Sachem in Salem

Description

Zenzile's first album, following the EP Dub Promozione, Sachem in Salem, when it was released in March 1999, was a sensation in the French underground music scene. When it came out, the French dub scene was still in its infancy, and it's no exaggeration to say that the album was one of its cornerstones. This is true, albeit in a different genre, as with High Tone's "Opus Incertum" or Improvisators Dub meets The Disciples' "Dub and Mixture," both released the following year. What would later be known as the French live dub scene, so distinctive and promising, was born at this moment, at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is here that the band's musical identity was forged, serving as the foundation for all their future albums. It also provides a definition (among others) of live dub, which was now beginning to be considered a musical style in its own right, no longer just a subgenre of reggae.