A Spy In the House of Dub Dub Colossus

• 1 A Spy In The House Of Dub 05:41
• 2 Sima Edy (Soundsystem version) 06:12
• 3 Guragigna (Soundsystem version) 05:34
• 4 What Time Is Dub (Soundsystem version) 05:08
• 5 Crazy In Dub (Soundsystem version) 05:56
• 6 Mechem Aresah 06:02
• Total Runtime 34:33

Info zu A Spy In the House of Dub

Marking 10 years since the first release by Dub Colossus, A Spy in the House of Dub, is a mini album that celebrates the musical journey that Dub Colossus has been on since 2008, featuring new versions of tracks from the first 3 albums— A Town Called Addis, Addis Through The Looking Glass and Dub Me Tender Vols 1 & 2 —plus a nod to the future with 2 entirely new tracks. The band will be taking to the road in their new 5 piece format in 2019 featuring the prodigious talents of the likes of Robert Mitchell and Oli Savill alongside Mimi’s stunning vocals.

Dub Colossus released their debut album A Town Called Addis in 2008, which was inspired by meeting, writing and working with Ethiopian singers and musicians in Addis Ababa in August 2006. The collaboration between Dub Colossus and these amazing musicians covers Azmari and traditional styles as well as the popular singing styles of the 60s and 70s.

The follow up, Addis Through The Looking Glass, was released on Real World Records in 2011. A more varied and sophisticated album that moved the music on —with the Ethiopian contingent playing a greater role in the proceedings. It’s still an experimental fusion set, not a straightforward recording of Ethiopian songs, but the successes of the previous two years of touring led to growing trust and confidence in the band.

2012 saw another change of tack, with the release of Dub Me Tender Vols 1 & 2: A dub-heavy album, reworking some existing Dub Colossus album tracks alongside new material. This album subsequently went on to win a Songlines Music Award for Best Cross Cultural Collaboration.

2014’s Addis To Omega is more of a UK/Jamaican affair, reflecting the times and events happening locally and globally, the impact they are having on us all… social, political and economic. Musically, this is the spirit of The Specials seen through a Funkadelic lens, with a sprinkling of psychedelic dub on Forbidden Planet.

While experimenting with different live band formats, the Dub Colossus Soundsystem was born, and saw the band reworking some of the earlier tracks and mixing them up with newer material. This show always got a great reaction, hence the decision to release some of the versions that were played live in this format.

In 2018, after a hiatus for a couple of years, the band has decided to both move on and explore its roots with the formation of another new line up, which incorporates the Ethiopian singing of Mimi Zenebe, one of the original members who sang on the opening number of the first album, with more London centric sounds of jazz and dub, which can be heard on the new tracks. Dub Colossus will be taking to the road in their new 5 piece format in 2019 featuring the prodigious talents of the likes of Robert Mitchell and Oli Savill alongside Mimi’s stunning vocals.

Dub Colossus

Dub Colossus
are a band from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the UK. Their sound fuses traditional azmari music, ethio-jazz and dub, and reggae. It is the creation of Nick Page - aka Dubulah - who co-wrote, played on, programmed and produced 3 albums to date. It resulted from an invitation to visit and stay in Addis for two weeks by Dan Harper. Nick stayed with Dan and his family, and Dan introduced him to musicians he knew from his work on Invisible System, Dan's Ethiopian fusion project released on Harper Diabate Records. These musicians went on to become the core of Dub Colossus, including Mimi (Sintayehu Zenebe), Teremage Woretaw, Feleke Hailu, Tsedenis G-Marqos and Samuel Yirga. Without Dan's studio, spirit of resistance and hospitality, Nick would not have made the first Dub Colossus album, although most of the backing tracks were written in London before arrival in Addis so it unexpectedly became a solo project of Nick's.

Nick ran up major debts trying to finish the album and Dan took weeks off paid employment to house, feed and studio accommodate Nick so both performed this out of dedication. Dan Harper was an aid worker with his own financed and built studio in his home in Addis and he recorded just over half of Dub Colossus's first album with Nick in his Worm Hole Studio. He also recorded the successful Invisible System project with founding members of Dub Colossus

Nick began his career working with Mykaell Riley (Steel Pulse) and has since worked with a long list of notable artists. In 1990 he formed the group Transglobal Underground with Tim Whelan and Hammid Man-Tu. Nick produced, wrote, and played six albums with Transglobal, before leaving in 1997 to form Temple of Sound with Neil Sparkes.

Dub Colossus are signed to Real World Records and released their first album 'A Town Called Addis' in 2008. Their second album 'Addis Through The Looking Glass' was released in April 2011. A third album, Dub Me Tender vol 1+2, was released on Real World in February 2012. A green audiophile vinyl album "Dub Me Tender vol 1" was released on Yeka Sub City Records via Cadiz in September 2011.

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