David
released the album Promesse du Bonheur in 2018 under the name Baba Vuk in
collaboration with Park Planet maestro Graham Duff which featured reimagined
Nohumaneye songs and collaborated with The Pop Group legend Mark Stewart on the
Nohumaneye vs. Mark Stewart - King of the Zombies Remix EP, featuring Matthew
Shaw as producer. He also collaborated with Mark Stewart and Peter Harris on
the BombArt project.
David Ness
first collaboration with Obeah was for the remix of Hyperreal with Marius
Costache (a joint venture from The Sound of Art to Come and Studio148). His
last album was The Circuit of Culture and was released last year on Wormhole
World featuring his 16-year-old Eric Ness on guitar.
Colossus is
from his upcoming album and was remixed by Obeah & Petru Birladeanu in a
Transylvanian dub style.
Petru
Bîrlădeanu aka
Peter Zaad is a sound engineer/composer/producer/ based in Bucharest,
Romania with his studio/label NineBarz Music. His portfolio includes film music
and sound design for Investitorii, Faci sau taci, Legatii, LoveSorry, Egregora,
Odată pentru totdeauna, but also productions for artists like Ateliere &
OBC, Omu Gnom, Gilbert, Damian Drăghici, Cliff Kido, Celălalt, Kazi Ploaie,
Theo Rose, Doddy.
Obeah considers
Dub music sound art and aims to create a forever authentic Transylvanian horror
film soundtrack with his songs and remixes. Bucureci Obeah is a curator,
musicologist, art director and entrepreneur and Sound of Art to Come is his
platform & record label, where dub, industrial, post-punky reggae, hip-hop,
electronic & experimental artists from all over the world are brought
together. Inspired by his mentors, Rodion G.A. & Mark Stewart of The Pop
Group & The Maffia, after ten years of making eclectic fusion music, Lil
Obeah from Transylvania has tuned-in to another frequency: duppy dub world
music from a parallel universe. Obeah works with professionals in the music
business, Bucharest-based producers Marius Costache of Studio148 & Petru
Bîrlădeanu and international veteran world music producers Tim Whelan &
Hamid Mantu of Transglobal Underground and the much-missed dub master Nick
„Count” Dubulah of Dub Colossus.
His remix
work includes local artists, international sound clashers like Lee Scratch
Perry & Dubokaj, Dubmatix, Dub Pistols, Algiers & Zack De La Rocha of
Rage Against The Machine, Prince Fatty, Ghetto Priest, Transglobal Underground,
Dub Colossus, The Membranes, Denise Sherwood, Yann Tiersen, Oigăn & Ana
Ularu, Nico G & Kali & Shabbos Ranks. He is inspired by the strangest
Romanian sounds, ranging from weird experimental authentic local dub to traditional
reggae-dub with ska and folk-rock influences, music, and records released near
the Black Sea from the 1960s to present days. Obeah's music was played all over
the world by legends like Dennis Bovell, Steve Barker and Don Letts on: BBC 6
Music, BBC Lancashire, Soho Radio, ResonanceFM, The Music Galaxy Radio, Radio
Buena Vida, Australia's National Roots'n'Reggae Show, Culture Dub from
Poitiers, Berlin's Zonic Radio, Poland's Czwórka and Belgium's Dub Front.
Credits
David Ness –
vocals, lyrics
Petru
Birladeanu – remix production, keys & synths, drum programming
Obeah –
samples, concept
nohumaneye
are
David Ness:
Lyrics, Vocals, Live Drums, Horn, Harmonica, Percussion (Tambourine, Hand Drum,
Bells and Glockenspiel)
Martyn Scutt:
Electric Guitars, Piano, Synthesisers, Percussion (Tin shaker)
Walter Keith:
Basses, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Synthesiser, Drum Programming,
Percussion (Egg Shaker)
Petru
Birladeanu – remix production, keys & synths, drum programming
Obeah –
samples, concept
