Rubber Orchestras, by Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band

Rubber Orchestras

by Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band

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1.	GRIOT 06:54	buy track
2.	STARTED OFF AS A DANCER 06:03	buy track
3.	COBRA 05:40	buy track
4.	SHE IS THE SEA 08:08	buy track
5.	MONEY SATAN 08:34	buy track
6.	TANTY LYNN 06:08	buy track
7.	BULLET IN THE ROCKS 04:45	buy track
8.	SPEAK THE NAME 07:57	buy track
9.	DAMBALLAH 07:30	buy track
10.	GENERATIONS 11:07	buy track
11.	WORLD PEACE 01:04	buy track

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“The griot is the sound of universal culture.” The opening words of his new album are key to understanding the universe of Anthony Joseph, a poet and musician born in Port of Spain on 12th November 1966 – the day of the Hindu festival of Diwali, which celebrates the passage from darkness into light. This anecdote sheds some light on the life of this preacher-soothsayer inhabited by a vision of the world as a cosmic whole where music creates an organic communion. He grew up on an island full of troubadours, oral legends and carnival convulsions before setting out across the Atlantic and arriving in Great Britain in 1989. He soon became a city man, but never forgot his country roots. A record collector and lover of Great Black Music, from blues roots to deep house, the Londoner soon made his mark on the ‘black rock’ scene, then in the spoken word movement, all the while refining his writing, as can be seen from his first poetry collection, ‘Desafinado’, in 1994, followed four years later by ‘Teragaton’. Anthony Joseph cultivated a distinctive style, Creole in nature, drawing on every form of artistic expression. In 2004 he was selected as one of 50 black and asian authors who have made major contributions to contemporary British literature to pose for the photo ‘A Great Day in London’, which mirrored the famous jazz picture taken in Harlem in 1958. That was the moment things really started to take off for this wizard of sound and sense as he girded his passions into a single project.

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released September 12, 2011

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Anthony Joseph Trinidad and Tobago

Anthony Joseph is a poet, novelist, musician and lecturer described as ‘the leader of the black avant-garde in Britain’. His written work and performance occupies a space between surrealism, Jazz and the rhythms of Caribbean speech and music.

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