Jah wobble

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Jah Wobble (born August 11, 1958 in London , real name John Joseph Wardle ) is a British musician , record producer and owner of the record company 30 Hertz Records .

life and work

Jah Wobble grew up in Whitechapel in London's East End , where he met Sid Vicious and his future bandmate John Lydon while at London's Kingsway College . After Lydon left the Sex Pistols in 1978, he recruited Wobble for his newly formed post punk band Public Image Ltd. (PiL), of which Wobble was a member from May 1978 to July 1980. As a bass player, he shaped the band's sound at the time with his memorable deep bass runs, which were inspired by reggae and dub . The origin of his stage name is somewhat uncertain; According to a frequently mentioned story, he got this name from his close friend at the time, Sid Vicious, whose drunken mumbling of Wobble's real name, John Wardle , made him sound like Jah Wobble . Other interpretations relate his name to his fascination with the wobbly bass lines of reggae.

After leaving PiL, he began a long-term collaboration with the musicians Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of the German band Can , which led to a number of influential releases: Wobble was a guest musician on Czukay's On the way to the peak of normal (1981) as also active on Rome remains Rome (1987) and released the album Full Circle (1984) with Czukay and Liebezeit . In 1983 he appeared together with Czukay, Liebezeit and U2's The Edge on the commercially relatively successful mini album Snake Charmer , but due to alcohol addiction and disaffected by the increasing commercialization of the music industry, Wobble was increasingly sidelined. This led to a temporary absence from the music scene, during which he hired himself as a driver in the London Underground and as a minicab driver.

After successful alcohol withdrawal and regaining a foothold in the music industry, Jah Wobble returned to the music business in 1989 with his band The Invaders Of The Heart . He now combined world music and dub with pop elements and had commercial success in Great Britain from 1990 to 1994. During this period he worked with countless artists and bands, including Sinéad O'Connor , Bill Laswell , Peter Gabriel , The Orb , Evan Parker , Molam Lao and many others.

On December 3, 1996, he officially founded his own record label 30 Hertz Records , on which he has since published his diverse projects. In 2002 he wrote the soundtrack for the French film Fureur .

30 Hertz Records has been part of Cherry Red Records Limited since 2015 .

Jah Wobble is second married to the Chinese harpist Zi Lan Liao , has two sons (and two daughters from his first marriage, one of them the actress Hayley Angel Wardle ) and graduated in 2000 with a degree in humanities . In addition to his career as a musician, Wobble is also a book critic for the British newspaper The Independent .

His autobiography Memoirs of a Geezer: The Autobiography of Jah Wobble — Music, Mayhem, Life was published in September 2009.

To mark Britain's exit from the EU, Wobble released A Very British Coup, together with former PiL bandmates and Mark Stewart from The Pop Group, a protest single that the online radio station ByteFM called a "low-frequency indictment of conditions".

Discography

The following albums are Jah Wobble's solo works and as a member of Public Image Ltd. (PiL).

  • First Issue (with PiL) (1978)
  • Metal Box / Second Edition (with PiL) (1979)
  • Paris au Printemps / Paris In The Spring (with PiL) (1980)
  • The Legend Lives on ... Jah Wobble in Betrayal (1980)
  • VIEP (1980)
  • Bedroom Album (1983)
  • Snake Charmer (with Holger Czukay , Jaki Liebezeit and The Edge ) (1983)
  • Neon Moon (1985)
  • Tradewinds (1986)
  • Psalms (1987)
  • Without Judgment (1989)
  • Rising Above Bedlam (1991)
  • Take Me to God (1993)
  • Spinner (with Brian Eno ) (1995)
  • Heaven and Earth (1995)
  • The Inspiration of William Blake (1996)
  • The Celtic Poets (with Ronnie Drew ) (1997)
  • Requiem (1997)
  • The Light Program (1998)
  • Umbra Sumus (1998)
  • The Five Tone Dragon - Jah Wobble presents Zi Lan Liao (1998)
  • Deep Space (1999)
  • Full Moon Over the Shopping Mall (2000)
  • Beach Favor Spare (2000)
  • 30 Hertz - A Collection of Diverse Works From A Creative Genius (2000)
  • Molam Dub (with Molam Lao ) (2001)
  • Passage to Hades (with Evan Parker ) (2001)
  • Radio Axiom (with Bill Laswell ) (2001)
  • Deep Space: Largely Live in Hartlepool & Manchester (2002)
  • Shout at the Devil (with Temple of Sound ) (2002)
  • Solaris: Live in Concert (2002)
  • Fly (2003)
  • Five Beat (2004)
  • I Could Have Been a Contender (anthology) (2004)
  • Elevator Music V.1A (2004)
  • Car Ad Music (2004)
  • Mu (2005)
  • Alpha-One-Three (2006)
  • Jah Wobble & The English Roots Band (2006)
  • Heart and Soul (2007)
  • Chinese Dub (2008)
  • Japanese Dub (2010)
  • Welcome to my World (2010)
  • 7 (2011)
  • Psychic Life (with Julie Campbell ) (2011)
  • Yin & Yang (with Keith Levene ) (2012)
  • Anomic (with Marconi Union ) (2013)

Hit singles (British music charts)

  • Public Image Ltd. - "Public image" (1978) no.9
  • Public Image Ltd. - "Death disco" (1979) no.20
  • The Orb (feat. Jah Wobble) - "Blue room" (1992) no.8
  • Jah Wobble + The Invaders Of The Heart - "Visions of you" (1992) no.35
  • Björk (feat. Jah Wobble) - "Play dead" (1993) no.12
  • Jah Wobble + The Invaders Of The Heart - "Becoming more like God" (1994) no.36

swell

  1. ↑ a b Simon Reynolds: Rip it Up and Start Again - Postpunk 1978-1984 . faber and faber, 2005, ISBN 978-0-571-21570-6 .
  2. ↑ The Times Online, March 24, 2007, 'I'm still ye olde noble savage'
  3. ↑ Cherry Red Records - Home 30 Hertz. January 1, 2015, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Memoirs of a Geezer: The Autobiography of Jah Wobble — Music, Mayhem, Life , Serpent's Tail, ISBN 978-1846687129
  5. ↑ Bass against Brexit: Jah Wobble and the post-punk-dub squad. In: ByteFM. February 1, 2020, accessed February 8, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wobble, yeah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wardle, John Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician and record producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH London
  1. ↑ JW - Jah Wobble. Retrieved January 28, 2020 (English).