Brain Damage (dub band)
Brain Damage is a French Dub band, from Saint-Etienne. The band was founded in 1999 by Martin Nathan and Raphael Talis. It is considered one of the pioneering dub bands in France.[1]
History
[edit]Soon after its creation Brain Damage was to be composed solely of its frontman, Martin Nathan.[2][3]
In the early 2000s the band released various albums based on collaborations with Jamaican artists, such as Horace Andy and Winston Mc Anuff.[4]
In 2021 Brain Damage produced Brain Damage meets Big Youth-Beyond the Blue,[5][4] with Big Youth[6][7] and in 2023 Groundation meets Brain Damage-Dreaming From An Iron Gate with Groundation.[8][9]
Discography
[edit]EPs
[edit]- Bipolar Disorder (Bangarang) – 1999
- Brain Damage Dub Sessions meets Sir Jean (Jarring Effects) – 2012
Studio albums
[edit]- Always greener (on the other side) (Bangarang/Hammerbass) – 2002
- Ashes to ashes / Dub to dub (Bangarang/Hammerbass/Sounds Around) – 2004
- Spoken dub manifesto vol.1 (Bangarang/Jarring Effects) – 2006
- Short Cuts (Bangarang/Jarring Effects) – 2008
- Burning before Sunset (Jarring Effects/Discograph) – 2010
- Burning before sunset featuring Black Sifichi (Jarring Effects) – 2010
- High Damage by High Tone meets Brain Damage (Jarring Effects) – 2012
- What you gonna do? (Jarring Effects) – 2012
- Empire Soldiers by Brain Damage meets Vibronics (Jarring Effects) – 2013
- Walk The Walk (Jarring Effects) – 2015
- Talk The Talk (Jarring Effects) – 2016
- Liberation Times by Brain Damage meets Harrison Stafford (Jarring Effects) – 2017
- Ya no mas ! (Jarring Effects) – 2018
- Beyond the Blue by Brain Damage meets Big Youth (Jarring Effects) – 2021
- Dreaming From an Iron Gate by Groundation meets Brain Damage (Baco Records) – 2023
Live albums
[edit]- Short Cuts Live (Jarring Effects/Discograph) – 2009
- Empire Soldiers Live (Jarring Effects / L'Autre Distribution) – 2015
References
[edit]- ^ "Brain Damage, sorcier pionnier du dub français". Radio Nova (in French). Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ^ "Zenzile/Brain Damage : "La scène dub est plus présente que jamais"". www.telerama.fr (in French). 12 March 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ^ "Brain Damage. Un reggae sans frontière avec Harrison Stafford". Le Télégramme (in French). 29 May 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ^ a b (en-US) Marie-Sophie Administrateur, « » [archive], sur What The France, 30 août 2021 (consulté le 30 mai 2023)
- ^ UK, VIBE (18 May 2021). "Brain Damage meets Big Youth". ukvibe.org. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
- ^ "Beyond the Blue, by Brain Damage meets Big Youth". Brain Damage. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "Brain Damage's unexpected tribute to Big Youth on new album". PAM - Pan African Music. 15 April 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ^ Department, World Music Central News (27 May 2023). "Groundation and Brain Damage Collaborate for a Reinvented Reggae Experience on "Dreaming From An Iron Gate" | World Music Central". Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ easystar (4 May 2023). "GROUNDATION RELEASES "FORGIVENESS" WITH BRAIN DAMAGE". Easy Star Records. Retrieved 26 September 2023.