Jah Wobble/Evan Parker - Passage to Hades

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Anyone know this 2001 disc? I think it's great, really solid dub/maybe postpunk-y grooves with Parker doing some circular fluttery stuff, some blasts, some long droney things, and sometimes little fragments of tunes, sometimes treated and split up and layered into shimmers, sometimes with some other lighter more melodic percussive things going on against the beat. For sick droney stuff over Jah Wobble dub/postpunk grooves, I like it a lot more than PiL, unlike which I actually feel like dancing to some of this. The groove in "Finally Cracked It" is totally great and I love when the keyboards and flutes come in. Another favourite moment is in "Giving Up the Ghost" when everything gives way to the wailing shimmers of layered sax drones.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 13 September 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i have this somewhere. i remember being more disappointed parker didn't "go nuts."

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 13 September 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

it certainly sounds like the title, however.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 13 September 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That's partly kind of what I like about it though. It's like Evan Parker using his talents and skills towards making a 'dance' record for once - and it works. He never overpowers the grooves, just throws colours on top or along with it. There are enough other records where he 'goes nuts'.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 13 September 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

yup. It sounds like a great collab but I never picked it up. I like the way he's working with non-improv ppl like jason pierce and so on (even if it doesn't quite work). Not enough improv ppl do that but there's some going on (MIMEO of course, bailey has collab with Min tanaka and a tapdancer) (whose name i forget etc etc).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 13 September 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, somehow I wasn't aware this existed. It certainly sounds like an intriguing collaboration. I'll have to seek this out.

One of the things I love about Wobble (well, besides having the most delightful electric bass tone of anyone who's ever played the instrument ever) is his willingness to throw himself into all kinds of different situations. Not all of them work or are really in any way interesting, but I love the fact that he's constantly pushing himself into them. Actually I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of his extensive catalog; that's something else I need to get on. The Czukay/Wobble/Leibzeit Full Circle disc remains an all-time fave, though. Sundar I think you'd like it (ref. your Wobble/PiL/dance comment).

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 13 September 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Leibezeit

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 13 September 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

it's the bagpipes & crumhorns that really make it. parker may as well not have showed up. in a similar vein whithout parker is the "beach fervour spare" disc . their drummer needs to get billy hioggins on us though. only then will i be satisfied.

― bob snoom, Monday, 15 September 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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