Dub Spencer & Trance Hill
Deep Dive Club
On the new album DEEP DIVE DUB the band dives deeper than Jaques Piccards team during their record-breaking dive in Trieste in the sixties. The focus of this repetition is the fusion of reggae, even though, instead of the lightness that is usually inherent in reggae, the album focuses on heavy grooves, grooves that drift off into fat, dark, mature places. With a hypnotic power, the musicians - all of whom are trained jazz instrumentalists - dive into a world of Space-Rock-Dub-Electro. On a couple of the tracks the band invited the Lucerne-based experimental vocalist Bruno Amstad (who has previously worked with John Zorn and Phil Minton) to contribute. Neither a slave to the great Jamaican heroes of the seventies nor lost in the great wide world of electronic dub - DS & TH tread their own path, reducing and abstracting as they dive deeper and deeper. Irony is the sword of the disenfranchised... and so DUB SPENCER & TRANCE HILL will continue to roll on - like the film duo they borrowed their name from - over the sliders and knobs of the mixing desks of this world!