SPOTLIGHT STEVE CHANDRA SAVALE OF ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION

In 1990, a young guitarist called Steve Chandra Savale came across an advertisement in a newspaper which read ‘Black/Asian musicians required for experimental dub noise project.’ He was the only one to reply.

At the time, Savale had no inkling that he would go on to form part of a trailblazing collective, Asian Dub Foundation (ADF), which, along with significant fellow travellers such as Nitin Sawhney, Fun-Da-Mental, Talvin Singh and State of Bengal