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Artist List:
Amampondo
Amjad Ali Khan
Asad Qizilbash
Bembeya Jazz
Chico Cesar
Clave Y Guaguanco
Eliza Carthy Big Band
Ensemble Kaboul
Jimmy Cliff
Julien Jacob
LoJo
Manecas Costa
Manu Dibango and
Ray Lema
Nitin Sawhney
Ojos de Brujo
Oumou Sangare
Pape and Cheikh
Samba Sunda
Sevara Nazarkhan
Sierra Maestra
Super Rail Band
Temple of Sound
Teofilo Chantre
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Profile:
Temple of Sound
"We like to combine the raw with the technological," declares Neil Sparkes who is one half of Temple of Sound. Sparkes and fellow traveller Count Dubulah first combined their considerable talents as producers and songwriters in the early heyday of Transglobal Underground when they were responsible for writing and producing large chunks of the seminal 'Dream of 100 Nations' LP including the hit 'International Times'. Before that Count Dubulah was a close collaborator of Mykael Riley from Steel Pulse and a lynchpin of The Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra.
What bonds these two maverick creators is a broad obsession with all sorts of musical styles: Latin, reggae, African, Arabic, Asian, house, pop, hip-hop and a love of deep and depth-charged dub bass. Temple of Sound collaborated with Rizwan Muazzam Qawwali from Pakistan on the Real World album 'People's Colony No.1' and with Jah Wobble on the CD 'Shout At the Devil', before recently releasing their own debut 'First Edition' on the French label Wagram.
They have also remixed tracks for Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Fun-da-mental and Fatback Band amongst others. Other production and writing partners have included Natasha Atlas, Peter Gabriel, The Last Poets and Linton Kwesi Johnson. In fact Temple of Sound's CV positively buzzes with exciting names and intriguing episodes of daredevil music adventurism.
Dubulah and Sparkes, who is a poet and a painter as well as a vocalist, percussionist and songwriter, revel in wide open horizons and seemingly impossible creative challenges. But however far their imaginations roam, their music is always anchored by that raw technology and dub wise groove.
Biography by Andy Morgan, July 2003
Official website:
www.templeofsound.co.uk
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