YES DARLING, BUT IS IT MAGICK?: A CLOUD BELOW AND THE SEA ABOVE

Thursday, August 26, 2010

A CLOUD BELOW AND THE SEA ABOVE

This recordings are from last year when we went on tour and played with Frank Moore in Berkeley for his webradio show at LUVER. Thanks so much for everyone at LUVER for everything. Recordings and album art are done by Mikee Labash and theres a video of the performance available online at their website shot by Linda Mac. We will make higher quality physical CD copies of this for the distro but you can download digital copies HERE and print the artwerk yerself if yer up for it. DIY baby!

MAGICK SHOWS and PERFORMANCES

“Dub offered the perfect score to the world’s deepening post-colonial dusk. Started, so legend goes, by Kingston's King Tubby in his studio on 18 Drumille Avenue, dub is basically this: a song sunk into the cavernous depths of a mixing board, stripped of its secure pop substances, and returned to the world as an electrified monster or vampire. (It's no accident that vampires appear on the covers of numerous dub LPs.) With dub, what was once flesh and bone is transformed into vague melodies that suddenly appear and vanish, moans that rise and recede, and bass lines that move through the echo-haze like phantoms in a haunted house. Dub is the "ghost dimension" of the real pop song; there is no body in dub, just a flickering afterimage of what was once a body.” (Charles Mudede)