Jah
Wobble:
Deep Space
30 HERTZ
30HZCD
Tracks:
THE IMMANENT / THE
TRANSCENDENT / DISKS, WINDS AND VEILING CURTAINS / FUNERAL MARCH / GIRL
AMAZED AT THE PERFECTION OF A ROSE FAILS TO MEDITATE UPON CHAOS / THE
COMPETITION OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES AND GALACTIC SPHEROIDS IN THE
DESTRUCTION OF GLOBULAR CLUSTERS / DEBUSSY TURNING TO HIS FRIEND, SAID
"LETS GO HE'S STARTING TO DEVELOP"
Running Time: 57:10 mins
review by Scott
M, May 1999 (First published F&F 9)
©1999 F&F Publishing
Yet
another new release from the ever changing Mr Wobble, if only other
members of PiL made so many records! This album is a change in direction
from 'Umbra Sumus' which I reviewed in F&F6, all tracks are instrumental,
and in truth despite having seven tracks, the album is really one huge
piece of music. You can tell by some of the song titles the importance
Wobble has put on them, 'Debussy turning to his friend, said "Lets
go he's starting to develop"'!
The album features
a mixture of heavy bass (of course), synths, Arabic flutes, pipes, drums,
and like Wobble says in the interview it's more a mixture of atmospheric
sounds. The album starts with loud, fast, bass and drums, with an intermingling
of synths and flutes, but as it goes on it becomes more ambient in places,
and again, as Wobble says himself, almost trancey. Though that doesn't
mean to say it's mellow or boring, in fact it's best served loud! I
realise this all sounds very pretentious, but it's not (honestly!),
it's just hard to explain. Some of it is very melodic, and as you'd
expect the bass really does blast out, but special mention also has
to go to the drums, the sound on them is brilliant, real loud and clear,
they're superb throughout the whole album...
As well as Wobble the album features the likes of; Jaki Leibezeit, Jean
Pierre Rassle and Bill Laswell, who perform on a variety of instruments
I'd never heard of before! The good thing about albums like this is
that it exposes you to stuff you probably wouldn't get to hear under
normal circumstances, and if you've got an open mind that can only be
a good thing. I have to admit I much prefer this album to 'Umbra Sumus'.
The first three tracks are particularly good. In fact I have to say
I think this is the best thing Wobble has done since 'Heaven and Earth'.
Check it out... Oh, by the way, don't worry I still hate Pink Floyd!
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