Check out the new video from Dub Is A Weapon for the single Forwarding Home off Vaporized which was released by Harmonized Records this summer.
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Howard Campbell, Gleaner Writer (Jamaica)
When percussionist Larry McDonald released his debut album, Drumquestra, two years ago, it made the pages of several world beat and jazz publications in the United States, but very little was heard of it in Jamaica.
McDonald is bound to get some local media attention at the end of the month as one of seven persons who will be honoured during the July 30 Tribute to The Greats ceremony at Curphey Place in St Andrew.
It is a rare acknowledgement for one of Jamaica's most accomplished musicians.
This review provided us with a few good laughs - recommended!
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Celebrating a brand-new album release in the home of its record label, Harmonized Records, Brooklyn's Dub Is a Weapon returns to Asheville May 14 for a 10 p.m. show at The Grey Eagle.
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Is it dub? No, not really. Is it a great live-sounding (mostly instrumental) reggae album? Yes. It’s well worth tracking down if you like good reggae, played by top quality musicians and well recorded.
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Dub Is a Weapon may not bring about universal peace, but if folks are busy dancing, who has time for war?
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With its trippy vibe that is both edgy and filled with fire, this album is built for the dance floor.
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Click here to read the show review of Dub Is A Weapon and Sister Sparrow at Nectars in Burlington, VT on April 22, 2011.
Vaporized captures the group's diverse energy in a way that mirrors their live shows. The band played and did the dub effects live, with next to no overdubs or post-take tweaking, at a studio run by a friend, the sound engineer for reggae band John Brown's Body. "It's like a jazz record from 1950s," notes Hahn. "We did a couple takes of each song, then picked the one that sounded best. We laid the stuff down and made it happen." - "It's like hearing us live," he continues, "when you can feel all the drama of dub as parts come in and out.
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