On “The Afrodub Experience” Umberto Echo takes us on a journey across four continents, exploring 50 years of Afro-Caribbean music history.

On his new album ‘The Afrodub Experience,’ multi-instrumentalist and producer Umberto Echo takes us on a journey through space and time across four continents, exploring 50 years of Afro-Caribbean music history with numerous collaborators.
The starting point and inspiration is the Afrobeat of the 1970s, which Umberto discovered through original musicians from Fela Kuti’s ‘Africa 70’ band in the Berlin project ‘Afrobeat Academy’ in the late 2000s, and which he began to fuse with dub and reggae. Originally intended as Umberto’s second album, the project continually takes new twists and turns, becoming a journey you might not want to end. 18 years later, ‘The Afrobeat Experience’ is now released as Umberto Echo’s 12th album.
Similar to how dub emerged from the roots reggae of the 1970s, Umberto appro