Echoes & sirens is Diatribes' new step in the research on a possible relation between dub and experimental music, pushing further what they initiated with “Great Stone/Blood dunza” (aussenraum, AR-LP-003). They follow the history of dub music, from King Tubby's minimalist remixing techniques to the second life of this music in England and the rise of a new generation of sound systems. The concept of this album follows a path of four tunes, all classics of the early 80's period, considered as four imaginary moments of a sound system night, each one being then processed under different sonic and structural perspectives. The music on this LP is not dub music, nor a dub version of experimental music, it's not remixes nor figurative lanscapes. Like a tension between silence and the deafening experience of a sound system at full volume, it takes the risk to conjure many references. For this release Diatribes (Cyril Bondi: drums, electric organ, d'incise: electronic, samples, delay, melodica) are being joind by Raphael Ortis (electric bass) and the HORNS quartet (Pierre-Antoine Badaroux: alto saxophone, Betrand Denzler: tenor saxophone, Louis Laurain: trumpet, Fidel Fourneyron: trombone).
200 copies on 180g vinyl, cut by Flo Kaufmann.