Jah Wobble & Tian Qiyi // Mystic Liverpool LP – 14 August // Autumn Tour

On June 23, 2026

JAH WOBBLE & TIAN QIYI

MYSTIC LIVERPOOL LP // 14 AUGUST

JAH WOBBLE UK DATES // AUTUMN 2026

Bassist and producer Jah Wobble has teamed up with his sons John T Wardle and Charlie Wardle – who perform together as Tian Qiyi – to release Mystic Liverpool, a deeply personal reimagining of The Beatles’ psychedelic period. The album will be released by Cherry Red Records on 14 August.

Listen to Tomorrow Never Knows here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cTBsp1QjyM

Mystic Liverpool draws on Jah Wobble’s signature dub bass; John T’s drums, Chinese percussion and yangqin; and Charlie’s erhu and vocals, with Charlie also playing morin khuur on Strawberry Fields Forever. The boys’ mother Zi Lan Liao – a Royal Academy Of Music trained harpist and director of Pagoda Arts in Liverpool – plays guzheng on the same track. The album was recorded and mixed by John T at Pagoda Studios in Liverpool, where Tian Qiyi is now based, with production from Jah Wobble, John T and Charlie.

The Liverpool connection runs deep through the family itself. Zi Lan’s father, Mr K.H. Li (Liao Gui Xiong) arrived from Guangzhou in 1981 as Chinese Cultural Officer at the Pagoda and went on to establish the Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra – the ensemble Zi Lan now runs and that both her sons grew up playing in from the age of three. The record is dedicated to Zi Lan’s father: a lifelong Beatles fan, he owned everything they ever released on vinyl.

“The track that flipped it for me as a kid was Strawberry Fields Forever,” says Jah Wobble. “I didn’t have the language for what was going on in that song – I just knew it was more than music. The words you’d reach for are the ones people use about psychedelia – ego dissolution, a sense of unity, cosmic connection. I consider dub music to fit into the psychedelia genre, and John T and Charlie grew up listening to dub, so Mystic Liverpool was always going to have that sensibility.”

The album moves through The Beatles’ psychedelic-era songbook with Chinese instrumentation and dub-inflected mixing, treating the material as the genuinely mystical music it always was rather than simply nostalgic covers. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour are particular touchstones. Pre-order Mystic Liverpool HERE

Mystic Liverpool track list:

Tomorrow Never Knows
Strawberry Fields Forever
Within You Without You
I Am The Walrus
Norwegian Wood
Blue Jay Way
The Inner Light
Love You To
Flying
Rain

ABOUT JAH WOBBLE

John Wardle records and performs as Jah Wobble. A founding member of Public Image Ltd, he has worked with Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of Can, Bill Laswell, Bjork, Brian Eno and Sinead O’Connor among many others over a career spanning almost fifty years. He leads his band The Invaders Of The Heart – the current line-up of which has been with him for sixteen years – and tours regularly across the UK, Europe, North America and Japan

ABOUT TIAN QIYI

Tian Qiyi is the duo formed by John T Wardle and Charlie Wardle, taking its name from their Chinese middle names Tian Qi and Tian Yi. Based in Liverpool, the duo bridges British, Chinese, Mongolian and dub traditions. Their latest album, Songs For Workers, is currently available via Pagoda Records.

In the autumn Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart will play the following UK dates:

OCTOBER

Sat 03 STOURBRIDGE Katie Fitzgerald’s

Fri 16 TODMORDEN Unitarian Church (METAL BOX with Jon Klein)

Wed 21 FROME Tunnels

Thu 22 BRISTOL Fleece

Fri 23 READING Face Bar

NOVEMBER

Sat 07 LONDON Bush Hall

WEBSITE: www.jahwobble.com

TICKETS: www.songkick.com

BANDCAMP: https://jahwobble.bandcamp.com