One Colour Just Reflects Another [Import]

1. Take a bunch of hombres called Up, Bustle & Out, commonly found alongside paths in the Bristol area.

2. Travel back in time and learn the meaning of the word "Fonky", an ancient expression used extensively before the beatsy-techno takeover of the planet.

3. Travel extensively around the world, immersing yo'self in various cultures and sampling the result.

4. Come back home, git into the studio and bring out the melting pot. Put heat on high, and add in specific amounts...

- an ounce of Fonky-ness, translated into eighteen different languages - oodles of samples, sounds and atmospheres from previous globe-trotting adventures - two teaspoonsful of the special ingredient....live instruments. (Oh no! the tek-no-boids scream, it's just not natural!!!)

5. Stir and blend for years and years, cultivating a sound that is uniquely your own, and yet also belongs to the bandits of Bolivia, the plains of Africa, the mountains of Turkey....

And lo and behold! A main course that tastes so different from today's fast food take-out moozikal selection!

Welcome to the second Long Player from the much rated Up, Bustle and Out, a soup of many funky tongues lovingly stirred by the quill of Sêenor Roody, whose words and poetry are also featured in the book that will accompany vinyl copies of the album. Here is a band that is intelligent enough to dig deep into the ground and find common root all over the world....

Music - to move ya. From the raw, dirty sound of previous singles "The Revolutionary Woman of the Windmill" and "Hand of Contraband", to homages to lands different from our own...check "Threee Drunk Musicians" for the groove laid down Peruvian stylee.

There is an intriguing atmosphere hanging dark like Shakespeare's 'Tempest' over Caribbean Seas. This is a 'Master Sessions Series' recorded between 2 cities from opposing sides of one huge ocean, capturing 'the smokeyness of Bristol and the coolness of Havana'. Could be mistaken for a scene from Graham Greene's novel 'Our Man in Havana' - in fact, this 2-part album series integrates music, literature, and film into one compelling intrigue.

Conceptualized, organized and produced from within 2 wee Islands: the project knew no such territorial boundaries other than horizons that folded outwards. Drifting dreams sealed like messages in bottles were beached, broken open and the Words, Music and Images took shape from out of the morning sea brume. Departing from Bristol's Port, 'Up, Bustle and Out' docked at Sonocaribe Studios on Street 23, Havana, then teamed up with co-writer 'Richard Egües', whose rhythm section put the Descarga into everything.

The Sound - old style, the Roots - historic, the Studio - classic valves, the Vibes - spiced with sabor, the Cut - Bristol/Cuban blend: sounds and smokes now as good as it did then. So. How did this invitation to record in Cuba with famous Maestros occur? On October 8th 1997 'Up, Bustle and Out' released a timely EP single in memory of Che Guevara on his 30th anniversary since his death in combat. Che spoke and lead a socialist revolution with rhythm - 'Socialismo con Pachanga'. This he conveyed via his soft weapon against capitalism - 'Radio Rebelde'. From the initial days of being a crude secret transmitter, Radio Rebelde has grown into becoming Cuba's principal station today. 'Up, Bustle and Out's' tour and recording royalties were used to send this station updated equipment - an offer that was, in turn, to lead to a rare invitation to record in Cuba. The 'Cuban Master Sessions Series' was born - ¡esta nacido! With so much being said and written about Cuba: passions and admiration running deep and strong, such a famous Island, proud people, definitive colours, a rich and tragic history and, ravished colonial gems, meant that the albums needed enriching with grainy film and a book. Mr Jules 'Shoes' Elvins of 'Waldo Films, London' shot 16 mm and Super 8 footage throughout the Island, incorporating revolutionary archive material, studio frames, urban and inland scenes. These have been eclectically cut and set to the music as a CD-ROM.

And then came the book - 'The Rebel Radio Diary', which often contrasts the Diaries of Columbus when he chanced upon the Bay of Baracoa, Cuba, 1492, and Che Guevara when he disembarked in 1956. 'The Rebel Radio Diary' is termed a 'social-historical, poetic-travelogue' novel that has been edited by Alice Grandison - freelance editor for 'Canongate Books, Edinburgh'. It will be distributed nationally by 'Gazelle Books' to all good book stores. The Diary, as well as comprising direct entries of observation, is also intended to be historical, humorous, real, fantastic, romantic, poetic and, above all, captured through an Aperture of Youth. We leave You with a taster:

"I'd recorded this persuasive percussion the previous night on my portable DAT player at a Santería-inspired backyard event. It was a timeless and weird event: sluggish bare feet pounded the dry earth to the magnifying power of the percussion maestro. It was hypnotic; twirling bodies stirred up the dust and the vision became sepia. In the centre was a black spiritualist who chanted a repetitive line. His voice was weighty and obscured amid the conga's bass frequencies. Other people replied to his chants in concert, but I became lost in a daze of dust that rose and fell like a tired-out lava lamp. My face was sprayed with rum. Someone spat it out in a fine spray that sweetened my face and partially woke me. This was Afro-Cuban Brujería, or witchcraft."