Solaris

Jah Wobble's Solaris live at Ocean London 2001 Harold Budd: piano; Graham Haynes: trumpet; Jah Wobble: bass; Bill Laswell: bass; Jaki Liebezeit: drums. Exceprts from 1st track (total over 45mins.). Listen to full tracks. especially Twilight part2. Taking the name for the project from Russian film maker Andrei Tarkovsky’s sci-fi classic Solaris, Jah Wobble talks about his inspiration in the director’s faith and belief; “You get this mystical vision of the world, a certain kind of stillness. Now the world of film has been influenced by the wacky world of video, where you’ve got to have scene changes and fast edits every second or two. And that reminded me of record companies in the 80s and 90s. You couldn’t let things run for a few bars without change going on, because god forbid but the audience is so fucking stupid they might lose the plot, they might get bored. You can’t have that, they’ve always got to be stimulated. It’s very unhealthy shit that’s going on. That’s why Tarkovsky is the antidote to that kind of craziness.” Wobble’s Solaris project offers its own antidote through music itself.