RobL

This album is fantastic, can't find a download key for it right now. But highly recommend you guys check this one out if you can. here is a write up from their facebook page. you can listen to tracks on http://blackdub.jiverecords.com/music http://www.myspace.com/blackdubmusic Black Dub is the latest project from acclaimed musician and producer Daniel Lanois, a legendary guitarist and composer who has produced seminal albums for U2, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Willie Nelson and Neil Young. Lanois is what historians like to call a musician’s musician. In Lanois’ own words… Black Dub is essentially a three-piece band with a high level of musicianship. We don’t operate on a technological grid. Nor are we tied to a page of fixed notes. Our songs are fluid. Often recorded live. One take. No overdubs. It’s a very old fashioned idea really. I think that might be why we get such a strong response on YouTube. Each video we create is a live musical performance shot with a hand-held camera seen through the eyes of one individual. No cuts. No edits. It’s clear that people still have an appetite for something honest and authentic with real musicians playing live. In these sad times of prepackaged music, people yearn to experience something soulful, heartfelt, something meaningful. As simple as it sounds, real music is a rare commodity these days. Our first CD is very real - kind of a rock thing, steeped in the Jamaican culture of dub, which I love. On a good day, I see myself carrying the torch of [famed Jamaican producer] Lee Scratch Perry. I wrote this music from a dub perspective, which I believe is very soulful. What do I mean by soul? Soul music is a music that needs to exist, for the right reasons, beyond business preconceptions – natural reasons that resonate deep inside. I think this band has it. Whether we’re playing at a club or in the studio, at our best, there is something breathless and spontaneous going on here. On Brian Blade… Every stroke of Brian Blade’s drumming has church in it. This man grew up in the band at his father’s Baptist church in Shreveport, Louisiana, so he’s been serving singers all his life. A gospel choir is a mighty force and you can’t serve that kind of singing if you are a fake with a big ego. This is music that demands respect and humility. That’s what makes Brian’s playing so pure and free. In addition, Brian honed his skills studying with New Orleans masters Ellis Marsalis, David Lee, Jr. Bill Huntington, Mike Pellera, George French, Germaine Bazzle, Steve Masakowski and John Mahoney. As a drummer, Brian is a true original, so inventive he never plays the same thing twice. Don’t take my word for it. Ask jazz stars like Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Joshua Redman and Bill Frisell, with whom Brian has also worked. Or songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Seal and Nora Jones. Plus, Brian recorded several albums with his own bands, the Brian Blade Fellowship and Perceptual, as well as a solo album that came out last year. On Trixie Whitley… Trixie Whitley is an amazing singer with such a strong sense of commitment in her voice. She grew up on Etta James and the classic soul singers. Talk about soul. She’s got it, in her blood. Trixie comes from a family of musicians in Texas and New Orleans - her father being the late great blues singer Chris Whitley, a friend who I was lucky enough to work with many years ago. Trixie is young and full of fire: the voice of a generation. Words from the songstress herself… Black Dub is made up of many ingredients, but all the ingredients come from the same place: the soul. To me, soul music isn’t just Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye. It’s Joni Mitchell too. It comes from a deep emotional place inside you. It’s pretty much the opposite of the comfy fast food approach to culture. It’s about what touches you, what penetrates your heart. It’s about how you work with what your soul responds to most Discovering the lighter side of Black Dub according to Blade… Dan writes some heavy music, both instrumentally and lyrically. He writes from the heart, the mystery of the heart. That mystery from which our deepest feelings and secrets unfold: love and loss, joy and hope, fear and darkness. The name Black Dub may sound dark, but Dan always keeps a light on. An evolutionary perspective from Lanois… You know how every now and then you witness an impossible stroke of Mother Nature? Say, for instance, you’re looking up at some huge concrete bridge and you notice a tiny, delicate vine sprouting through the structure. Maybe a seed got stuck in a crack. The power in that little bud will eventually erupt into a labyrinth of vines across the bridge. If you tried to plan out something like that you couldn’t pull it off. But there it is, before your eyes, something magical just bursts into existence for natural reasons. As a musician, I look for those little seeds that catch on their own. Spotting is what I call it. For me, music is not about inventing something from scratch. It’s about expanding on something that has a natural beginning. A flash of a moment that has something special about it. I like to flirt with such natural diversions. Oftentimes they can grow into something quite substantial. I had the good fortune recently to visit Brian’s father’s church and sit in with the band. They were so many superb singers in that choir, real natural down-to-earth people with regular jobs who could out-sing practically any star in the music business. I so admire musicians like them. The way they see it, their singing, their voices belong to the community. They don’t sing for money. For members of that choir, singing is about praise. I’m not much of a churchgoer, but I think of music as praise too. I think of God as a great molecular collective. If you’re trying to do good and you come to the end of each day having made a few improvements in your life, not necessarily monetarily, but spiritually, I think that’s godliness. I like that about Black Dub. It’s a collective. Without a doubt the people in this band embrace the same values. We are made of the same fiber, personally and philosophically. And in the end, I see that as the overriding ingredient of Black Dub. Beyond entertainment, beyond commerce, it is the fiber of our music. And that’s enough for us.

i saw him at the fourth stage last time and that didn't sell out. i am just going to get tickets at the door. should be fine

agreed with velvet. le noise is fantastic. i have a vinyl copy thankfully. warner has already deleted it's vinyl production. ah neil and making his vinyl rare

he is awesome. if i am back in town early enough from my shows this weekend i will be their for sure.

full download in one part here

very excited for this show tonight. Show is Sold out. Who's hitting this one?

Phish Boardwalk Hall Atlantic City, NJ October 31, 2010 Show Poster Lossless Music Group Hoodstream Set One: Frankenstein Big Black Furry Creatures From Mars Ghost > Spooky The Divided Sky Roses are Free Funky Bitch Boogie On Reggae Woman Stash Character Zero last "Spooky" - 4/14/93

lol, don't forget booche i am a good drunk with a strong back with some heady info haha. Phish Boardwalk Hall Atlantic City, NJ October 31, 2010 Show Poster Lossless Music Group Hoodstream Set One: Frankenstein BBFCFM Ghost > Spooky* The Divided Sky Roses are Free Funky Bitch Boogie On Reggae Woman Stash last "Spooky" - 4/14/93

word is smellmyfeet is 420 i guess we will see when the stream goes online

i have been told it's going to be here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/smellmyfeet password is : trickortreat.

after midnight here it is for yall plus some other goodies. this one is working great. cheers

any tapers at this show?

nice your hitting steve earle. Man I was going to try for it then bailed. Im sure i will regret my decision. Rock it

not sure which ones are good but these one's participated in record store day http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venues?state=NY

I have not dove into NYC record shops first hand. I am saving for that trip. Have fun and Good luck.

http://www.yelp.com/list/best-record-store-ever-new-york

check this site. It;s pretty reliable. I used it whenever i go to new cities record hunting http://www.recordstorereview.com/index.php

Myself, Nyree and Ryan are in. So pumped for this show. Being a new father this year I have not been able to travel. Anything in Ottawa I am all over. As soon as this got announced I was so pumped. The last show he played in Ottawa blew my mind. So great. Benevento on Friday and roger waters on Sunday. Can't ask for a better weekend!!

great article in the montreal gazette. Hauling his own piano ummm ok. I just checked the citizen's article and it's the same damn article as the gazette! Mr. Hum got paid twice on that one

Rob this piano is from 1927- I don't think Marco is gonna put up with any "sort of- kind of- not really" drunk guys no matter how strong. Briguy sounds serious and if I were you I wouldn't get involved. You do not want to be responsible in any way if that thing gets banged up mang......... im just saying man, if the carleton tavern dead extravaganza was any indication good luck finding any sober cats in ottawa I am sure someone will step up. If not I am waiting in the wings and nothing will get broken.

I won't be sober but i will help. well i should have a mild buzz around 7 or just starting to drinkbut won't be drunk. and really at 2 am i should be alright. I have to write goverment test at 8 am . arggg Anyways I am a good drunk with a strong back. Let me know if you can't find any sober cats in ottawa. Good Luck

The Suburbs - Arcade Fire Brothers - The Black Keys the black crowes-crowology the budos band III Dr. Dog - Shame shame shame Mumford and sons- Sigh no more plants and animals- lala land punch brothers-antifogmatic Rubber soulive-soulive Widespread panic dirty side down neil young Le Noise The Acorn-No Ghost spoon-transference Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way Marco Benevento- Between the needles and nightfall Roky Erickson with Okkervil River Fistful of mercy- Ben harper and george harrison's son Huron Gord Downie- The grand bounce and thankfully I own vinyl copies of each album

hey yall, a friend of mind from north bay want's to come down for the show now. in ottawa. if anyone has 1 extra or two. please let me know. Thanks Rob

agreed. mind=blown the whole band was tight. but i was down in reserved 3 rows from brian blade and was fixated with him the whole night. what a drummer and what a smile. they guy couldn't stop smiling. i do have to see him again soon

see you their. Super stoked for this show. just made it back from partying with friends in north bay all weekend, ready to hear those tight grooves