Bruno Blum
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A singer and guitarist from Paris, France, Blum started his career at an early age as a punk bassist and music press writer/photographer and illustrator in London in 1977. He has since become a singer, a guitarist and a producer known mostly for his work in the reggae field. His media-acclaimed first solo album, <em>"Bruno Blum"</em> (New Rose 1990) already featured reggae tracks recorded with Ziggy Marley's musicians during a trip to Jamaica as a reporter. His successful <em>“The War Album”</em> (Rastafari 2001, reissued by 55/BMG France in 2003, also available as a Jamaican import lp on the Human Race label) featuring the Wailers with Blum, Big Youth, Buffalo Bill, Bob Marley and Haile Selassie I's voices, as well as his own 2001 <em>“Nuage d'Éthiopie”</em> album have established him as a truly original singer and songwriter, much appreciated for the quality and elegance of his work. His conception, production and central contribution (sound restoration, coordination, liner notes, design) to the ambitious reissue – and occasionally mixing - of plenty rare 1967-1972 Bob Marley recordings (ten JAD-55-EMI and BMG albums, plus a long box) also won him a solid reputation only challenged by his work as producer, re-arranger and guitarist on one track, and, on another, as a singer on the two classic Serge Gainsbourg reggae albums « Aux Armes Et Cætera » and « Mauvaises Nouvelles Des Etoiles » (Mercury-Universal 2003) featuring Jamaican dub remixes, Gainsbourg versions remixes as well as DJ versions (featuring Big Youth and Lone Ranger among others).
<p>In France Bruno Blum is also well known for his writings on music, which include the big seller <em>"Le Reggae"</em> (Librio 2001), a photo portfolio of Jamaica « Couleurs Reggae » (Tana 2001) and <em>"Bob Marley, le Reggae et les Rastas</em>" (Hors Collection 2004). Also a fine artist, Bruno Blum's latest album was recorded in Lagos, Nigeria with members of Fela Kuti's great afrobeat band (Amala & Blum, « Welikom 2 Lay-Gh-Us ! », Ménilmontant International/Fifty Five/BMG France 2003). </p>