Riding Strange Horses by Dub Spencer & Trance Hill

Riding Strange Horses like

by Dub Spencer & Trance Hill

Price:: €10.99



1	play	Add to Playlist	Man With The Harmonica	3:52	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
2	play	Add to Playlist	London Calling	4:04	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
3	play	Add to Playlist	Echo Beach	4:16	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
4	play	Add to Playlist	Jeanny	5:37	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
5	play	Add to Playlist	Eisbär	3:35	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
6	play	Add to Playlist	When I Fall In Love	4:07	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
7	play	Add to Playlist	Smoke On The Water	4:32	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
8	play	Add to Playlist	25 Years	4:55	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
9	play	Add to Playlist	West One	5:00	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
10	play	Add to Playlist	Stop Bajon (Primavera)	4:59	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
11	play	Add to Playlist	Enter Sandman	4:28	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
12	play	Add to Playlist	Mama	8:45	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
13	play	Add to Playlist	POP MUZIK	6:09	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
14	play	Add to Playlist	Blackboard Jungle	4:58	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
15	play	Add to Playlist	The Saints Go Marching Through All The Popular ...	6:34	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like
16	play	Add to Playlist	When I Fall In Love	3:21	€1.19	Buy Share This Song like

Album Info

“Riding Strange Horses“ is the name of the third album by the space cowboys, and it sees the four Swiss musicians herding together a pack of very strange steeds indeed, and then proceeding to ride them in time-honoured rodeo tradition. The strange horses come from famous stables (Falco, The Clash, Genesis, Deep Purple, The Catch, M, Tullio De Piscopo, Grauzone etc.) and have notched up umpteen top-ten hits over the past three decades, albeit in disciplines that have about as much in common with dub as the forlorn pink rocking horse has with the dust-dry desert. Dry-as-dust humour dominates the choice of tracks: monumental pop classics, schmaltzy rock ballads and grimy hits – the stuff that our teenage dreams were made of. The tracklist is heavy on school party classics and cult hits… all lathered up and shaved in the best dub style! Dub Spencer & Trance Hill obviously have a love-hate relationship with many of the original versions, underpinned with a certain covert admiration. With their usual microscopic attention to detail they hammer and chisel out their own versions, applying with incredible consistency their unique magic to each track and infusing it with their distinctive irony and sarcasm. The result is an eloquent answer to the authenticity debate currently raging in the European reggae scene. The aim was to keep the vocals as authentic as possible, and so the band did the obvious thing and contacted the copyright holders: their version of the 1984 British chart hit “25 Years” by The Catch (which made it into the Swiss top ten) features the original vocals by John Savannah. The soul reggae classic “When I Fall In Love” brings in the master and composer himself, Ken Boothe, and for the new wave hits “Echo Beach” and “Pop Muzik”, Martha Johnson from Toronto and Robin Scott from London rerecorded their vocals. Naturally, it wouldn’t be the same without Dub Master Lee “Scratch” Perry – who actually resides in Zurich! His inimitable voice crowns a version of his own manifest “Blackboard Jungle”. More local vocal power comes courtesy of William White, one of the most soulful voices in Switzerland; he sings the classic Deep Purple track “Smoke On The Water”. The album also contains a genuine scandal song, even though the scandal occurred a few years ago: in spring 08 Dub Spencer & Trance Hill posted their version of “Jeanny” on the web to mark the anniversary of Falco’s death. Back in the day, the original was banned from German television after a week of tumultuous protest. The Austrian radio station FM4 discovered the new version of the song and put it on rotation. Fired by the same fighting spirit of the duo they named themselves after, the Swiss band have transformed each track into an ital karaoke version with a heavy dub feel. Displaying incredible marksmanship and punch, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill beat their cover versions into submission and then bring them back to life, sparkling with wit and groove. Familiar old hits are distilled down to their very essence and are reborn in truly great new versions!