JAH WOBBLE & JON KLEIN - ‘Automated Paradise’. Listen now
by The Experiment
JON KLEIN & JAH WOBBLE. Courtesy
Having initially combined forces to make the album 'Metal Box - Rebuilt In Dub’, released in 2021, Jah Wobble and Jon Klein have maintained their association both live and creating new music in the studio. This has resulted in ‘Automated Paradise’, their third album together but debut for Dimple Discs as a recording duo.
Jah Wobble (born John Wardle) is a renowned bass guitarist and vocalist from East London. He was the original bassist in Public Image Limited (PiL) in the late 1970s, but left the band in late 1980, a year after the release of the band’s second album, the iconic ‘Metal Box’.
He had begun developing a solo career before leaving PiL, formed Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heat in 1982, while the early ‘80s also saw him collaborate with Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of Can, The Edge of U2 and producer François Kevorkian. He has since worked with Ginger Baker, Björk, Brian Eno, Baaba Maal, Massive Attack, Sinéad O’Connor, Pharoah Sanders, LoneLady and his wife Zi Lan Liao (a Chinese guzheng player and harpist). He reunited with PiL guitarist Keith Levene in 2012 to record the album ‘Yin & Yang’ and perform a series of ‘Metal Box In Dub’ shows. Wobble’s well received autobiography, ‘Memoirs of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem’, was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2009 and reissued in expanded form as ‘Dark Luminosity’ by Faber & Faber in 2024.
Jon Klein is a guitarist and producer best known for being a member of Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1987 until 1994, a period that saw the release of the acclaimed albums ‘Peepshow’, ‘Superstition’ and ‘The Rapture’. He had originally been in the Bristol-based band Europeans before co-founding glam-goth act Specimen and relocating to London, where he was also involved with The Batcave nightclub.
Klein has recorded and played live with a wide variety of artists that include Talvin Singh, Sinéad O’Connor, Thomas Dolby and Shriekback, while his production company Ground Control has overseen recordings by the likes of David Devant and his Spirit Wife and Spanish chart toppers Fangoria.
