return to the dub station 返嗒

by Celestial 天上

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of subversions vol. II, subversions vol.I, retrospect 七重天, return to the dub station 返嗒, cloud songs, electric road 電器道, hong kong dub station 香港空轉, happy valley 快活谷, and 1 more. , and , .

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1.	Return To The DubStation 00:53	buy track
2.	Kulanjan Dub 05:41	buy track
3.	Cang Ding Dub 04:25	buy track
4.	Beautiful Day Dub 03:58	buy track
5.	Plum Crazy Dub 04:07	buy track
6.	Miniamba Dub 04:12	buy track
7.	Empty Chair Dub 04:45	buy track
8.	Mika's Dub 03:59	buy track
9.	Ghost Dub 05:49	buy track
10.	Insomniac Dub 03:58	buy track
11.	Trans-Mongolian Dub 04:48	buy track
12.	Magic Dub 04:42	buy track
13.	San An 產安 06:37	buy track

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"Return To The DubStation 返嗒" is the sixth album from Hong Kong collective Celestial 天上, in which they go back to their roots, for another taste of the sounds that got them excited at the outset.

"I just felt an irrational longing for the twangy spring reverbs and deep space phased echoes of my youth" says the driving force behind the group, Peter Millward.

"These days the technology just doesn't excite any more - so what better direction to go for inspiration than backwards? Back to the Future!"

The album features a combination of brand new compositions, and previous Celestial tracks that have been re-recorded in full Dubly. Many of the usual collaborators are here again: Hsin Hsiao Hung on Erhu, Eugene Pao on guitar; Sunny Yeung on Shakuhachi; Nigel Wightman on Trombone; Adrian Da Silva and Ela R. Alegre on vocals; plus new contributors - Japanese fine artist Hisaki Yasuda provides Kora, the African Harp, with his compatriot and friend Kana Kobayashi on vocals; also from Germany, the poignant chromatic harmonica of Jens Bunge; and the beating heart of Hong Kong DrumJam, Kumi Masunaga, on percussion.

The sleeve has screen-printed by hand somewhere in a decaying street market by our good friends at ChinaStylus.com, and, like the music, it is also heavily influenced by the brash punk/dub ethos of the late '70s - as a reflection of that, it is LP size, i.e. 12" x 12" - and good enough to hang on your wall.

Celestial 天上 have been releasing albums in Hong Kong since 1996 - and have also featured on many compilation albums, for example Café Del Mar Volumen Ocho (S. E. Asian Edition). For more information please visit: www.hongkongdubstation.com

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released December 31, 2013

Erhu: Hsin Hsiao Hung (1, 3, 9, 10, & 11)
Shakuhachi: Sunny Yeung (5, 8, 10 & 13)
Percussion: Kumi Masunaga (2, 6, 8 & 10)
Vocals: Kana Kobayashi (2 & 6)
Kora: Hisaki Yasuda (2 & 6)
Vocal: Ela R. Alegre (4)
Lead Guitar: Eugene Pao (4)
Vocal: Adrian Da Silva (7)
Harmonica: Jens Bunge (7)
Trombone: Nigel Wightman (9)

Arranged, Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Peter Millward at Drum Music, Hong Kong.
©p 2013 Drum Music Limited

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Celestial 天上

Celestial 天上 are a Hong Kong based collective who have produced nine albums of Asian Dubscapes:

“Spirit House”, released 1996, “Happy Valley 快活谷” 2001, “Hong Kong Dub Station 香港空轉”, 2004, “Electric Road 電器道” 2007, "Cloud Songs" 2009, "Return To The DubStation", released 2014,“Retrospect 七重天”, released in 2016, Subversions Vol. I, and Vol. II both released in 2022. ... more

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