Chicago based drummer Ted Sirota, a twenty-five year veteran of the Chicago jazz scene, has fulfilled a life long dream and formed a dub reggae band called Ted Sirota’s Heavyweight Dub.
Inspired by the the great Jamaican backing bands of the era, Roots Radics, The Upsetters, The Aggrovators, Ted’s goal is to create a dub band that recreates this sound with as much authenticity as possible. To this end he’s rounded up a amazing group of Chicago musicians that includes Matt Lux (Iron and Wine, Isotope 217, Rob Mazurek) Dan Bitney (Tortoise), Dave Miller, and others.
Enter SCIENTIST
To find Mr. Brown Ted bravely navigated the word of dub on the internet, a formidable task in itself. Finding many half finished and outdated websites, dead ends, and far too many custom automotive accessory sites, Ted found a Dub mp3 site he believed was somehow affiliated with The Scientist. An inquiry though the most generic, “did-this-even-work?” contact form was sent and nothing happened for two months. Then he got a phone message, “This is Scientist. You can reach me at this number.” Ted called and a skeptical Scientist said ,”You send me some tracks. We’ll see….” Not 10 Minutes later Scientist called back, “Ted this music is GREAT.”
What’s transpired since has been nothing but a whirlwind of phone meetings, rehearsals, getting the Kickstarter going and on and on. So far we’ve raised 6k in two days. Currently, it’s the number one staff pick in the music category on the Kickstarter site itself. All of this energy is feeding back into the project, Scientist is getting inspired. Even as we speak developments are unfolding, contacts being made that could make this project even more special…updates to come.
The Kickstarter Project
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