Set Duration
1 x 45

Material
A new concept in live performance that cross from Roots, Reggae, Rocksteady, Soul, Ska, Dub to Electronic and live
sounds.

BIOGRAPHY

Charley Anderson: Founding member of The Selecter & the 2-Tone movement.

vocalist, bass player, composer and producer achieved platinum status with

"Too Much Pressure”. His solo career & collaborative projects including Century

Steel Band (UK/Ireland) The Vikings (Kenya), The South Sudan Project,

The Skalatones (Sweden), Surya.Lab (Italy), the Truth and Rights project

(Nicaragua) and Charley Anderson and Special Selected Friends (UK).

Charley returned home to Jamaica in 2011 to take part in the JCDC Festival

(Jamaica Cultural Development Commission) where he ranked in the Festival

Song top10 with his song and video production for "No More Pressure”.

Now back in Rome, in 2012 he reunited with Joe Casagrande, producer and

sound designer, to form Dubtonik, producing and performing a unique and

vibrant combination of live vocals and instruments with a rootical, subtronic

dub electronic sound mix, taking his music to a higher level of consciousness

creating another exciting chapter in his already varied and successful career.

Joe Casagrande: Active in music production since 1995, an eclectic Producer,

Sound Designer and Musician, Joe has collaborated with several artists,

musicians and video makers in audio-video installations, theatre performances,

and concerts. His performances include a Live set at the Amore 09 Rome for an

audience of 50,000, performing twice at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with

Opera Mutica (an electro-acoustic collective), an Ukranian Dance Theatre

Company (Nova Rasa) and Rose Bruford with Central Saint Martins College of

Art and Design, directed by Andra Cusumano. Joe also performed

recently at the 33 Festival, Oval House Theatre, London performing the

soundtrack for the show "Hidden”.

Joe has released and produced various tracks, with music ranging from Dance

to Ska and Reggae to Electronic Dub. Co-founder of the project Surya.lab, he

collaborate with "Concrete Records." Joe has been working with Charley Anderson

since the late 1990's and together they formed Dubtonik in 2012.

sounds. Charley & Joe create, record and produce in their own studio in Rome, Italy.

Dubtonik performed live throughout 2012 in the UK, Italy and Mombasa.