ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION Release New Video Today Ahead Of H38 Tour
ANNOUNCE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘STAND UP’ OUT OCTOBER 30TH ON ADF COMMUNICATIONS / BELIEVE RECORDINGS)
Brixton Electric show + 10 date October tour performing live score to George Lucas’ THX 1138
“More Signal More Noise ranks with the most potent and vital of their career. Terrifically varied and energizing.” *****Daily Mirror
“An album with positive energy, militancy and more than a few catchy tunes stamped through it like Blackpool Rock.” ****The Arts Desk
“Loud, proud and jam-packed full of superbly arranged and produced tracks… possibly their finest album yet.” 9/10 Louder Than War
“Plenty here finds ADF open-eared and vibrant…dub, jazz and post-punk are threaded together in fresh, unorthodox fashion.” NME
“Asian Dub Foundation are back with a new sense of purpose, positivity and a new lease of life. Huge.” Gigwise
“The band’s politically charged reggae, punk and tabla continues to excite.” Q Magazine
“Innovation and manic aplomb.” Big Cheese 8/10
“Thrillingly affirmative.” London In Stereo
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ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION premiered their video for new single ‘Stand Up’ via Louder Than War last night and it is now available to stream and embed via YouTube – incontestably a protest song, the video – shot in Brick Lane and Brixton – extrapolates the recent experience of gentrification in those areas to make a wider point about the winners and losers of the financial ‘crisis’ of recent years. (Says Aktar “how it impacted on the 99% whilst the 1% rich elite and bankers seemed to have benefited from it. They can spend for war but can’t feed the poor. Enough is enough.”)
Taken from their return-to-form ‘More Signal More Noise’ album ‘Stand Up’, released 30th October is what guitarist Steve Savale describes as ‘A more traditional dub-style ADF tune featuring Nathan ‘Flutebox’ Lee’s radical beatbox flute and MC Aktarvator’s state of the nation address. It was created pretty much on the spot with Adrian Sherwood.’
The band have just announced a show at Brixton Electric on Friday 9th October after which they take their live soundtrack to George Lucas’ 1971 visionary cult sci-fi classic THX 1138 at ten venues nationwide, following its Barbican premiere in June.
17th Usher Hall Edinburgh www.usherhall.co.uk
18th Sage Gateshead www.sagegateshead.com
19th Bridgewater Hall Manchester www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk
20th Philharmonic Hall Liverpool www.liverpoolphil.com
21st Colston Hall Bristol www.colstonhall.org
23rd Corn Exchange Cambridge www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/cornex
24th The Anvil Basingstoke www.anvilarts.org.uk
26th Royal Concert Hall Nottingham www.trch.co.uk
27th Brighton Dome Brighton www.brightondome.org
Talking about the film, Savale is struck by its prescience: “it’s got religious fundamentalism, mad out of control consumerism and computerised systems of domination – I think all of those things exist now”.
Retaining much of Lalo Schiffrin’s distinctive score and soundtrack, ADF’s sparse and beautiful new interpretation creates a memorable live experience to underscore Lucas’ chilling, stylistic dystopian fantasy – where mood-stabilising drugs are mandatory, sex is prohibited, and a young Robert Duval rages against the system. Talking about the project for the Barbican podcast, Savale said “after the success of Battle of Algiers and La Haine I wanted to find another film that’s technically possible to rescore so that audiences can actually watch the film and experience the music live… it was very important to respect the avant-garde, classical, discordant soundtrack that’s there – by one of my great all-time heroes Lalo Schiffrin – where the only melodic instrument is the flute – so Nathan “Flutebox” Lee’s interpretation of those discordant strings is very relevant to the film – it represents the emotion.”
‘More Signal More Noise’ meanwhile, showcases a band shot-through with a new found sense of positive energy, militancy and purpose. Recorded in just three days straight to tape by a thoroughly tour drilled band, and mixed in another three, its urgency and intensity shine through on the finished record.
“I think we sound more alive here than on our previous records,” says Savale. We’re uniting stuff that often isn’t united, radical creativity with a raw primitivism, the primitive experimentalism of the best leftfield rock’n’roll, the best dirty, up-front bass music.”