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Juno Daily
on 22.05.2025 at 15:11pm.
Last edited: 22.05.2025 at 15:51pm.
Release follows appearance and remix work on Dimple’s Telefis project
Dimple Discs has announced its first release by the legendary bass player and vocalist Jah Wobble, a completely solo work with the former PiL man and Orb collaborator writing, playing and arranging.
‘Dub Volume 1’ is set for release on the Dimple Discs label on July 18 – it’s available for pre-order on vinyl or on CD now and you can hear the first track to emerge from it here right now.
Expertly mastered by Anthony Chapman (Collapsed Lung) and cut to achieve maximum clarity and volume, the album is housed in full colour outer and inner sleeves based on paintings by Wobble himself, with the LP format being on clear vinyl with dropped colours of yellow and red to reflect the artwork.
The career of Jah Wobble (born John Wardle) has encapsulated genres that include post-punk, dub, world music, experimental rock and electronic music. He was known initially as an original member of Public Image Ltd (PiL) from 1978-80, making two groundbreaking albums with the band that included the iconic ‘Metal Box’ (1979).
He began a solo career even before leaving PiL, formed Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart in 1982, and collaborated with Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of Can, The Edge of U2 and producer François Kevorkian soon after. He was part of the industrial supergroup The Damage Manual formed in 2000, worked with his wife Zi Lan Liao (guzheng player and harpist) on the award-winning ‘Chinese Dub’ (2008), and with Julie Campbell aka LoneLady on ‘Psychic Life’ (2011).
Wobble reunited with former PiL guitarist Keith Levene in 2012 to record the album ‘Yin & Yang’ and perform a series of ‘Metal Box In Dub’ events. He continues to tour, often presenting the latter as a two hour show with former Specimen and Siouxsie & The Banshees member Jon Klein following Levene’s death in 2022.
Among other musicians past and present, Wobble has worked with Ginger Baker, Björk, Brian Eno, Baaba Maal, Massive Attack, Sinéad O’Connor, Pharoah Sanders and numerous further collaborations. His autobiography, ‘Memoirs of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem’, was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2009.
DUB VOLUME 1TRACKLISTING1 Dub In The East2 Tyson Dub Remix3 Existential Dub4 Losing All Sense Of Balance Dub5 Lovers Rock Dub6 Tragic Slavic Dub7 Sweet Dub8 Old Jewish East End Of London Dub
Pre-order your copy of Dub Volume 1, expected out on the Dimple Discs label on July 18, by clicking here
