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DENNIS BOVELL
Audio Active
Release date :
06-19-2006
Label :
Frontline / Virgin
Tracklist :
01. Dub Master
02. My Little Girl
03. Yo' Love (Can't get By Without
04. Lovers Rock
05. Roots Symphony
06. Audio Active
07. Pow Wow
08. Dream
09. Mix It
10. Zombie Zonez
11. Dubbers Dub
12. Master Dub
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REVIEW
Review written by Benoit Georges
on Wednesday, June 28th 2006 - 9 431 views
Dennis "Blackbeard" Bovell is unquestionably one of the most influential musicians and producers of British reggae in the 70s and 80s. Bovell, best known in France as LKJ's bassist, returns with a series of reissues that illustrates an overflowing creativity and a musical quality still intact. A reissue of a 1986 album recorded with his group The Dub Band, "Audio Active" was a daring reggae album in its day, even if twenty years on, it has not always aged well.
"Audio Active" is not a dub album strictly speaking, even if the title suggests it and it inspired the Japanese dub band of the same name. Only two dub versions of songs from the album appear as bonuses on the tracklisting, with most of the tracks giving us a heavy, crafted reggae on which Dennis Bovell's voice sometimes sits. The album thus has songs and instrumentals in equal proportion. For the former, "Audio Active" opens with Dub master, a good rub-a-dub toasted by Dennis Bovell himself, then with Little girl, which keeps the same festive atmosphere. Other tracks logically flirt with "lovers rock" such as Your love or the aptly named and famous Lovers rock. Finally, among the essentials, let us mention Pow wow, on the version of Whap'n Bap'n that Dennis Bovell had produced for the great I-Roy in 1980.
On the instrumental side, one remains a little sceptical about Roots symphony and its somewhat clumsy piano inspired by Bob Andy's My time. We prefer the title track Audio active boosted by trombone, or Zombie zonez, a darker track with a solo melodica. You can, on the other hand, skip Dream without a qualm, a horrible digital pop soup typical of the 80s. A few good tracks, then, for an album to be reserved above all for fans of British reggae. |
salut..si vous êtes connecté avec le style de dennis bovell (du bon reggae dub heavy & un poil electro par moment, mais juste ce qu'il faut..on ne vire pas dans la soupe electronique sans âme) ne ratez pas lalbum: -decibel-more cuts and dub-(pressure soundsplash)(pure album..ptet 2/3morceau pas terrible sur 16)
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