Browse by Label: 30 HERTZ RECORDS (UK)

Artist:	WOBBLE, JAH
Title:	The Inspiration Of William Blake
Label:	30 HERTZ RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	30HZ 013CD

"For this album, Wobble pursues yet another tangent, whereby he sets some of William Blake's poems to his trademark hallucinatory soundscapes. Blake was a 19th century artist, poet, mystic and author of Tyger Tyger and Jerusalem. He made little distinction between the conscious and the unconscious, a similar line that Jah Wobble follows as a musician. This inspirational recording was first released on the All Saints label in 1996."

Artist:	WOBBLE & DEEP SPACE, JAH
Title:	Largely Live In Hartlepool & Manchester
Label:	30 HERTZ RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	30HZ 015CD

"Everyone owns a record that Jah Wobble has played on. This maverick bass player first found his musical feet with Public Image Ltd (PIL), creating melodic bass lines as striking and memorable as the Metal Box they came in. Jah Wobble soon found himself on his own path of musical discovery. Jah worked with Can's Czukay and Leiezeit, and U2's Edge which resulted in 2 albums, Betrayal and Snake Charmer. These albums only hinted at future 'world music' influences. This album is a high quality live performance concert recording taken primarily from the band's gigs in Manchester and Hartlepool last year. Many fans of Jah Wobble and Deep Space have been asking about the availability of live concert recordings and there is a thriving bootleg market for such CDs. The market exists and Jah enjoys a large and loyal fan base and this recording will be a must for them."

Artist:	WOBBLE, JAH
Title:	The Early Years
Label:	30 HERTZ RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	30HZ 016CD

Double CD (for the price of one) retrospective of Wobble's earliest post-PIL recordings, circa 1983-4. "A big thanks to the many of you who, at any time or place, have asked the man operating as Jah Wobble when he's going to re-release the Bedroom Album era records. Years of pestering have finally paid off. And the world is a better place for it. What you have here, on a convenient 2 disc set, is the legendary, lost Bedroom Album, five complete 12 inch singles (as we used to call them), and a selection from the equally legendary and even more lost Tradewinds album. The master tapes are long gone. The discs were re-mastered from the holy records themselves. This music was recorded in a bedroom and various studios in London, and in a night club in Amsterdam, during the early 1980s. And released on Lago, the record label without a logo or an address. The Bedroom Album wasn't planned as an album. Wobble made it because that's what he does. By himself mostly, with some help from David, known as Animal, Maltby on electric guitar. But it's not like he wasn't getting out of the house at all at the time. He was also busy playing with Animal and Jim Walker as the Human Condition, as well as making records with the likes of Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, and Ben Mandelson. And at home it stayed until someone from Rough Trade came round, heard the tapes, and suggested it be released. Given that Wobble hadn't much of an income source at the time, he agreed. Listening to the record you get the feeling that the curtains of the bedroom probably weren't opened very much. The music is compelling, introspective, and dark. 'No joy in my heart, I'm just existing' he sings on the opening track, City. (It was made shortly after the death of Ian Curtis in 1981.) This darkness, as Wobble often has said, is a part of all of us that should be recognized and dealt with, not ignored. To quote the original sleeve notes by Juan Fernandez Jr, 'A record perfect for night-time playing....play it to antidote the Western Cancer Music'. The second disc is a set of completely different dishes, using many of the same ingredients and spices. After this batch of records Wobble spent about 10 years working with Island Records before going in to business for himself again in 1997 with the launch of 30 Hertz Records. As with Lago, this arrangement suits the man much better, allowing him to put out exactly the music he wants when he wants. Fresh from the kitchen to your table."

Artist:	WOBBLE & TEMPLE OF SOUND, JAH
Title:	Shout At The Devil
Label:	30 HERTZ RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	30HZ 017CD

"Shout At The Devil wisely colours its Arabic dub soundtrack with the addition of vocal contributions from the world recognized Natasha Atlas, Nina Miranda and Prodigy's Shahin. This rich tapestry of collaborators are at the heart of this tasteful brew of exotic and entrancing music. Unlike Wobble's other recent collaborations, all of a similar ilk, Shout At The Devil contains a sinister underbelly, whereby the hypnotic melodies wind around the listener like a hissing cobra. As usual, Wobble can be found bass in hand, scoring out the songs which are then given their meat and bones via Count Dubulah's occasional springy guitar and full-blooded programming. The title track, with Natacha Atlas on vocals takes you into the heart of the tribe like never before, delivering a healthy does of mystical eastern authenticity."

Artist:	WOBBLE'S SOLARIS, JAH
Title:	Live In Concert
Label:	30 HERTZ RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	30HZ 018CD

Jah Wobble, Harold Budd, Jaki Leibezeit, Bill Laswell, & Graham Haynes. "Born out of a chance collaboration between Jah Wobble and Harold Budd, Solaris brings together an extraordinary line up of musicians to perform improvised modal adventures in dub, jazz and ambient music. Solaris gives audiences a rare and unique opportunity to watch a group of highly eclectic musicians who are pioneers in the worlds of ambient, post-rock, world and jazz music perform together for the first time ever. Taking the name for the project from Russian film maker Andrei Tarkovsky's sci-fi classic Solaris, Jah Wobble talks about his inspiration in the director's faith and belief; 'You get this mystical vision of the world, a certain kind of stillness. Now the world of film has been influenced by the wacky world of video, where you've got to have scene changes and fast edits every second or two. And that reminded me of record companies in the 80s and 90s. You couldn't let things run for a few bars without change going on, because god forbid but the audience is so fucking stupid they might lose the plot, they might get bored. You can't have that, they've always got to be stimulated. It's very unhealthy shit that's going on. That's why Tarkovsky is the antidote to that kind of craziness.' Wobble's Solaris project offers its own antidote through music itself."

Artist:	WOBBLE & DEEP SPACE, JAH
Title:	Five Beat
Label:	30 HERTZ RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	30HZ 020CD

Long awaited album from Jah Wobble's Deep Space group, now featuring Philip Jeck! "In early 1999 I formed the group Deep Space. The idea was to mix ancient and awe inspiring pipe sounds, (courtesy of JP Rasle and C Bell) played over a fluid and ever changing (in terms of mode, rhythm, tempo and time signature) rhythm section (courtesy of drummer M Sanders and your humble narrator). The other starting premise was a desire to incorporate the layered textures of electronic music, particularly of the music concrete variety. This 'electronic aspect' was, over the subsequent years and much to my frustration only ever occasionally satisfied, (Paul Shutze on Beach Fervour Spare for example). This situation seems to have been rectified by the addition of the irrepressible P Jeck and his record players. Also featured on this album are C Cookson on guitar, as well as my old friend and master trumpeter Mr H Beckett. These last two musicians combine well, bringing a particular 'chordal' and melodic sensibility into the melange, specifically in regard to track 4. The last track features a vocalist both versatile and daring; Ms C Von-Trapp. I am very happy with this recording. I am inclined to feel 'mission accomplished'. In which case I will write elevator music at home for the foreseeable future." -- JW.

Artist:	WOBBLE, JAH
Title:	English Roots Music
Label:	30 HERTZ RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	30HZ 021CD

"Many of the moody, drone-based, heart-rendering melodies are based on the old church modes, and some have hardly changed since medieval times (There are speculations that a version of 'The Unquiet Grave' inspired the carol 'There blows a colde wynd todaye, todaye' c. 1500). Other songs have a strong XVIIIth Century flavour, and their tunes have often been borrowed for later Victorian hymns, whereas Cannily, Cannily was written in 1969, by folk collector and protest songwriter Ewan MacColl. Its melody seems to be based on a lullaby, and helped towards its success and assimilation into the body of traditional British folk songs. With the help of Chris Cookson's wild ethnic loops and his own obsessive, post-industrial bass lines, Jah Wobble proceeded to deconstruct the same songs over the next two days, commandeering the odd flurry of whistle notes or long sustains of bagpipe drones at exhilaratingly odd intervals. He interspersed the recording with jumping out of hotel wardrobes and frightening the life out of me, but also with illuminating musings while walking along Hartlepool's lesser known sea front. Surrounded by the savage beauty of its black and white rocks mixed with decaying Victorian dwellings and 21st century waste, Jah Wobble's chosen musical mix seemed particularly relevant. The result is sure to rattle some folksy cages, and more than a few Victorian song collectors might turn in their grave, but the atmospheres he has created provide a direct link with the songs' original bearers: a hint of the first trains here, a whiff of the sweatshop there. Let these songs speak for themselves."

Artist:	WOBBLE, JAH
Title:	Elevator Music Volume 1A
Label:	30 HERTZ RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	30HZ 022CD

"My philosophy of life is very simple. I discovered a few years ago that I am the centre of the universe...without me none of this ... (by this, I mean all this) would be possible. Unfortunately being the creative centre of the universe comes with certain responsibilities. Yes even I have to follow divine law. Anyway, now is not the time to go into all that. I do still have hobbies, one of them is making music. Elevator Music, to be more specific. I recommend that you listen to this music in this fashion; Simulate the conditions of a typical elevator... invite friends around to your house/room, pretend that you don't know each other. Stand, silently, in close proximity to each other. Try, in a rather self conscious fashion, to avoid eye contact. Attempt to get everybody to cultivate 'coffee breath.' If like me you don't have friends use mannequins, and spray them with home made coffee breath essence. Listen to the music at a level that is always slightly too low. The whole experience should be; uncomfortable, disconcerting, mildly irritating, vacuous, and devoid of meaning. Enjoy." -- Jah Wobble. With guest musicians BJ Cole: (pedal Steel), and Harry Becket: (Trumpet).

Artist:	YULDUZ
Title:	Bilmadim
Label:	30 HERTZ RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	30HZ 023CD

"A graduate of the department for oriental music at the conservatorium in Yulduz Usmanova composes her songs around established folk songs which are still sung in Usbekian villages today. This traditional Usbekian folklore, which contains Turkish, Persian and Central Asian influences, has been mixed by Jah Wobble (her producer on this album) with western rock, pop and dance styles. The result is an extraordinary combination of east and western styles, although the ethnic elements are unmistakable. 'When I started, I thought that this traditional music has to be preserved,' explains Yulduz, 'it had to be made up to date though.' When Jah Wobble first heard Yulduz' music, he felt that her work had suffered from an over-commercialisation; caused by a major record company and producers who had misunderstood her ethnic artistry and potential."

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