If I liked vocals in reggae, Perfect Giddimani would definitely be one of my favorites. The guy's got it: Not only can he sing (meaning he hits the right notes and has a good phrasing and breathing technique) and DJ skills, but above all, he can also write fine lyrics and catchy hooks. Sure, he occasionally has fits of screaming, which you can easily overlook or ignore. Perfect Giddimani certainly demonstrates a good hand in his selection of producers and backing tracks—for example, from House of Riddim or Irie Vibrations.

This time Perfect Giddimani has chosen to collaborate with Victor Gallardo aka Sinky Beatz – a Spanish music producer and trained jazz musician who, according to his own statements, specializes in roots reggae and Dub He succeeds quite well and anyone can download his riddims for a reasonable price of 49 or 99 US$ via his Website Perfect Giddimani may have handled it this way for his current album "Sibusiso (Blessings)" – although it can be assumed that the collaboration goes deeper. Sinky Beatz also releases his riddims on various streaming platforms – which raises the question: why? Such monotonous instrumentals, smothered by soft keyboard carpets, are not necessarily appealing to the experienced listener and definitely fall into the category of background music. Last year's album "Dubphilia” – a pleasantly listening collection of fine DubTunes with catchy basslines and just the right amount of dynamics. What's real instrumentation and what's thanks to samples or AI remains to be seen; the album is certainly worth recommending – among other things, because the keyboard layers are used rather sparingly.
The same applies to the recently published “Sibusiso in Dub“ (Giddimani Records), the companion album to Perfect Giddimani's “Sibusiso (Blessings)“. Solidly produced by Sinky Beatz, it scores with first-class sound and wonderfully embedded DubEffects; they also didn't forget to leave many hooks in the mix. Only the overused bass sound effect could have been used more sparingly. We know it from the Mad Professor mixes, where it can be seen as his USP. However, the Professor never managed to integrate it into the mix as beautifully and perfectly as Sinky Beatz.
Is “Sibusiso in Dub“ also Roots-Dub At its best? No, but pretty close. A little less perfection might have done the album good – you soon get tired of too much beauty. Nevertheless, a thumbs up for this production... and every now and then I'm strongly tempted to give it a second thumbs up, too.