OTTAWA EXPRESS
April 2005

DUBTINITY AND CHET SINGH
BIOGRAPHIES (Socan)

"Canadians get up, get up!"—Chet Singh delivers a poetic wake-up call for complicit Canadians to stand up and fight against the erosion of social programs on "Counter Attack'.'one of many verbally explosive songs on Biographies. The new album is a collaborative effort with Toronto duo Dub Trinity. Singh, a Jamaican-born Peterborough-based poet-activist, mixes rebellion with the Trinity's dub-flavoured island music that occasionally includes Santana-esque guitar wails, and at times heavier head-nodding rifts that complement Singh's dark messages of drug use, corporate sleaze and Canadian politics. Even Alberta's Minister of Environmental Destruction Ralph Klein isn't safe. Singh calls him to account for his record on poverty and the environment on "Why"—"Mr. Klein/lt's a crime/Against humanity." (Matthew Harrison)

November 18th, 2004

Dub Trinity and Chet Singh

Peterborough's Dub Trinity join forces with social activist and dub poet Chet Singh, serving up monster grooves and plainspoken political chatter through this bone-rattling rhythmic beast of a set. The tone is set from the start: "The 'shit-stem' is a fraud," declares Singh with casual disgust, digging into the beat of the opening track, Another Statistic. Then, little by little, the energy rises. Backed by the rocksteady rhythm of Beau Dixon (bass) and Gregory Roy (drums), the less-than-intense Singh turns up the heat as best he can, taking aim at those who "plant the seeds of sorrow/ building a land of no tomorrow." A satisfying fusion of blunt prose and crisp dub beats.

Steve Baylin
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