Bombay Dub Orchestra - 3 Cities

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Bombay Dub Orchestra - 3 Cities

“Garry Hughes and Andrew T. Mackay, the endlessly inventive duo that animates Bombay Dub Orchestra, tracked their new album in Mumbai and Chennai in India and London. It was an ambitious undertaking that has yielded an entrancing follow-up to their brilliant 2006 self-titled debut. The Hughes/ Mackay vibe is South Asian dub executed with cinematic sweep. Their music, as heard on “Junoon,” “Strange Constellations” and “Map of Dusk,” is often an extremely unique sort of chill that’s equally beholden to Indian traditional forms, South Asian underground and a Western symphonic sensibility. On “Spiral,” however, the insistent beat and a dynamic, swooping string arrangement lays on something a little more earthy. The dub exoticism of “Monsoon Malabar” is underwritten by a throbbing electronica groove beneath Pradeep Pandit’s multilayered vocalese, which is somewhat reminiscent of late-’80s Sheila Chandra. —Philip Van Vleck”