Jah Wobble is a stalker, a restless wanderer between music cultures; from Molam music’s rural love stories from southern Laos, Sufi music’s ecstatic state-of-mind, Jamaica’s dub reggae, and post punk’s trashed rhythms, to the English folk music’s monotonous drone sounds, London visionary Jah Wobble is a musician and a true libertine who upholds freedom of thought and states its superiority. It is music to dream to, dance to, and find an alternative coexistence in.

He is most well known as the bass player in the original line up of John Lydon’s band, Public Image Limited. With his fantastic bass playing, and tones that make the walls of music rumble, Jah Wobble alone changed the perception of rhythm within pop-rock music during the late 70’s. And it is from here LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture and Franz Ferdinand have found a lot of inspiration. And from PIL Jah Wobble made his way into far more unknown experimental music areas. Through the years, he has released loads of albums; most of them with the group, The Invaders of the heart, and the majority of them on his own label, 30 Hertz.

He has co-operated with Brian Eno, Björk, Massive Attack, Sinead O’Connor, Pharoah Sanders, Natasha Atlas, Primal Scream, Baaba Maal, Holger Czukay, Bill Laswell and Gigi among others. During the 00’s Jah Wobble has come closer to the roots of English folk music, notably on his album, English Roots Music. Here he moves in a stream of psychedelic folk music influences that link artists like Devandra Banhart, Vashti Bunyan, Matmos, Coil and Animal Collective. The unique melodies of bag pipes and tin whistles tell us stories of lost love and possessed places; the music is a couple of hundred years old, but its tales are of a living and contemporary desire.

Jah Sound