The three tracks “The Wrong Frame,” “Apple, Sliced,” and “Dots On Nails” help form a narrative for the 12-minute video, directed by Panos Kostouros and starring Foivos Papadopoulos, both Athenian friends of Dimitirs Papadatos aka Jay Glass Dubs. Inspired by a traumatic relationship and a familiar walking route, the video is intended as a “cathartic walk in locked-in Athens via three different single shots that represent the mood of each song.”
A statement from the artist reads: “I feel like his walk is an exorcism of my body’s positioning in the city landscape, reclaiming it anew and as well as the album’s creation helps heal a wound that I decided not to keep scratching and start taking care of.”
Soma means “body” in Greek, and the press release for the album reads: “Look closely and you can find all sorts of DNA microarrays on the body’s skin—Bristol voices, Detroit electro hums, the amen break, the all-encompassing dub haze—but, as with all palimpsests, they are simultaneously one and a multitude. The body lives, its prostheses live.”
The prolific JGD project remains an exercise of style “focusing on a counterfactual historical approach of dub music, stripped down to its basic drum/bass/vox/effects form.” The 14-track sophomore LP is a wiley excursion in tripped out sound.
JGD featured in #17 issue of zweikommasieben with an original comic strip illustration charting the adventures of a Greek record store clerk in the dub continuum. He catches the attention of Bokeh Edwards and “Gizmo The Blue” of Berceuse Heroique, while developing a signature style of slowed down dancehall which would become known as “Glacial Dancehall” the follow up edition is “to be continued.”