Brain Damage (dub band)


Brain Damage is a French Dub band, from Saint-Etienne. The band was founded in 1999 by Martin Nathan and bass player Raphael Talis. It is considered one of the pioneering dub bands in France.
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History

In the early 2000, Brain Damage experimented their first international collaborations in London with Dub specialists like The Disciples, Alpha and Omega, Zion Train or with the MC Tena Stelin. Their works based on Spoken word and Dub Poetry led them to include numerous voices in their tracks, like Black Sifichi and many others afterwards.
From 2011 on, with the departure of Raphael for other projects, Brain Damage was to be composed solely of its frontman, Martin Nathan.
In 2015 and 2016 the band released two albums based on collaborations with Jamaican artists Horace Andy, Winston Mc Anuff, Kiddus I, Willi Williams and Ras Michael.
In 2017, Martin's first collaboration with Harrison Stafford, leader of Groundation, gave birth to the album Liberation Time.
In 2021 Brain Damage produced Brain Damage meets Big Youth-Beyond the Blue, with Big Youth.
In 2023 Groundation meets Brain Damage-Dreaming From An Iron Gate, a second major collaboration with Harrison Stafford''.''

Discography

EPs

Bipolar Disorder – 1999

Studio albums

Always greener – 2002Ashes to ashes / Dub to dub – 2004Spoken dub manifesto vol.1 – 2006Short Cuts – 2008Burning before Sunset – 2010Burning before sunset featuring Black Sifichi – 2010High Damage by High Tone meets Brain Damage – 2012What you gonna do? – 2012Empire Soldiers by Brain Damage meets Vibronics – 2013Walk The Walk – 2015Talk The Talk – 2016Liberation Times by Brain Damage meets Harrison Stafford – 2017Ya no mas ! – 2018Beyond the Blue by Brain Damage meets Big Youth – 2021Dreaming From an Iron Gate by Groundation meets Brain Damage – 2023

Live albums

Short Cuts Live – 2009Empire Soldiers Live – 2015