Artist:
Various
Title:
Dakini Mother Tongue
Label:
Liquid Sound Design
Released:
10th October
Liquid
Sound Design was created in 1998 by Youth as a sister label to
Dragonfly showcasing the more down-tempo output aimed at post-club
listening. Eventually, the management of the label was taken on by
Pathaan and is currently in the capable hands of Robin Triskele.
The
album commences with the Ozora mix of 'Return To The River Ganges by
Celtic Vedic and features a wealth of established talent from the
world music scene including legendary dub bassist Jah Wobble and
Youth himself. As you may of anticipated the track is a heady exotic
fusion of Celtic and Indian vibes easing you in gently before
dropping the dubby bass line and introducing Shri's sultry vocals
(who some may recognise from previous work with TaTva Kundalini and
Gods Robots with Janaka Selecta). This is followed by the Bhanda Dub
of 'Amethyst Corrida' by Wadada Youth Mundy which maintains the theme
with tribal drums rolling along behind melodic harp strings, flutes,
sitars and an orchestral violin break which complements the piece
perfectly.
The
album then moves away from the eastern mood with the Irresistible
Force Dub Mix of Tecktures feat. Mixmaster Morris 'Giant Robots In The Sky' which is frankly
a beautiful piece of dubbed out choral ambience. The compilation then
switches back to the eastern fusions with Kuba's 'By The Foot Of Your
Mountain' which begins with a Ravi Shankar'esque Sitar intro slowly
teasing intermittent drum hits before the laid-back dub and Indian
vocal takes full effect.
With
the general stance of this compilation so far it's no surprise that
Youth's Navigator Dub of Suns of Arqa's 'Navigator' is plucked from
the previous L.S.D. re-mix E.P. packed full of tribal chants & flutes
that provide the listener with a dubbed out chill before exploding
into pounding drums with trance like sequencing sections. The mood
switches once again with the Bhanda Dub of Brother Culture vs Youth
on 'People Love The Music' a bass heavy dance hall riddim bringing
the reggae back into the dubs.
Yet
again the style reverts back to the east with Ghostliner's 'Phoenix'
an exotic dub with tribal vocal stabs and percussion that's rather
fitting to the compilation as a whole. The album closes with the long
awaited return of the Dub Trees (Youth, Greg Hunter and Twisted
Records Simon Posford) where the Youth vs Cosmic Trigger Dub of
'Future Roots' is a lovely fusion of speaker shaking reggae dub and
psybient sounds.
To
conclude this is a solid release and continues the quality and style
fans of Liquid Sound Design have come to expect. There's a heavy
eastern element to the album which made me wonder why they didn't
stick with that format throughout the whole release. However, I can
answer my own question as the tracks that didn't fit that pigeon hole
are too good to leave out.
Reviewed
by Woodzee.
**For
the chance of winning a Bandcamp redeem code for this release tune
into the Chill Out Sessions on Boxfrequency.fm at 20:00 G.M.T. on
Sunday the 25th of October and keep your eyes peeled on
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