From the mid-eighties, when he was lining up with Barry Guy and Paul Rutherford in Iskra 1903.
Spacious, detailed excursions layering violin, vocalese and electronics, Bach and a little dub.
Lovely, captivating stuff.

Please double-click through the label image for a sna of the B-side label, which is missing the print around its centre-hole.

Magnificent, hypnotically insurgent, boogie-down bubblers, with Sugar Minott at the mic, leading burnished horns and dapper, soulful backing vocals. Like a cross between Ain’t No Stopping Us Now and Armagideon.
Jerry Johnson heads out on the flip: a killer uptempo instrumental, with swirling brass over a pared-down, propulsive rhythm.

‘A deeply emotional, hypnotic fusion of gospel, psychedelic groove, folk, soulful funk, and
Afro-Latin rhythms. Recorded in Pointe-Noire, and originally released in the Republic of Congo in 1982, the album channels the raw spirit of 1980s Congo with vibrant multilingual vocals and rich, polyrhythmic textures.’
Fully remastered from the original tapes.