In May 2021, the world lost musician, producer, composer and bandleader, Nick Page, aka Count Dubulah. Having worked on 200 plus albums and singles during his illustrious career, Nick Page was also working on a new collection of songs in his last few months. These last recordings of Nick Page with Dub Colossus, the project Nick founded in 2008, is being released through Real World X today as a special album from one of the founding fathers of the dub global music scene.
Dub Will Keep Us Together was co-produced by Nick Page, Toby Mills and Nick’s life partner, Cristina Moran aka Dubulette. It reflects on collective understanding as a resistance to the global forces shaping our societies, — a shared struggle for justice, bound together by love. Themes of unification, diversity and cultural inclusivity permeate the album’s vocals and timeless rhythms.
Original singers and musical heavyweights from Nick’s collective Dub Colossus feature on Dub Will Keep Up Together such as the incredible Ethiopian vocalist Mimi Zenebe, London saxophonist and flautist, Ben Somers, and British ground-breaking percussionist, Paul Chivers.
Great musical friends join bassist and percussionist Toby Mills and Nick Page on Dub Will Keep Us Together. These include global fusion giants Transglobal Underground’s Tim Whelan on keyboards, Hamid Mantu on drums.
Guest vocalist spots including leading London Latino vocalist Holly Holden, George Riley, Mykaell Riley and Amara & Ollie Mills. Dubulette also features as a guest vocalist and as co-producer with Nick Page and Toby Mills, says this of the project: “This is an eclectic album with some new members alongside some of the old ones. Mimi from Ethiopia is back, and like her country, it’s a compendium of different rhythms and influences, showing the path the band has taken since its beginnings in 2008. Dub Will Keep Us Together talks of the understanding of the collective as the counteraction to international events which are shaping our societies and minds, a fight for justice. Love will keep us together.”
Throughout his life, Nick Page was known for uniting musicians and singers from across the globe to produce timeless world-class global fusion. ‘Dub Will Keep Us Together’ is his last indelible musical stamp on the world, produced with friends from across great cultural divides to create music sans borders.
