Another fitting comment to the times we live in comes in pastell artwork by Mark Stewart associate Peter Harris who was also responsible for quite a few recent ON-U Sound covers. A mellow genre bending new work by Adrian Sherwood without vocals and no words besides the song titles – “Hiroshima Dub Match”, “Battles Without Honour And Humanity” or “Spaghetti Best Western” which speak for itself.
He’s taken actually 13 years since “Survival And Resistance” which was equally short but one of my personal highlights of his impressive amount of work. Of course he did not rest all this time – issuing two albums in collaboration with Pinch in 2015/17 and more collaboration work with The Near Jazz Experience, Fire, Panda Bear besides his restless work producing and mixing and releasing archive box sets for the most prominent ON-U Sound acts; Dub Syndicate, African Head Charge, New Age Steppers and Creation Rebel.
Back to his current album which is surprisingly coherent and peaceful compared to the preceeding 10″ single of “The Grand Designer” and it’s additional tracks which ended up as bonus on the Japanese CD version. As it’s 2025 there’s also a transparent LP version available together with a casual black one. Actually I can see the endless praise coming along but not without reason.
Musicians involved are mainly Doug Wimbish and Mark Bandola but there are plenty of guest spots for Horseman, Gaudi, Jazzwad and even Brian Eno.
Posthumous featured is Keith LeBlanc, the incredible drummer from Tackhead and so many related projects, on “Body Roll” and “Spirits” and these are the most driving rhythms inmidst this post-everything cocktail.
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