EXCLAIM!
April 2004

DUB TRINITY AND CHET SINGH

Drum and bass duo Dub Trinity have their priorities straight. This Peterborough band have taken their love of reggae and African music, and their passion for a good political cause, and have done a Dennis Bovell — meaning they've hitched up with their very own Union Kwesi Johnson, in the form of Centennial College professor and dub poet Chet Singh. Gregory Roy (drums/percussion) and Beau Dixon (bass/keys) have a knack for seeking out dub poets to perform with and they make a point of keeping the subject matter political. In Chet Singh they have found an excellent collaborator, both fiercely opinionated and musically adept enough to flow freely overtop the band's grooves. Singh takes on Middle Eastern bloodshed in "Angels of Mercy," jumps into the skin of a Peterborough racist in the Bad Brains-inspired "System Fraud," and reminds Bush, Blair, Hussein and bin Laden that "Everything we do is going to come back to we."

(www.dubtnnity.com)
Brent Hagerman