Japanese flower arrangements, candles and giant orchids make the stage look more like an oriental horticultural exhibition than a concert venue. Taiko drums nestle alongside a tiny lady in full traditional costume playing a koto, which looks like a cross between a zither and a log. It's hard to remember that Jah Wobble – the serene presence around whom this wonderful audio-visual spectacular revolves – was once one of punk's most violent characters, co-founder of John Lydon's Public Image Limited, a London underground announce; he now lives in the not exactly oriental Stockport.

After a musical life working with everyone from Tibetan musicians to Brian Eno, the influential bass master's latest adventure involves fusing dub with Japanese ritualistic Shinto music. Hichiriki flute flies hypnotically over Can-like drumming. Wobble's basslines underpin all his explorations – they are so omnipresent and melodic you can imagine someone singing them, like songs.

The show is Wobble's most esoteric and yet his most accessible. The superb ensemble of eastern and western musicians find room for storming jazz-punk, blues harmonica, Wobble's 1990s hit Visions of You and sublime female-sung dub reworkings of Dawn Penn's No, No, No and Alton Ellis's lovers rock I'm Still In Love With You. However astonishing, Wobble's musical travels avoid pretension, grounded by the Trilby-hatted Cockney geezer's mischievous, surreal humour. His highly animated percussionist "had a hip replacement yesterday". Joji Hirota, Wobble's great taiko master, is "a party animal. He crashed his car and now it's in the scrapyard." As the stage fills with bubbles, and beautiful Shinto melodies emit a hazy, almost mystical calm, the bassman approaches the mic as if to announce something of great spiritual significance. "Football, eh. What a load of bollocks."