Stally & The
Breadwinners/Skinshape – Riddim Box Dub/Soul Groove (Horus Records)
7”/DL
Out Now
On 12/12/12, Al
Redfern and his project The Breadwinners gave one good reason why we should
never be too hasty in publishing our yearly Best Of lists with the Dubs Unlimited
album being an absolute scorcher!
New Dorset label,
Horus, promise to give us “music that deserves to be heard by a wider
audience”, and, with their first release, you really can’t argue. It’s a double A sided single featuring two
great tracks.
First up is tenor
saxophonist Stally who featured on The Breadwinners album as part of Redferns
project. The perfect single for a Monday
morning – lazy and uplifting. Stally’s
sexy saxophone is super smooth (and other words beginning with ‘s’) and an
absolute killer with dubs and more dubs galore.
Again using ¼ inch tape and conventional effects, Al has created yet
more superb sounds. Some of the dubs
here are so long that they are still echoing out when new ones come in! Slightly reminiscent of UB40’s One In Ten,
but, don’t let that put you off!
Marvellous percussion to close as Redfern quickly moves up a gear to
claim his title as Dub King for the twenty-first century. The boy from Rochdale has done good.
Side A number two comes from Skinshape, or, Will Dorey to his
Mother. With a slow meandering soul/funk
groove and some lovely vocals from guest Anina backed by a great reggae dub
guitar, Soul Groove is exactly what it says.
A great bridge after a minute and a half when most of the
instrumentation drops out and the drums and bass come to the front with some
space-age electronic effects and stunning organ courtesy of second guest Jon
Moody. An incredibly polished production
and another superb track.
If this is the shape of things to come from Horus, then we’re in
for some very special stuff.
9/10
Links
Published on Louder Than War 26/06/13 - here
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