07.07.2020 by Conor McTernan

Premiere: Video for Jay Glass Dubs’ “The Wrong Frame,” “Apple, Sliced,” and “Dots On Nails”

Today we present to you an extended music video featuring three brand new tracks hand-picked from Athens-based producer Dimitirs Papadatos’ latest LP, Soma under his Jay Glass Dubs guise for the Berceuse Heroique label.

The three tracks “The Wrong Frame,”  “Apple, Sliced,” and “Dots On Nails” help form a narrative for the 12-minute video, directed by Panos Kostouros and starring Foivos Papadopoulos, both Athenian friends of Dimitirs Papadatos aka Jay Glass Dubs. Inspired by a traumatic relationship and a familiar walking route, the video is intended as a “cathartic walk in locked-in Athens via three different single shots that represent the mood of each song.”

A statement from the artist reads: “I feel like his walk is an exorcism of my body’s positioning in the city landscape, reclaiming it anew and as well as the album’s creation helps heal a wound that I decided not to keep scratching and start taking care of.”

Soma means “body” in Greek, and the press release for the album reads: “Look closely and you can find all sorts of DNA microarrays on the body’s skin—Bristol voices, Detroit electro hums, the amen break, the all-encompassing dub haze—but, as with all palimpsests, they are simultaneously one and a multitude. The body lives, its prostheses live.”

The prolific JGD project remains an exercise of style “focusing on a counterfactual historical approach of dub music, stripped down to its basic drum/bass/vox/effects form.” The 14-track sophomore LP is a wiley excursion in tripped out sound.

JGD featured in #17 issue of zweikommasieben with an original comic strip illustration charting the adventures of a Greek record store clerk in the dub continuum. He catches the attention of Bokeh Edwards and “Gizmo The Blue” of Berceuse Heroique, while developing a signature style of slowed down dancehall which would become known as “Glacial Dancehall” the follow up edition is “to be continued.”