Adrian Sherwood Presents: Dub No Frontiers
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Black vinyl edition. Comes with download code and 12-page booklet featuring artist Peter Harris's paintings of inspiring women from the world of literature, politics, law, civil rights and medicine, such as cover star Afeni Shakur Davis alongside Claudia Jones, Flo Kennedy, Barbara Jordan, Claudette Colvin and Mary Seacole.
This album is dedicated to the memory of both Ariane 'Ari Up' Forster and Lincoln Valentine 'Style' Scott with whom the project started. 'Dub No Frontiers' is inspired by and features women vocalists we knew from the UK or had met while travelling around the world. Many of the singers said they felt the Dub/Reggae arena was a bit of a male preserve and a little intimidating even, so we decided to invite artistes to perform a song of their choice, all in non-English on our rhythm tracks. The idea was to then try and evolve DNF into a powerful live show and to tour with a core of vocalists, musicians and guests...