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  • Limousine To The Guillotine

    RUMPLP014

    Artist: Quasi Dub Development

    Label: Rump Recordings

    Being fans of the German musician F.S.Blumm for many years now, it is with great honour that we can present his latest project on Rump: The Quasi Dub Development. Shortly after the release of their 'F.S. Blumm meets Luca Fadda' collaboration album, these “two peculiar geniuses" (Christoph Büscher/Intro) joined up with Alessandro Coronas to perform their new work in a Sardinian church. But it was on the next day, while walking along a wintry beach, that Luca and Frank discovered their shared love of dub, and from that point the idea of the "Quasi Dub" was born. The idea: to replace dub’s essential bass with the tuba, to replace the tuba with a modulated trumpet, to replace Jamaica with Sardinia. Then add all this to those dreaded bricolage sounds of Blumm… forcing a deliberate confusion to take hold! With this agreed everyone went back home to Berlin, New York and Cagliari, recording independently, each for themselves, but with the idea still in mind and the lasting thought of "one for all and all for one". The result is a cocktail of cultures: invoking the spirits of dub while living across its borders in a whole other world; off the tracks but always close to the heart, very personal… very direct. The specific ingredients are a charming blend, with a breathtaking brass section (with special guest Jason Candler on Saxophone) interacting with an Italian sense of melody and a German feel for clarity and precision. Amongst all this lies a great playfulness, an opening of hori...