Roots Tonic, Roots Tonic Meets Bill Laswell - 47m 23s

Tracks & Durations

1. Road to Axum	5:34
2. Concrete Sunrise	5:23
3. Akademikus Du Umbeigu	5:10
4. JD3	6:35
5. Employees Must Wash Your Hands	6:10
6. Instrument of the Trinity	6:29
7. Healing of the Nations	5:48
8. Clean Escape (The Crew is Here)	6:08

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Review

You may have already heard Roots Tonic. In fact, you may love Roots Tonic and not even know it. Roots Tonic is Hasidic reggae superstar Matisyahus band. Matisyahus star has risen dramatically in this past year, culminating in the recent release of Youth on Sony/Epic (currently #4 on Billboards Top 200) and the certification of Live at Stubbs as a Gold Record. One cannot underestimate the importance of Roots Tonic to Matisyahus success. Roots Tonic bassist Josh Werner co-writes many of Matisyahus songs, and Roots Tonic brings those songs to stage, to record and to life, making them pop with the drama and dynamics youll hear on this album. It is no coincidence that world class bassist and producer Bill Laswell is involved in this project. For one, it is Laswell who produced Matisyahus Youth. Laswell, the world music genre-fusing genius, has worked with so many notable artists: Mick Jagger, Afrika Bambaataa, Yoko Ono, Brian Eno, Fela Kuti, John Zorn, Peter Gabriel, George Clinton, Herbie Hancock, Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Motorhead, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sly & Robbie, Swans, Last Poets, and has remixed the work of Santana, Bob Marley & Miles Davis. As one writer puts it, Bill Laswell is god. Can you prove hes not? He is a true maverick and a perfect match for Roots Tonic and Matisyahus blend of reggae, hip hop, soul and traditional Jewish music. Their chemistry was so perfect, in fact, that after the Youth sessions were completed, Laswell invited Roots Tonic back to his Orange Studios to record this album, Roots Tonic Meets Bill Laswell, which is NOT to be confused with the dub version of Matisyahus Youth. With no Matisyahu, Roots Tonic was forced to stand and deliver on an album without vocals or lyrics on which to rely. Deliver they did. With Laswell serving as studio lion Lee Scratch Perry to Roots Tonics Aggravators, Josh, Jonah and Aaron have created a living, breathing disc of instrumental reggae, as funky as, say, the classic Macka Dub by the Barrett Brothers (Aston Family Man Barrett & Carlton Barrett, The Wailers rhythm section). The grooves are so loose and lively you can tell they were having a blast recording. At the mixing board, Laswell economically weaves in everything from synth stabs to phone touch tones to unrecognizable sound splatters. He stays out of the way of the bass, and heaps echo on the drums and guitar, allowing the high end to spiral out from the music.

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