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Just so there aren't any misunderstandings: Umberto Eco is, as we all know, an Italian author, professor, hermeneutics expert and polymath, who on the basis of his creative output seems to have at least four arms and two brains. Umberto Echo, and this is a fact perhaps only the cognoscenti of reggae, jazz and dub music will know, is a (music) author, professor, expert in (sound) hermeneutics and multi-instrumentalist from Munich who also has two brains and at least eight arms! Or so it seems when you watch his hands skimming across the mixing desk, transforming the musical raw material of a riddim into dub live on stage, FOH or in the studio.
After collaborating as producer, engineer and musician on over 80 albums, ranging from rock to classical & jazz through to reggae; writing Bavarian reggae history along the way with Jahcoustix, Jamaram and Headcornerstone, and producing for a swathe of international reggae vocalists, including Alborosie, Junior Kelly, Luciano and Luton Fyah, Professor Echo finally revealed his true identity two years ago by getting on the Dub Train - his debut album as sound scientist of the digital echo chambers and analogue loops, disciple of Duke Ellington and King Tubby. Released on the prestigious jazz label enjarecords and shaped by Umberto Echo's immense instrumental and production skills, the album explained in very few words where the man came from. The successor to this debut, which is released on Echo Beach, is Dub The World and it shows him as a sound manipulator whose virtuoso control of mixing desk, software and outboards is equalled only by his mastery of keyboards, guitar, bass and percussion. The new album maps where the Dub Train journey took him. While Umberto Eco attempts to explain the world in his books, monographs and essays, there's only one way for Umberto Echo: to dub the world.
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