Chinese Dub performance was knockout entertainment. Veteran punk and bass virtuoso Wobble has fruitfully married classical Chinese instrumentation to heavy dub rhythms - the music was scintillatingly catchy. You couldn't help wondering: is Jah Wobble the man that Damon Albarn would secretly like to be? --Arwa Haider, Metro (WOMAD)
Jah Wobble gave the performance of the festival. His new project, Chinese Dub, started as a relatively modest commission for Liverpool 08, marking the city's year as European capital of culture, and grew into a tour and an album. 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 --Financial Times (WOMAD)
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Throughout July and August 2008, Jah Wobble, legendary bass player and contemporary renaissance man, toured the UK with his new project, Chinese Dub, a 22-piece Anglo-Chinese aural and visual spectacular. Combining his trademark dub with Chinese melodies and instrumentation, the maverick music-maker successfully married East and West sensibilities, proving once again that his creative adventurousness is far removed from others’ world music dilettantism. Chinese Dub, a studio album produced by Jah Wobble, includes singers Mongolian/Tibetan Gu Yin Ji and Wang Jingqi, from the Mao ethnic minority of China, part of Yunnan Province (both handpicked by Jah Wobble on a visit to China in 2007), internationally acclaimed guzheng player Zi Lan Liao, flutist Clive Bell, and Wobble himself--the Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra also features.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Few musicians on this planet are able to fuse totally unrelated styles of music and let them click. However, if there is one musician alive today that is able to do it, it must be England's Jah Wobble (AKA John T. Wardle). Using his wobbly base lines as kind of glue Wobble can mix diverse musical styles together, make it sound authentic and even sneak in his baselines in styles like English Folk or traditional Chinese music without letting it sound out of place.
This CD is an extension of Wobble's earlier albums Molam Dub (in which he fused Jamaican Dub with traditional Asian singing) and Five Tone Dragon (that featured his wife Zi Lan Liao on the Guzheng or Chinese Harp). It must be said that Wobble's former mate from PIL was almost as quick as the high regarded bass player himself with the compilation "China Dub". Will Asian music combined with western elements be the new trend in world music as African music was in the 1980's? Time will tell. But Wobble will be way ahead of the pack, as always.
Wobble travelled to China to enlist several outstanding vocalists for this album. Gu Yinyi is half Mongolian and half Tibetan and a master of Mongolian and Tibetan singing traditions. Ms Wobble, whose input in this project I estimate is almost as important as that of her better half, seems to be the Jimi Hendrix of the Chinese Harp. Good old Wobble devotee Clive Bell plays flute on several tracks and Ku Hsiung Li does an outstanding job with the bamboo flute on several others.
The CD starts with four continuous songs. The amazing vocal technique of the Mongolians, unknown to the West, is heard and Wobble's wife makes her instrumental entrance on a song called "Solitude". My favourite song on the album is "Happy Tibetan Girl". It has the perfect combination of amazing vocals, studio programming and a catchy bass line.
In my honest opinion this is Wobble's best work to date in a catalogue of 30 albums! (though I must confess I don't own all of them). This album has an originality and freshness to it that seems to be almost extinct in the music world.
This CD is an extension of Wobble's earlier albums Molam Dub (in which he fused Jamaican Dub with traditional Asian singing) and Five Tone Dragon (that featured his wife Zi Lan Liao on the Guzheng or Chinese Harp). It must be said that Wobble's former mate from PIL was almost as quick as the high regarded bass player himself with the compilation "China Dub". Will Asian music combined with western elements be the new trend in world music as African music was in the 1980's? Time will tell. But Wobble will be way ahead of the pack, as always.
Wobble travelled to China to enlist several outstanding vocalists for this album. Gu Yinyi is half Mongolian and half Tibetan and a master of Mongolian and Tibetan singing traditions. Ms Wobble, whose input in this project I estimate is almost as important as that of her better half, seems to be the Jimi Hendrix of the Chinese Harp. Good old Wobble devotee Clive Bell plays flute on several tracks and Ku Hsiung Li does an outstanding job with the bamboo flute on several others.
The CD starts with four continuous songs. The amazing vocal technique of the Mongolians, unknown to the West, is heard and Wobble's wife makes her instrumental entrance on a song called "Solitude". My favourite song on the album is "Happy Tibetan Girl". It has the perfect combination of amazing vocals, studio programming and a catchy bass line.
In my honest opinion this is Wobble's best work to date in a catalogue of 30 albums! (though I must confess I don't own all of them). This album has an originality and freshness to it that seems to be almost extinct in the music world.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Wobble doing what he does best - great synthesis of trademark bass and western musicians with traditional Chinese music - partly courtesy of Mrs Wobble playing the magical Chinese harp. "This can't possibly work" I thought when I first heard about it - such different musical genres...but by gum it does! By all accounts the live performance was a highlight of WOMAD 2008...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
For anybody lucky enough to have seen one of last years concert performances by Jah Wobble and co of this Chinese Dub material this album is a Godsend. The spirit, enthusiasm, power and fun of the event is wonderfully put across.
Watch your Bass though, Jah delivers some of the most bone throbbing bass by anyone for a long time.
This is world music for none muso's.
WONDERFUL!Chinese Dub
Watch your Bass though, Jah delivers some of the most bone throbbing bass by anyone for a long time.
This is world music for none muso's.
WONDERFUL!Chinese Dub
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Chinese Dub
I was introduced to this album by Simon Raymonde, on his Strangeway's Radio show. The song he played was Happy Tibetan Girl. Loved it so much I had to buy the album. Read more
Published 12 months ago by symon
Clash...
Despite the seemingly plethora of positives here, I can't agree with the reported synergy. For me, and others I played this Wobble to, it seemed the Chinese sounding vocals grated... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Retro HiFi
excellent album.
I heard Happy Tibetan girl on a world music sampler - I downloaded the rest of the album on the strength of that and I wasn't disappointed. Read more
Published on 29 May 2010 by Andrew Cowie
Sino Dub
Jah Wobble has already given us Laos Dub (Molom Dub) which was a bit like ancient hip hop, with heavy dub bass lines, but he goes one step further with Chinese Dub. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2010 by Lost Johnny
Top!
Not much to add to other reviews. Just to say that here's yet more of the usual,innovative and high quality Wobble music to be enjoyed by those who know... Read more
Published on 22 April 2009 by Howard Change
Wobble Fan!
Strangest music you will ever here, even better live the mask dance is like ,magic in front of your eyes, recommended without reservation!
Published on 29 Mar 2009 by Dilys
he's done it again
jah wobble has shown once again that music is the ultimate way that people who do not have a common spoken language can communicate with all the expressions and emotions of the... Read more
Published on 17 Mar 2009 by Mr. N. Marcelline
jah wobble-chinese dub
This album really works, bought it on spec, glad i did, hope mr wobble is going to showcase this album live.
AJ
AJ
Published on 24 Feb 2009 by Andrew Johnson
Great album problems copying to CD
I purchased this mp3 as I couldn't wait for the album. I love it. I had problems trying to copy it to a CD as most of the tracks segue and when copying it, it has put clicks in it... Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2009 by Mrs. G. Streeter
Original and brilliant
Luckily i was able to see Jah on tour. I had listened to some of his other work and I really liked it but I wasnt sure what to expect from "Chinese Dub", i thought the reggae beats... Read more
Published on 29 Nov 2008 by vido jones
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