Cult musicians Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell have announced the release of a new album on the original Public Image bassist’s own eponymously named label on the 19th of July 2019. “Realm Of Spells” was recorded recently in Laswell’s Orange Studios in New Jersey and sees the two musical pioneers collaborate on a joint long player for the first time since the release of “Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission” in 2001.

The new album – which is available here – features 8 brand new tracks that captures the sound of the coming together of post punk London and the avant garde of New York’s no wave movement of which the two bass players were very much key.

Wobble explains: “I used a Fender P bass for the first time in years on this new record with Bill and it embodies the basic approach that I had right from the start. All the early PiL stuff plus the ‘Full Circle’ album with Holger and Jaki was played on a Fender P and it took me back to that beautiful naive beginning”.

“Realm Of Spells” also features The Invaders Of The Heart line up of Marc Layton-Bennett (drums & percussion), George King (keyboards) and Martin Chung (guitar) together with Japanese drummer and percussionist Hideo Yamaki and Peter Apfelbaum.

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Jah Wobble & Momo are set to release a new album on the frontman’s own eponymously titled label on the 10th of May 2018. For those too young to know, Jah Wobble was the original bass player in the cult act Public Image Ltd (PiL).

“Magrhebi Jazz” was recently recorded and self produced by Wobble in London with engineers Paul Maddon and Jonas Person. Released on limited edition vinyl in conjunction with Record Store Day, the new collection is now available on CD and digitally and features 5 brand new tracks that blend jazz and North African influences to great effect.

Perhaps not entirely the music taste of most readers here, but nobody will doubt the musical genius Wobble was and is.

The album sees the legendary bass player and his band line up of Mark Layton Bennett (percussion & drums), George King (keyboards) and Sean Corby (trumpet & flugelhorn) team up with MOMO (music of Moroccan origin). The MOMO duo of Tahar Elidrissi (vocals, percussion, gimbri) and Hussan Nainia (guitars) were originally from Morocco, but they have both now settled in the UK.

Wobble’s most recent album ‘The Usual Suspects’ was released last year and features brand new recordings of some of his finest solo, Invaders Of The Heart and Public Image Limited output.

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Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart are set to release a new album on 3Ms Music on the 30th of June 2017. “The Usual Suspects” features brand new recordings of some of Jah Wobble’s solo, Invaders Of The Heart and Public Image Limited output.

To be released on limited double vinyl, CD and available digitally, the 23 (!) tracks were recorded over the last few months at The Smokehouse studios in East London and include the lead single and album opener “Public Image”, re-worked from Public Image Limited’s ground breaking debut album from 1978.

Other tracks include versions of cinematic scores “Midnight Cowboy” and “Get Carter”, Dawn Penn’s “You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)” that features the vocals of Aurora Dawn and a new take of “Visions Of You” which originally appeared on Wobble’s Invaders of The Heart album “Rising Above Bedlam”. Also included are 2 recent live recordings of “Liquidator” and “Poptones”, which originally appeared on PIL’s “Metal Box” record.

For now enjoy Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart performing live at the KEXP studio on September 28, 2016.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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