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Vladislav Delay, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare - 500 Push-Up (vinyl LP)
The meeting of Vladislav Delay's electronics and Sly and Robbie's Jamaican rhythm section.
Vladislav Delay met Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare (the most prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo) thanks to a series of jam sessions. Trumpet player Nils-Petter Molvaer had been asked by the Jamaicans to join them and he invited Delay alongside guitar player Eivind Aarset to tag along, which eventually turned into the Nordub project.
The result of these jam sessions turned into an album, mixed and mostly produced by Vladislav Delay, released on the label Okeh. It was also followed by an extensive series of live dates. This one-shot reunion was the beginning of another story: a trio composed by Delay, Dunbar and Shakespeare.
In January 2019, Vladislav Delay went to Kingston and spent some days at The Anchor studios, to record drums and bass with S&R, some voice takes and a series of atmospheric field recordings. Back to Finland, Delay started to experiment with this precious material, mixing and overdubbing, in the comfort and quiet of his studio, based on the island of Hailuoto, Baltic Sea, Northern Finland, giving another feeling to the Jamaican trip.
This became a tribute to the “dub spirit”, but in a very personal way, far beyond any influence or “the obvious”. 500-PUSH-UP is two worlds collapsing, merging, also showing some intriguing approach of the Jamaican groove, used as a filigree, like the echo or the ghost of reggae, converging and conversing with a post-industrial and experimental approach. To file beside experiments—for instance—such as Lee Perry's Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires or the On U-Sound productions.
Also available on CD.
From Mille Plateaux to Leaf, Staubgold and Carsten Nicolai's Raster-Noton, ~scape, among others, or on his own label Ripatti, the Finnish artist Sasu Ripatti (born 1976) aka Vladislav Delay has been exploring various iterations of the “dub culture vs. Electronica”, since 1997. His sonic crafts and unique signature sound has been sought after by an eclectic range of bands and artists, ranging from Massive Attack, Hauschka, Black Dice, Autopoieses, Animal Collective or AGF. Somewhere between the old-school electronica culture, the soundscaping, the experimental paths of Lee Perry and Adrian Sherwood, ghostly clubbing anthems, minimalism, pop, jazz, without being influenced, Vladislav Delay is building a drifting and coherent sound enigma.
Lowell “Sly” Fillmore Dunbar (born 1952 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a drummer, best known as one half of the Jamaican rhythm section and reggae production duo Sly and Robbie.
Robert “Robbie” Shakespeare (born 1953 in Kingston, Jamaica), bassist, is the other half of Sly and Robbie.
 
published in December 2020
 
17.00
EAN : 5411867334996
 
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