DENNIS BOVELL - Sufferer Sounds DLP Garage

DENNIS BOVELL - Sufferer Sounds DLP GarageDennis Bovells prolific and eclectic career encompasses a huge range of music: from dub poetry to lovers rock to post punk to disco to pop and beyond. His production work encompasses such diverse figures as The Slits, I Roy, Maximum Joy, Fela Kuti, The Pop Group, Janet Kay, Saada Bonaire, Orange Juice, Golden Teacher, Steel Pulse and more. This compilation focuses on the period during and immediately after Bovells involvement with the Jah Sufferer

Gustavo Martinez

and their 1976 LP “Let There Be Spice

Captivating from the beginning to the end

’ this release expands the group’s radical approach to rhythm and structure into the realm of contemporary performance

The band returns to basics with it's core lineup of John Wiese and Charlie Mumma (who you may know from BLOODY PHOENIX or KNELT ROTE)

Weiss trades her punctuated pounding on Dig Me Out for a more suggestive

” Gibbons’ vocals recall the haunt of A

chaotic hardcore to come out of the Chicago area

in late 1982

A wonderful album full of Balearic vibes

They discover a situation that normally is inaudible to the human ear and they can actively shape it by choreographing their movements

the fact that this is classical music by--and for--people who grew up on indie rock in no way diminishes it