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Dub Colossus: Town called Addis: Big enough to Kill You Dead

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Heavy dub...

It ain't your Grandpa's UB40, LKJ, or Black Uhuru, - but it does bring back memories and makes new ones.

Yeah, - it's modern, the first cut, gives you a Reggae up-beat guitar stereotype, - but that's it. The singing is decidedly not Jamaican. This stuff is 70s Reggae style, combined with Ethiopian POP-World. But it breaks down, grooves, goes-away, then comes back; heavy.

Much fun!! Big horns, and enough eclecticism to make you go, "what was dat?"

This reminds me a lot of Black Uhuru, and very early UB40, - (Madame Medusa), - long before all of that "Red, red, wine" bullshit. Not too long ago, - some of the newer Sly and Robbie stuff got me to go back and buy some LKJ, - one of the best "talk-over" Reggae-rap-dubber-poets" that I've ever heard; and some Black Uhuru, who I really missed.

But this ain't that either. There's a heavy dose of Ethiopian ballads, and horns, mixed together and somehow dubbed. There's Ethiopian Jazz in there too, and at times, it seems like one is hearing some ballad that could be on the Ethiopiques recordings, (featured on that crazy Coppola daughter/Bill Murray in Japan movie).

I know, I know, I know, if you say: "Sordidman, Reggae is dead dude1 Wake up and get out of the chicken pen!"

I will hear that, - but, - Dub Colossus kicks; and I'm not saying sorry...

It's a phat CD.

Ciao,

Both sides of the river, there is bacteria; there must be meaning behind the moaning, is this living?

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