One can derive any number of assumptions from the words “joint effort” – yet this is what a collaboration between Horace Andy and Jah Wobble should boil down to. Speaking about the latter’s mastery of dub, many tend to forget it’s not a recording technique that he’s famous for, his name suggesting as much, and the subgenre parental culture, reggae, was also the culture the former emerged from, so their pairing on an album titled “Timeless Roots” – which will be issued on September 27th – seems rather logical.
While the platter contains a take on Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” that Horace first covered back in 1973, it’s all fresh recordings on offer here, including the masters’ new readings of “Come Together” and “Superstition” alongside a couple of soul perennials, a reimagining of MASSIVE ATTACK’s “Spying Glass” and “One Love” that Horace co-penned, and Andy’s own dusted-off evergreens “Natty Dread A Weh She Want” and “Skylarking” – all anchored and propelled by Wobble’s tremendous bass passages. Judging by the already released singles (listen to a couple of those below), the results are whoppingly good.
and JAH WOBBLE –
Timeless Roots
1. Natty Dread A Weh She Want
2. Skylarking
3. Superstition
4. Spying Glass
5. Money Money
6. Ain’t No Sunshine
7. One Love
8. Come Together
9. Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
10. Three Little Birds
11. O-o-h Child
12. Horse With No Name
bonus tracks:
13. Rain
14. The Truth
