Dreams of Freedom: Ambient Translations of Bob Marley in Dub

by

Bob Marley

Here's a idea - take some of Bob Marley's best-loved songs and remove all traces of the man himself. Sounds terrible, right? Wrong! This is an hour of great, minimal music. It's not heavy or rhythmic enough to be dub but there's too much going on for it to be ambient either. Bill Laswell can just focus on one of Family Man's great bass parts or some organ (which can sound quite creepy on its own) a vocal sample or some percussion.

I've grown up with these songs, and spent ages playing the basslines so it is really nice to hear them in a new way, this remix album of half a century old songs from quarter of a century ago makes them sound fresh to me!