Holy Tongue – S.T.
A delightfully bizarre record from Grace Cale’s Dubset, a short-lived dubwise project by British multi-instrumentalist Nigel Holland. The album opens with Adrian Sherwood, On-U Sound, African Head Charge adjacent post-punk dub production featuring experimental dubwise processing of Arabic chants and African percussion before heading into Dadaist experimentations with voice and language, “Porn Jazz,” and sax-led industrial grooves. “4-In-A-Dub” also has a bit of Jah Wobble flavor to it with driving dub-punk bassline and slightly questionable, but still tasteful white Jamaican patois vocals. Jah Tim Oliver, who engineered many Factory releases in the mid-80s including Happy Mondays debut EP, is behind the punk-wise dub mix.
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Dub / Experimental / Post-Punk
Tracklist:
A1 Kassite War Chant (Hittite Dub)
A2 Schwaiia-Mū, (Government Dub)
A3 4-In-A-Dub
A4 Dubset Verses The Pinhead Round [1] (Flesh Beat Dub)
A5 Bridge’s Rap
A6 Bibbering Blaggat (Hittite War Chant)
B1 She Whispers “Master…”
B2 Porn Jazz
B3 Owner’s Risk
B4 Nona
B5 Endpiece
B6 Schwaiia-Mū, (Government Version)
Credits:
Drums, Percussion – Dan Who
Drums, Percussion, Voice – Mike “Bad Words” Wilson
Executive-Producer – Howard Marshall
Guitar – Sam Skidoo
Horn – Tim Soar
Other – Steven Machat
Percussion – Gareth Lewis
Producer, Arranged By – Nigel Holland
Producer, Engineer – Paul Hamblin, Tom O’Leary
Saxophone – Jane “Sax” Shorter*
Trumpet, Piano, Percussion – Stuart “Serious Shades” Hamer*
Voice – Ola Primitive, Stephanie Nuttall
Voice, Loops, Bass, Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer, Percussion – Grace Cale
Voice, Percussion – Himat “Dread” Singh*
