Keyboards, Vocals & Percussion- Pierre "Reggae Maestro" Arnau
Guitar & Vocals- Strings
Drums- Joe "Grind" Fagan
Strings is Endorsed by Hutchins Guitars
Influences
Bob Marley and the Wailers, Steel Pulse, Aswad, Israel Vibration, Culture, Fab 5, Roots Radics, Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones, Black Uhuru, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Yellowman, Gladiators, Mighty Diamonds, Santana.
Watch 4-D VIDEOS
On Youtube channel and Google Video feed below.
Already dubbed as "South Florida reggae legends" by the Miami Herald, Fourth Dimension launched off 2008 with a massive New Years concert with UK's 1 reggae act, Steel Pulse. Their track record only continued to escalate as they headlined Miami, Florida’s famous "15th Annual Caribbean Festival"(previously known as the Bob Marley Fest), which was founded and is still run by Bob Marley's family. Following this event they played the role of supporting act for international reggae stars Maxi Priest and Toots and The Maytals.
In the past they have performed at the world-acclaimed “Reggae Sunsplash”, toured internationally with Jamaican dancehall star, Mr.Vegas and shared the stage with artists such as Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, UB40, Mos Def, James Brown, John Mayer and many others.
On may 10 they released their 15 track album Invazion for which they teamed up with Karl Pitterson, the legend who recorded and mixed Time Magazine’s “The Best Album of the 20th Century”, Bob Marley and The Wailer’s Exodus Album, and Steel Pulse’s first three albums. Immersed in Pitterson’s studio in South Miami Florida non-stop for over 4 month period, the innovative pairing introduced some new and surprising elements into the band's established reggae sound. Pitterson has put his mark on other records of such artists as Mick Jagger, Peter Tosh, Steel Pulse, The Skatalites, Robert Palmer and Grace Jones and brought that same vibe and passion to Fourth Dimension’s new album, Invazion.
As rastafarian vocalist/bassist Jah Steve divulges, "In a sense we were trying to create a progressive reggae album while keeping the authentic reggae sound. This concept is precisely why we chose Karl Pitterson to help us with our vision. On the album we feature our new super-dynamic drummer Joe “Grind” Fagan and special guest grammy-nominee drummer, Bradley Brown from Sizzla. When writing songs for this album we set out to keep a positive yet rebellious message while staying innovative and fresh..we didn’t want the album to sound like any other reggae album”
Jah Steve has been involved in the reggae scene since an early age and has backed up Jamaican “Studio 1” greats such as Derrick Morgan. He names Wailer's bassist Aston "Familyman" and Eric Clapton as his musical role models.
Drummer Joseph "Grind" Fagan was born from Jamaican parents who have instilled the culture in him. He began playing the drums at the age of five and has been inspired by Dennis Chambers, Carlton Barret and Dave Weckle. Joseph studied with Jonathan Joseph, Russ Miller and attended Musicians Institute of Hollywood California. Joseph has toured with Lady Saw, John Holt and many other R&B and reggae acts.
Guitarist and vocalist Strings, who was recently endorsed by Hutchins Guitars (UK guitar company who endorses Saliva and UK’s The Kooks) says, “It was quite an honor recording some songs on Bob Marley’s personal stage guitar amplifier a 1960’s Fender Twin. We used several different guitars and guitar amps from vintage to newer models in order to achieve different tonalities.
The lyrics on Invazion reflects themes such as the band’s assurance in that positivity and humanitarian beliefs are still alive. With lyrics on the title track that chat, “If we all could keep on giving the love that we have, Lets reach a new land”. And in Muertos En Vida, one of the two spanish tracks on the album Pierre Arnau Keyboards/Vocals asks, “What kind of seeds must we plant to see this world grow?”.
Pierre, who had years of classical piano training before moving to the keyboards, relates, “reggae music is like medicine, people come to our shows and tell us they are off their medication and its because we helped them with our music”. The music on the album Invazion was created on the concept of elevating the spirit, body and soul through word-sound-power, it’s what we believe the album was meant to be but it is really up to the listeners to interpret it in their own way.”
Fourth Dimension succeeds on being revolutionary and radical on this album as well. With tracks like Too Little Too Late, a song criticizing the government for their lack of assistance on the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans the chorus sings “They saw the water was risin’, What they did seems like nuthin’, We saw the innocent dyin’, Thought someone would do something”.
FOURTH DIMENSION will take you on an innovative musical journey while
breaking all the rules of the space time-continuum. It is an experience you do
not want to miss.
This groundbreaking quartet has played alongside such legendary artists as Damian "Jr.
Gong" Marley, Toots and the Maytals, Maxi Priest, Mos Def, Julian Marley,
Stephen "Ragga" Marley, Mother Cedella Marley, Kymani Marley, Steel
Pulse, Third World, UB40, Toots and the Maytals, Maxi Priest, Culture, Lucky
Dube, Bunny Wailer, Marcia Griffiths, Yellowman, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Shaggy,
James Brown, John Mayer, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Beach Boys, The Wailers,
Inner Circle, George Clinton, Capleton, Mr. Vegas, Luciano, Freddie McGregor, Burning Spear,
Yami Bolo, Uncle Kracker, Russel Malone and Diana King.
For Rates and Booking Information
Hypercube Records/Management & Bookings
Carlos Calderon
Phone (954) 599-4272
Fax (610) 535-7887
or E-mail: Bookings@4thdimension.org
Fan Submitted Video(Thanks Vanilla) Fourth Dimension
holy shit!!! I can't believe you guys are finally coming to Mobile! I will so be @ HopJacks Sat night! I miss the hell out of you guys! love ya! Alabama
How D Do! I just today re did my profile and started a lil store to sell posters n stuff. Im working on a new painting as well and posted it in my blog. What ya think?
Like a prism, the triangular "edge of a lens bends blue light more than red light." "Blue light is therefore brought to a focus closer to the lens than red light resulting" in a color "distortion" called CHROMATIC ABERRATION. Mirrors do not exhibit chromatic aberration.
Walking Beats
The doppler effect is dramatically demonstrated at very slow (walking) velocities. The person walks between two loudspeakers which are producing notes which are slightly different (by 1 Hz). The “envelope" (or number of beats per second) of the sound can be made to increase or decrease in frequency by walking toward one or the other of the speakers http://www.exploratorium.edu/xref/phenomena/coherence.html COHERENCE Coherence is a property of waves describing how well they line up with each other in time and space. Two sources are coherent if their waves line up perfectly. For this to happen, the waves must have the same wavelength (and hence frequency). Since waves are often emitted in bursts that are finite in length, the wave packets must also line up to be perfectly coherent.
The two wave packets above are partial coherent since the waves line up, but the packets are slightly out of alignment. Interference would be incomplete between them
