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And of course, ten different people will give ten
different explanations as to what it exactly
means. There are people who see a sort of magical
formula described, others will use it as an
argument in their opinion that you can't make DUB
music that has some "power".
Obviously, I personally do not agree that when
you are a conscious artist, when you have
something to say, that you always have to do this
with spoken or sung words in music. I have been
releasing DUB tracks without lyrics for years now,
and so that opinion should be self-evident as
these musical works express this statement
musically.
Fair enough, there's titles and track
descriptions which reveal some things about these
works. But Dub music without words will appeal to
a different part of the brain than a lyrical
track, because of the symbolic language in the
music that has to be recognized and translated. In
fact, that's one of the challenges in producing
DUB Music.
The symbolical language that I
"speak" in my Dub tunes, is open for
different interpretations as the symbols will not
always translate to the symbolical language of the
listener. It's also not spelled-out like a lyric
would do, and so one of the challenges of
producing Dub music that way is to create music
that will also appeal to the "symbolical
illiterates", if you will allow me to use
that term without any intention of disrespect from
my side.
So in the same time, I do recognize the truth
in the phrase. Words are needed in order to
communicate a certain message. It is not for
nothing, that our Lord God and Saviour Yesus
Kristos calls Himself "The Word Of JAH"
(John 1:1).
Throughout the years, my work as an artist has
shown to be not limited to the discipline of
making music. As you are reading this, for you it
will be obvious that I am referring to the fact that I write.
I write even more than
producing music. And writing has everything to do
with... indeed, Word!
These two go hand in hand, as they both express
a certain feeling or thought I have during this
development we call "life". But not necessarily.
It is possible, to check my musical works
without ever reading one word of my articles and
books. In the same time, it is possible to read my
books and articles and don't check my music. I
know this, because I receive feedback from people
of both "groups".
But in order to fully check my work as an
artist, it's not enough to just check the Word
or to just check the Sound. Allow me to
explain this with a brief example of a few years
ago.
In 2005, I released an MP3 album with DUB music
that did not have lyrics coming with them. Many of
the titles and even track descriptions were kind
of vague and open for different interpretation
which was exactly the intention of the project.
Everyone would have their own ideas about it, even
when they didn't use the "key" I
provided.
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