Emily Dickenson meets Dreadlocks in the Malt Shop

Walter Benjamin posits a fragmented world, a tangled mass of wreckage blown by a powerful storm into the future. He used Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus as an image of “the angel of history,” staring at the fragments of the world, compassionately wanting to help but blown farther and farther away. We are left to figure it out.

Bombarded with images, sounds, flashes of thoughts, dreams, texts,
sequences—we piece together montages—composites often made of distant pieces. The process of making this recording of flings distant pieces together. The primary fragment is Lee Scratch Perry’s “Dreadlocks in Moonlight” which has long been a favorite of ours. We also juxtaposed two other fragments: the melody from another Lee Perry production “Bird in Hand” which serves as both intro and extro and a shot excerpt from Emily Dickenson’s _______. The title that we have chosen makes reference to another reggae classic: Augustus Pablo meets King Tubby in a Firehouse.
The players:
Mike Opitz vocals, programming and mixing
Tom Daddesio bass and webmaster
Caitlin Brutger keyboards, vocals and art work