Kaly is formed in the year 1995 at Lyon, France.
In the begining, the name of the band was “Kaly Calipso” and plays dub roots with a strong reggae influence such as Jamaicans bands of the 70’s. The band then forges an important reputation in concerts (what will justify name of “Live”) during three years before to release a first demo, Orange Dub, in 1998.
The following year, the brass session stops its activity with the band, the singer moves to the samplers machine and a new drumer replaces Dom left to play with High Tone. Kaly starts to practise a novo dub style and a new maxi 4 tracks is published under the name 1.4Khz. Kaly Live Dub was born.
Electric Kool Aid, the 1st Cd album of the band is released in year 2000. The album attracts by its important choice of samples which will make the characteristic of this band.
Almost in the same time, Kaly Live Dub proposes another maxi with the Jamaican singer Rod Taylor. Follows two new years of live concerts through France.
Also Pilah, the guitar player, creates the collective Dub Addict Sound System to multiply the musical meetings and to diffuse dubplates like the old Jamaicans Sound-Systems.
In year 2003, an album and 3 maxis are published by the band.
Transcendent, hypnotic, nervy and intricate, their "Fragments" new album (2008 April) boasts complex musical structures; it's a psychedelicized, haunted urban sound revealing a taste for experimentation, a commitment to complete artistic freedom and a collective flair for improvisation."
"Having first made its name on the French Dub stage (which unlike the Jamaican or UK Dub, has always used live instruments) since 1995, a more mature version of Kaly Live Dub moves beyond its original music for a darker and more electronic sound.
