Album Notes

The powerful WordSound I Powa posse from Brooklyn in a hip hop reggae dub outing that could be likened to George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic let loose in a world of fantasy dubadelic!
This underground sound system guerrilla action includes Scarab, Roots Control, Spectre, Dubadelic, Rankin' Boopsman, Canadian dub poet Lillian Allen, The Illness, Dr. Israel, Conscious Sounds, Megabyte and the .

Brooklyn's WordSound I Powa have released numerous albums on their own label, which have startled the European dub scene!
Freakbody music for the millenium." - Paper
"Strap in and prepare for blast-off. WordSound shakes the town from the underground, everytime. Dub is the frequency and WordSound is Powa."

A word from Neil Cooper of ROIR and Dub Freak #1:
"This is the best, newest and most innovative sound system in America today. This is an absolutely fantastic CD, a new generation of dub with strong hip hop and sampling influences. We will be hearing a lot from this group."

AMG Review:
Though the album was released under ROIR's imprint, the usual home of Wordsound I Powa is Wordsound Records, where you'll also find such American reggae/hip-hop/illbient luminaries as Scarab, Spectre and the Crooklyn Dub Consortium. This collection of mostly dub-inflected reggae and illbient tracks features a number of Wordsound regulars, including Likkle Jer and the Rankin' Boopsman
(who together deliver a nice Spanglish deejay performance on "Puro Malo") and Dr. Israel (who checks in with a restrained but impressive jungle remix of the boroughcentric "Saidisyabruklinmon Nobwoycyantess"). There's also a tedious and overlong piece of dub poetry and a number of thoroughly wicked bass-heavy instrumentals-"Bass Flight" is especially impressive with its creative sampling and cavernous headspace. Nothing on this album will change the way you listen to reggae, but it's definitely a wise investment overall. - Rick Anderson