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Track Listings
| 1. Griot |
| 2. Started Off As a Dancer |
| 3. She is the Sea |
| 4. Cobra |
| 5. Tanty Lynn |
| 6. Bullet in the Rocks |
| 7. Money Satan |
| 8. Speak the Name |
| 9. Damballah |
| 10. Generations |
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Third album from poet and musician Anthony Joseph is produced by Malcolm Catto (The Heliocentrics) and featuring Jerry Dammers of The Specials - a mesmerising mix of funk, jazz, rock, Afrobeat, soca topped by Joseph’s distinctive vocal delivery. Musically, ‘Rubber Orchestras’ is rockier and more melodic than previous albums, the title also referring to the range of different atmospheres and grooves present on the album, on which new Cuban rhythms give a more ‘calypso rock’ overlay to the ‘Afrobeat/funk’ base. The decision to use producer Malcolm Catto came about through a mutual love of 70s music and Catto’s extensive knowledge of analogue sound. Several members of Catto’s band The Heliocentrics appear on the album, as well as Catto himself on percussion, plus Shabaka Hutchings on clarinets and trumpeter Robin Hopcraft. There are also the deep, warm vocals of singer Jasnett Lindo that underscore this new, more melodic direction. Last but not least, Jerry Dammers (with whom Anthony Joseph has been playing for years in The Spatial AKA), has also come to the banquet. The legendary founder of The Specials, took to the controls to arrange and enhance a visionary and revolutionary poem, the iconic suite called ‘Generations’. A stand out track on the album, the lyrics talk about Joseph’s relationship to his homeland and its history through his ancestors. They struck a chord with Dammers and his beautifully sparse arrangement with understated vocals marries perfectly with Joseph’s words. Anthony Joseph’s new book, also entitled ‘Rubber Orchestras’, will be published on 15 November by Salt Publishing.
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By CRB
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AJ is a great street poet, following on the likes of Linton Kwesi Johnson in the reggae field. John Cooper Clark in punk etc. Superb loose, but perfect backing from his band. A modern day classic, but harking back to the great 70's heyday of funk.
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Think of We Are The Black Gold of The Sun - add a lot of Fela, Doug Carne and some Mighty Sparrow - get it yet? - great sounds for the summer!!!!!
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11 May 2013
By Opah Jorge
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This is a most amazing collection of songs, the most recent full album, by these guys; and his music is refreshing! Similar to Gil Scott of the 70s, the way he speaks and raps over the jazz of the others' instruments. Wonderfully incorporated elements from the poet Trinidadian.
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