Jah Wobble's Solaris

Born Out Of A Chance Collaboration Between Jah Wobble And Harold Budd Solaris Brings Together An Extraordinary Line Up Of Musicians To Perform Improvised Modal Adventures In Dub Jazz And Ambient Music. Solaris Gives Audiences A Rare And Unique Opportunity To Watch A Group Of Highly Eclectic Musicians Who Are Pioneers In The Worlds Of Ambient Post-Rock World And Jazz Music Perform Together For The First Time Ever. Taking The Name For The Project From Russian Film Maker Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sci-Fi Classic Solaris Jah Wobble Talks About His Inspiration In The Director’s Faith And Belief “You Get This Mystical Vision Of The World A Certain Kind Of Stillness. Now The World Of Film Has Been Influenced By The Wacky World Of Video Where You’ve Got To Have Scene Changes And Fast Edits Every Second Or Two. And That Reminded Me Of Record Companies In The 80s And 90s. You Couldn’t Let Things Run For A Few Bars Without Change Going On Because God Forbid But The Audience Is So Fucking Stupid They Might Lose The Plot They Might Get Bored. You Can’t Have That They’ve Always Got To Be Stimulated. That’s Why Tarkovsky Is The Antidote To That Kind Of Craziness.” Wobble’s Solaris Project Offers Its Own Antidote Through Music Itself. Since His Years With Public Image Limited Jah Wobble Has Always Been At The Forefront Of Musical Experimentation Pioneering Industrial Dub And Embracing World Music Well Before Contemporaries Such As Peter Gabriel. His Albums With Invaders Of The Heart Won Him Commercial Success And Critical Acclaim Making Him One Of The Best Known Names In Popular Music Playing With The Likes Of Primal Scream Holger Czukay The Orb Molam Lao Sinead O’Connor To Name But A Few. Despite His Commercial Success Wobble Has Always Continued To Experiment With New Ways Of Working Which He Achieves Through His Own Label 30 Hertz Live Performances With Deep Space And Most Recently The Solaris Project. Harold Budd Met Up With Wobble When He Was Performing At The Brewery Kendal Cumbria In 1999 And Was Invited To Join Him On Stage. The Unlikely Pairing Of Budd’s Ambient Musings And The Dub Combustion Of Deep Space Turned Out To Be A Fascinating Collaboration And Sowed The First Seed Of The Whole Solaris Project. At The Forefront Of Ambient Music Budd Has Collaborated With Brian Eno On Albums Such As The Landmark The Plateaux Of Mirror And The Pearl As Well As With The Cocteau Twins On The Acclaimed The Moon And The Melodies. Budd’s Structured Exploration Of Modal Scales Will Provide The Starting Point For The Solaris Performances. When Considering Who Else To Collaborate With On This Project The Legendary Can Drummer Jaki Leibezeit Seemed An Obvious Choice To Wobble. Having Worked With Deep Space Leibezeit Is Not Only A Master Drummer But Would Also Understand Harold Budd’s Way Of Working. His Work With Can Not Only Helped Define What Has Become Known As Krautrock But Has Also Had A Much Wider Influence With Can Now Being Regarded As One Of The Most Influential Bands Of All Time With Direct Influences Heard In Artists Such As The Fall Pere Ubu Mouse On Mars And Many More. Solaris Sees A Rare UK Performance By Leibezeit In What Will Be A Line-Up Of Legendary Proportions. Bassist Bill Laswell Is Another Member Of The Solaris Team Who Has Worked With An Endless List Of Musicians As The Most Prolific Contemporary Music Producer Performer And Label Manager. Central To The New York Scene Laswell Has Fused Punk Funk Dub Jazz Ambient Electronica And World Music. Forming The World Beat/jazz Hip Hop Group Material Brought Him Into Work With People Such As William Burroughs Jalal From The Last Poets And Mandingo. As Well As Co-Owning And Operating The Influential Celluloid Label Winning A Grammy For His Work With Herbie Hancock He Worked With Him On The Seminal Rockit Laswell Has Worked With What Seems Like Everyone Including Peter Gabriel Yoko Ono Laurie Anderson Talvin Singh Bootsy Collins Fela Kuti DJ Spooky And Now Owns His Own Label Axiom Records. For Solaris Laswell Will Be Playing Distortion Bass With Electronics Alongside Fellow Bass Player Jah Wobble. Innovative Cornet Player Graham Haynes Son Of Great Jazz Drummer Roy Haynes Completes The Solaris Line Up. Haynes Is An Emerging Force In Contemporary Electronic Music And World Beat As His Biography States “he Has Exhumed And Updated European Classics Turned Dance Beats Into Art And Made Art Music Danceable And Rescued Redefinied And Deconstructed That Genre We Still Call ‘jazz’”. Haynes’ Influences Know Few Bounds Drawing From His Father’s Peers Such As Roy Eldridge Jaki Byard And Milt Jackson As Well As His Own Including Marcus Miller And Miles Davis Not To Mention Music From The Worlds Of Electronica Hip Hop Drum N’ Bass World And Classical. Haynes Has Collaborated With Steve Coleman Llonnie Plaxico The Roots David Gilmore Carlos Ward And Bill Laswell As Well Releasing His Own Work Such As The Recent Album BPM Beats Per Minute Inspired By The Wedding Of 19th Century Opera And 21st Century Dance Music. read less