Bucureci Obeah is a curator, musicologist, art director, dub poet, music artist and producer and also an entrepreneur with decades of experience in radio, music & visual art. His portfolio includes multi-media projects Creionetica, Tunesinourheads, Abator Industries, Crowd Control, Black Rhino Music & Radio and A4Activism. Bucureci was a collaborator of Radio Guerrilla, Electronic Beats by Telekom and is a graduate of architecture, art and design.
Sound Of Art To Come Records is Obeah's Transylvanian platform and record label, where dub, industrial, post-punky reggae, hip-hop, electronic and experimental artists from all over the world are brought together. From the heart of Romania, they offer a monthly transmission of art through a unique selection of artworks, collages, music & remixes inspired by the intersection of Pop Art, multi-culturalism and horror soundtracks.
Sound Of Art To Come have partnered with the UK-based NGO/ label from Lancashire, Wormhole World, to put out their artists catalog on CD in the UK and surrounding areas and connect their audience with dub, industrial, post-punky reggae, experimental music.
Sound Of Art To Come have also partnered with the US-based anarchist label, from Austin Texas, Emergency Hearts, to put out Lil Obeah releases and remixes in the States and engage their forward-thinking American audience.
Inspired by his mentors, Rodion G.A. and Mark Stewart of The Pop Group and The Maffia, after ten years of making eclectic fusion music Lil Obeah, from Transylvania, has tuned in to another frequency. When it comes to his sound, he defines it as duppy dub world music from a parallel universe. Obeah works with Bucharest-based producers Marius Costache of Studio148 and Petru Barladeanu, international veteran world music producers Tim Whelan and Hamid Mantu of Transglobal Underground, and much-missed dub master Nick 'Count' Dubulah of Dub Colossus.
His remix work includes local artists, international sound clashers like Lee Scratch Perry and Dubokaj, Algiers and Zack de la Rocha, Dubmatix, Dub Pistols, Prince Fatty, Ghetto Priest, Transglobal Underground, Dub Colossus, The Membranes, Denise Sherwood, Yann Tiersen, scott crow, Oigăn and Ana Ularu, Nico G and Kali and 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 the present.
Without any live performances, Obeah's music has been 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.
Dub music and Obeah art has constantly clashed with industrial rock, metal, tribal and hip-hop. The sounds of Killing Joke, Mark Stewart and The Maffia, Tackhead and Adrian Sherwood, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Alien Sex Fiend, Meat Beat Manifesto, Pop Will Eat Itself and their concepts have been a longtime inspiration to Obeah and Marius Costache.
Nothing is more blood-pumping than life in the post-industrial, post-communist Carpathian mountains. So it was only natural for Lil Obeah to launch his third album Everyday Is Halloween on Halloween and dedicate it to the sound of industrial dub-reggae. This Marius Costache of Studio148 produced album features collaborations with: Denver rappers Time & Extra Kool, who share Lil Obeah’s passion for horror films & soundtracks; Vilnius based producer, bass player Boris Kulenovic of Mei Tei Sho fame, currently in Afrodelic; UK Dancehall MC Horseman aka Winston Williams on drums; frequent Mad Professor collaborator, Peter Harris, collaborator of Lee Scratch Perry on bass; guitar, backing vocals, Fritz Catlin of 23 Skidoo on percussion and bow bass; and Alexandru Stoica of Anton Pann Ensemble on oud.
Obeah considers dub music sound art, and aims to create a forever authentic Transylvanian horror film soundtrack with his songs and remixes.
eMERGENCY heARTS is an anarchist-run indie collaborative media hub in Austin, TX that spotlights post-punk, outsider and non-genre specific music, sounds and visual arts that floats our fancy from the past until today.
Founded by author, musician and art dealer Scott Crow (Lesson Seven, Audio Assault, corporatE unclE), the vision is for music and other media to build an umbrella entity that supports artists, outside the mainstream where they can collaborate and experiment across artistic disciplines in a society that often devalues culture makers outside of the mainstream.
They license and release vintage and new music as well as arts across various mediums (books, visual arts, video) that they find engaging or culturally valuable, or just bring joy.
"eMERGENCY heARTS values artists and collaborators; we do our best to make sure artists are compensated fairly for their creative outputs. Emergency Hearts describes the immediacy of feelings of empathy and compassion that motivate us to act to end oppression, exploitation, and destruction. The emergency hearts are this beautiful part that drives us with both passion and compassion. Each of our emergency hearts is the spark that compels us to action and creativity.” - Scott Crow
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