Rising Above Bedlam Explained

Rising Above Bedlam (On an Elevated Section of Motorway)
Type:	Studio album
Cover:	Rising Above Bedlam.jpg
Released:	30 September 1991
Recorded:	1991
Studio:	Oval Studios, Alaska Studios, Greenhouse Studio, London
Genre:	World Music
Label:	Oval Records,
Producer:	Invaders of the Heart
Prev Title:	Without Judgement
Prev Year:	1989
Next Title:	Take Me to God
Next Year:	1994

Rising Above Bedlam is an album by Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart, released by Oval Records in 1991.^{[1] [2]}

The album was a shortlisted nominee for the 1992 Mercury Prize.^[3]

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "ambitious" and "a refreshing departure from some of the flat, occasionally tedious and self-conscious material [Wobble] lobbed out in the '80s."^[1] The Rough Guide To Rock praised "Visions of You" and "Bomba," writing that they made the album "worthwhile."^[4]

Personnel

• Jah Wobble - bass, vocals, keyboards, drum programming, timbales
• Justin Adams - electric guitar, Spanish guitar, Arabic percussion, saz, vocals
• Mark Ferda - keyboards, drum programming, sampler, effects
• Natacha Atlas - vocals
• Sinéad O'Connor - vocals

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jah Wobble . Trouser Press . 15 July 2020.
2. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, concise 5th edition, pub. Omnibus Press July 2007, p736.
3. Web site: Rocklist.net...Mercury/Nationwide Music Prize. RockListMusic.co.UK. 12 March 2011.
4. Book: The Rough Guide to Rock . 1999 . Rough Guides Ltd. . 1097.