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Rating: Jah Wobble is a traitor, a rogue.
J. W. is a Lawrence of Arabia hidden behind a plastic palm tree.
J. W. is a cheeky overdubber with quite a bit of savvy.
Silently expelled from Public Image Ltd., he smuggles recordings for what would later become Flowers of Romance and sets up this nomadic, playful, and facetious theater.
Sure, Metal Box was something else: a perfect object. There, J. W.'s bass was almost numbing. But here J. W. invents small plastic worlds, rough fantasies, incandescent vectors, sci-fi choruses, damn modern life.
Do you know Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)? Well, something like that. But more reckless and defiant and less Wunderkammer.
Exotic scenarios from the dub wizard, 1980.
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