Search - David Gould :: Adonai in Dub

Cool idea!

Allan MacInnis | Vancouver | 04/18/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"So the Rastafarians expropriate certain metaphors and terms from the Jews; how fitting in this postmodern age that the Jews should reciprocate and borrow from the Rastas... ADONAI IN DUB, by David "Solid" Gould, offers us Jewish traditional music by way of Jamaica, with serious heavy dub remixing by Jamie Saft (who's performance on recent John Zorn FILMWORKS discs and his stellar album SOVLANUT should be enough to convince everyone to buy this disc). It's not the best dub I've heard, and it's certainly not a representative slice of Jewish music -- but it lives up to the idea, and contains one particularly abstract cut near the end with really spacy percussion and echo that will remain a lasting fave -- the "Vynamar Dybbuk Dub" or somesuch, I think. The reggae elements actually outweigh the more Jewish elements, IMHO, though who knows, I might be missing stuff -- I'm not THAT attuned to Jewish culture. In any event, if I were recording a mixed CD of stuff to listen to on a good night, I'd happily put tracks from this disc along, say, some of the better moments of African Head Charge. (Sorry, can't say it ranks up their with the best of Lee Scratch Perry or such, but it's still a good album)."