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Jun 22, 2018 - Czukay produced a series of solo albums, experimented with ambient music, and collaborated with musicians like Jah Wobble, David Sylvian. How can the answer be improved?
A new six-disc Jah Wobble anthology called Redux will be released by the musician’s own 30 Hertz Records imprint in May. This 93-track, six-CD set spans the years 1978 – 2015 and comprises discs themed around Dub/World music, Ambient/Spoken word and Jazz. It also comes with a new album of cover versions. In addition, there is also a forthcoming single in there, called Merry Go Round. Redux: Anthology 1978 – 2015 is out on 25 May 2014. Track listing Disc: 1 1.
VISIONS OF YOU – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 2. VISIONS – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 3. PUBLIC IMAGE – PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. MERRY GO ROUND – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 5. TIGHTROPE – JAH WOBBLE JULIE CAMPBELL 6. BECOMING MORE LIKE GOD – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 7.
BECOMING MORE LIKE GOD – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 8. SAMSARA – JAH WOBBLE 9. POPTONES – PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. AMOR – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 11.
AMOR DUB – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 12. LET’S GO PSYCHO – JAH WOBBLE 13. ONE DAY – JAH WOBBLE & THE ENGLISH ROOTS BAND 14. CAREERING – PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. YIN AND YANG – JAH WOBBLE KEITH LEVENE 16. DESOLATION – JAH WOBBLE 17.
FEEL – JAH WOBBLE JULIE CAMPBELL 18. BUDDHA OF COMPASSION – JAH WOBBLE Disc: 2 1. HOLD ONTO YOUR DREAMS – JAH WOBBLE THE EDGE HOLGER CZUKAY 2. HOW MUCH ARE THEY? – JAH WOBBLE HOLGER CZUKAY JAKI LIEBEZEIT 3.
BLUEBERRY HILL – JAH WOBBLE 4. INVADERS OF THE HEART – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 5. A LONG, LONG WAY – JAH WOBBLE WITH ANIMAL 6. LOVE MYSTERY – JAH WOBBLE OLLIE MARLAND 7. NO SECOND CHANCES – JAH WOBBLE 8. BLOW OUT – JAH WOBBLE 9.
THE BEAST INSIDE – JAH WOBBLE OLLIE MARLAND 10. DESPIKE – JAH WOBBLE OLLIE MARLAND 11. FADING – JAH WOBBLE 12. A13 – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 13.
VOODOO – JAH WOBBLE POLLY ELTES OLLIE MARLAND 14. ENOUGH – JAH WOBBLE 15. SEA-SIDE SPECIAL – JAH WOBBLE 16. ISLAND PARADISE – JAH WOBBLE Disc: 3 1. SOLEDAD – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 2.
OM NAMAH SHIVAH – JAH WOBBLE & THE CHINESE DUB ORCHESTRA 3. L1 – JAH WOBBLE 4. I’M AN ALGERIAN -JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 5.
CHERRY BLOSSOM OF MY YOUTH – JAH WOBBLE & THE NIPPON DUN ENSEMBLE 6. APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN DUB – JAH WOBBLE 7. REGGAE PARTS THE SEA – JAH WOBBLE 8. MUMBAI BLUES DUB – JAH WOBBLE 9. BOMBA – JAH WOBBLE 10.
KANG DING LOVE SONG – JAH WOBBLE & THE CHINESE DUB ORCHESTRA 11. ALSEMA DUB – JAH WOBBLE BILL LASWELL 12.
ANGELS – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 13. K DUB 05 – JAH WOBBLE & THE NIPPON DUN ENSEMBLE 14. HAPPY TIBETAN GIRL – JAH WOBBLE & THE CHINESE DUB ORCHESTRA 15.
NEW MEXICO DUB – JAH WOBBLE 16. ERZULIE – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 17. HEAVEN AND EARTH – JAH WOBBLE Disc: 4 1. SLAVE TOWN PART 1 – JAH WOBBLE JULIE CAMPBELL 2. SLAVE TOWN PART 2 – JAH WOBBLE JULIE CAMPBELL 3. CAR AD MUSIC 3 – JAH WOBBLE 4. COUNTRY COUSIN – JAH WOBBLE & THE MODERN JAZZ ENSEMBLE 5.
HIT ME – JAH WOBBLE 6. RUSH HOUR – JAH WOBBLE BILL SHARPE 7. VIRUS B – JAH WOBBLE BILL LASWELL 8.
PATERNAL KINDNESS – JAH WOBBLE 9. ONE IN 7 – JAH WOBBLE 10. RHONDA – JAH WOBBLE 11.
LOQUACIOUS LORETTA – JAH WOBBLE BILL SHARPE 12. CAR AD MUSIC 6 – JAH WOBBLE 13. MARKET RASEN – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 14. LIMEHOUSE CUT – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 15. WEST END – JAH WOBBLE & THE MODERN JAZZ ENSEMBLE Disc: 5 1.
FLY 8 – JAH WOBBLE 2. NO CHANGE IS SEXY – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 3. BAGPIPE MUSIC – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 4. HIGHGATE – JAH WOBBLE 5. I LOVE EVERYBODY – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 6.
RUINLUST – JAH WOBBLE JULIE CAMPBELL 7. POST MODERN – JAH WOBBLE 8. IT ALL FADES AWAY – JAH WOBBLE 9. OCEAN OF HILLS – JAH WOBBLE 10.
GARDENS OF SUBURBIA – JAH WOBBLE 11. REQUIEM II – JAH WOBBLE 12. SOFTWEAR – JAH WOBBLE 13. CAR AD MUSIC 2 – JAH WOBBLE 14.
SACRED – JAH WOBBLE 15. GONE IN THE WIND – JAH WOBBLE’S INVADERS OF THE HEART 16. LATE 19th – JAH WOBBLE 17. DIVINE MOTHER – JAH WOBBLE Disc: 6 1.
JAVA – JAH WOBBLE 2. THEME FROM MIDNIGHT COWBOY – JAH WOBBLE 3.
THEME FROM THE SWEENEY – JAH WOBBLE 4. LIQUIDATOR – JAH WOBBLE 5. THEME FROM GET CARTER – JAH WOBBLE 6. COMIN’ HOME BABY – JAH WOBBLE 7. THEME FROM THE PERSUADERS – JAH WOBBLE 8.
TAKE FIVE – JAH WOBBLE 9. THEME FROM THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY – JAH WOBBLE. A quick update – my copy of ‘Redux’ arrived Saturday, accompanied by a signed postcard (exclusive to pre-? orders directly from Cherry Red Records). This really is a great box set; six themed discs (Greatest Hits, The Eighties, World Roots, Jazz, Ambient and Spoken Word and Cover Versions) in a robust but not huge box with a comprehensive 55 page book). The sound quality is excellent, and there are only 5 tracks (out of 92) overlapping with his previous 2004 anthology ‘I Could Have Been A Contender’). The selection covers his vast and truly diverse oeuvre, the Cover Versions disc is new recordings (largely of bass heavy theme tunes), and the set will stand repeated listening as one gets to grips with his expansive and innovative career – highly recommended!
Yes, it was the Eighties as you can hear from the first stuttering synths on this overwrought supersession. Bassist was post-Public Image Limited, clearly at a loose end (although a decade away from letting go on Achtung Baby) and multi-instrumentlist Czukay from probably quite liked the idea of getting into a studio for a series of free-flowing sessions. Others who dropped in during the recording of the Snake Chartmer mini-album were Can's Jaki Liebezeit, jazz-funk singer Marcella Allen and guitarist Animal. Wobble had already explored 'Islamic funk' with his Invaders of the Heart band but here got down with some weird amalgam of Eurobeat hooked to Afro-funk of the Talking Heads kind. Mat Snow in NME at the time generously described the five tracks as 'all good but somewhat lacking in unity' and 'displaying more on and off the wall wit' than his old 'boss' from PIL, John Lydon, was managing to muster. In truth it is a lumpy mini-album but this reprise has a little something going for it, a silly vocal part atop wittering techno-beats and faux-funk, slashes of keyboards and guitars and a kitchen-sink approach to production by Francois Kervorkian (which is even more all-in on the opening version of whcih this is a reprise). Not a landmark or even a scratch in sand in many ways, but much more enjoyable than it is 'interesting'.
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