During this years Reggae Dub Festival in Bielawa in August a new polish dub album will have its premiere. Fresh out of Karrot Kommando - the best polish reggae label - smooth yet heavy dub style; it is debut of a group called Ragana! Four players of the instruments create the musical space, where gaps in between are as important as sounds itself.

The drummer & co-founder of Ragana, Marek Piotrowicz says - Dub is something you can not get just by putting the instrument parts together. It's something that enters your head and brings life to different parts of your body. Its all about space while maintaining the reggae pulse.

The Album is called So Many Reverbs Cross. The role of the instruments is mainly focused on rhythm section. With riddim background, Jagha is singing different stories and it is her distinctive voice that gives the melodic element to the album. Like the title suggests, the music is just pure DUB - spacious effects & sounds, which were mixed in by dub engineers at Studio As One in Warsaw.

- This is the first polish band in many years to play this kind of dub, old school, analog style. That means that 99 percent of the effects on this album has been recorded in real time, using vintage and modern effect processors - says Jarek "Smok" Smak, the producer and mixing engineer - We had beautiful melodies and plenty of space to use different kinds of dub-mixing machines. Its sensational!

On the album we can also hear a bras section of Crispy Horns. This British group was featured on album of artists such as Love Grocer or Zion Train. You can find it in the track Listen To Your Heart, which is their promo piece. Check out this track and more on www.karrot.pl/somanyreverbstocross/ang.

Whole album preview mp3's packed in *.zip file are avaible at this link: http://ragana.pl/mp3/So_Many_Reverbs_To_Cross/Ragana_-_So_Many_Reverbs_To_Cross.zip.

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