One-sided promo.
Gorgeous…and backed with rudeboy anthem A Man Of Chances.
Two counts of murder.
‘You think you can hold me down, you think you can tie me down… I’m a man for chances.’
Poignantly-reflective next version of Horace’s Jah Is The One rhythm (from the Pure Ranking set), with MR’s unmistakable moves, and dub.
Fifty feet of wire, miked at both ends, passing through the poles of a large magnet, set vibrating four times at four different frequencies, in complex, evocative, ethereal chords.
Dark, hypnotic, tripping nyabinghi from 1974.
Led by Ras Michael over four extended excursions, the music is organic, sublime and expansive, grounation-drums and bass heavy (with no rhythm guitar, rather Willie Lindo brilliantly improvising a kind of dazed, harmolodic blues).
Lloyd Charmers and Federal engineer George Raymond stayed up all night after the session, to mix the recording, opening out the enraptured mood into echoing space, adding sparse, startling effects to the keyboards.
At no cost to its deep spirituality, this is the closest reggae comes to psychedelia.
The sublime, essential collaboration of Lloyd Charmers, Ras Michael, Willie Lindo and co, in 1974; plus an entire disc surveying Charmers’ dub excursions around this time, nearly all new to CD.
Jennifer Hylton’s early-nineties r’n'b-tipped torpedo, recorded by Lloyd Pickout Dennis at Dynamic, with the Firehouse Crew.
Her second and third Motown LPs, from 1962 and 1963 — irresistible, timeless pop — making her its biggest star. In authentic mono for the first time on CD, using fresh transfers of the original master tapes.
Unmistakably sexy, classy SC over fun, rickety island disco produced by Franklyn Waul — from the Taxi Gang — in 1988.