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On "The Afrodub Experience" Umberto Echo takes us on a journey across four continents, exploring 50 years of Afro-Caribbean music history. On his new album "The Afrodub Experience," multi-instrumentalist and producer Umberto Echo takes us on a journey through space and time across four continents, exploring 50 years of Afro-Caribbean music history with numerous collaborators. The starting point an

Umberto Echo - The Afrodub Experience - [Vinyl]

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On "The Afrodub Experience" Umberto Echo takes us on a journey across four continents, exploring 50 years of Afro-Caribbean music history. On his new album "The Afrodub Experience," multi-instrumentalist and producer Umberto Echo takes us on a journey through space and time across four continents, exploring 50 years of Afro-Caribbean music history with numerous collaborators. The starting point and inspiration is the Afrobeat of the 1970s, which Umberto discovered through original musicians from Fela Kuti's "Africa 70" band in the Berlin project "Afrobeat Academy" in the late 2000s, and which he began to fuse with dub and reggae. Originally intended as Umberto's second album, the project continually takes new twists and turns, becoming a journey you might not want to end. 18 years later, "The Afrobeat Experience" is now released as Umberto Echo's 12th album. Similar to how dub emerged from the roots reggae of the 1970s, Umberto approaches Afrobeat with its many rhythmic layers by isolating and re-melding the musical levels, thus opening up a view of deeper elements in the music. Musicians from Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Ghana, and Guinea-Bissau enrich the spectrum, as do singers from Jamaica and Barbados. Jazz musicians and co-producers from New York to Hamburg to Melbourne inspire each other and help give the project a unique character over time. Countless sessions yield a vast pool of ideas and songs, some of which have already been used on recent albums, while others are discarded. They experiment, remix, extend, and shorten the album. Old tape machines, digital effects from the 1980s, and a mixing console from the 1960s are coupled with state-of-the-art computers. Older songs are completely reworked years later, while others are conjured up at the very end. Historical and obscure instruments meet software and samples, and musicians who were still schoolchildren when production began ultimately participate. On the resulting 10 songs on the album, Umberto Echo shares his "Afrobeat Experience," that one can enjoy for years to come, discovering new details every time. Track Listing Panafrican Dub Part 1 Panafrican Dub Part 2 Look At You Nguê Ghara Better Days The Government The Government Part 2 The Don Is Comming Moto Fire Kadudu

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