Captain Yossarian - Fela Kuti in Dub EP

REPRESS IN THE WORKS END OF THE MONTH, WILL UPDATE HERE SO CAN PREORDER.

Oh heck, Dub takes on Zombie, Water get no enemy, Everybody Scatter and Expensive shit. It's sold out on bandcamp even as I write this on the day it came out. Don't sleep, as they say.

From the label:

Fela Kuti in Dub is a showcase album containing four essential songs by Fela Kuti in the style of a Jamaican Discomix, evolving from an instrumental cover version to a dub version, celebrating the musical heritage of Nigeria and Jamaica likewise.

Please understand this work as a hommage to both musical cultures.

The four tracks were chosen because they are a timeless witness to the political potential of music, that being proofed by their actuality. The songs feature essential dub effects like echoes, reverb and filtering but also feature analogue sound effects underlining and sonically illustrating the missing lyrical content. These vary from thundery spring reverbs and percussion instruments imitating the pouring rain on „Water No Get Enemy“ to marching soldiers and shot gun like reverbs on „Zombie“. From a cash register on „Expensive Shit“ to the dub sirens created live on a Korg MS10 on „Everything Scatter“.

Only analogue instruments, sounds and dub effects were used on this recording. Mixing, dubs and arrangements were done live in consecutive sessions. The premaster was done by Sodi Marciszewer at Zarma Studios (Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti, Damian Marley) on the original Decca desk used by Fela Kuti in Lagos. Fela Kuti In Dub was conceived and produced by Cpt. Yossarian alias Manuel da Coll musician, producer and soundman from Munich/Germany. His last work „Bob Marley In Dub“ (2021, Echobeach) attained a lot of critical acclaim and was featured by Don Letts on BBC6, the Riddim Magazine and Helmut Phillips book „DUB - The Sound Of Surprise“ amongst others.

Manuel da Coll plays drums with LaBrassBanda (Bavarian Brass), FEH (Trip Hop) and runs a mobile soundsystem, the Dubtrain.one, displaying his work at live dub sessions. He is the owner of „Studio Katzlbaum“, a studio devoted to dub production in Munich/Germany.

Mixes and live dubs by Seb-I/Sebastian Kellig and Cpt. Yossarian/Manuel da Coll, Sausage Studio/London

Premaster by Sodi Marciszewer, Zarma Studio/Paris

Master by Frederic Stader, Music Matters/Berlin

Zombie In Dub 7:55min

Prince Tempopolice (Santrofi/Ghana) - drums

Sebastian Höglauer (Kapelle So&So/Germany) - trumpet

Stefan Huber (Kapelle So&So/Germany) - horn

Niko Schabel (Radio Citizen/Germany) - alto and tenor saxophone

Jakob Lakner (YXALAG/Germany) - bariton saxophone

Steffen Müller (Connexion Balkon, Germany) - bass, rhythm guitar

Manuel da Coll (Cpt. Yossarian, Germany) - tenor guitar, drums, percussion, dubs, effects

Water No Get Enemy In Dub 8:36min

Jan Weissenfeldt (Poets Of Rhythm/Germany) - rhythm guitar, tenor guitar

Sebastian Höglauer (Kapelle So&So/Germany) - trumpet

Stefan Huber (Kapelle So&So/Germany) - horn

Niko Schabel (Radio Citizen/Germany) - alto and tenor saxophone

Jakob Lakner (YXALAG/Germany) - bariton saxophone

Steffen Müller (Connexion Balkon, Germany) - bass

Manuel da Coll (Cpt. Yossarian, Germany) - keys, drums, percussion, dubs, effects

Everything Scatter In Dub 8:37min

Sebastian Höglauer (Kapelle So&So/Germany) - trumpet

Stefan Huber (Kapelle So&So/Germany) - horn

Niko Schabel (Radio Citizen/Germany) - alto and tenor saxophone

Jakob Lakner (YXALAG/Germany) - bariton saxophone

Steffen Müller (Connexion Balkon, Germany) - bass, rhythm guitar, tenor guitar

Manuel da Coll (Cpt. Yossarian, Germany) - drums, percussion, dubs, effects

Expensive Shit In Dub 8:26min

Jimi Tenor (Solo Artist/Finland) - alto saxophone

Chris Smithson (Caravana Sun/Australia) - keys

Sebastian Höglauer (Kapelle So&So/Germany) - trumpet

Stefan Huber (Kapelle So&So/Germany) - horn

Niko Schabel (Radio Citizen/Germany) - tenor saxophone

Jakob Lakner (YXALAG/Germany) - bariton saxophone

Steffen Müller (Connexion Balkon, Germany) - bass, rhythm guitar, tenor guitar

Manuel da Coll (Cpt. Yossarian, Germany) - drums, percussion,