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'***** beautiful, deeply affecting... hard to beat as the year's most worthwhile reissue', The Guardian; 'magnificent... wonderfully austere', Time Out.
'*****' The Guardian, Time Out; ' utterly out of time', The Guardian; 'utterly contemporary', Time Out; 'utterly brilliant', The Independent On Sunday.
‘*****’, The Independent; 'a vibrancy and energy that make it impossible to sit still’, Metro; 'shines from Shina to Shina', The Beat; 'CD Of The Week... astonishing', Daily Telegraph; 'incendiary', The Observer.
'*****', The Independent; 'captivating... Q Recommends'; 'there is no end of exhilarating music on this beguiling album', The Sunday Times; 'full of heartstopping musical twists and turns', The Beat.
'superlative', Mojo; 'sensational', The Observer; 'hugely evocative and poignant', Daily Telegraph; '*****' The Times, Metro; 'sheer joy from start to finish', Sunday Telegraph.
The album debut of Charlotte Marionneau, with contributions from Kevin Shields and Hope Sandoval, amongst others: a dark comedy, intimate and uncanny, playful and compelling.
'This was directed at the way they were arresting and sentencing Rasta to mandatory 18 months for possession of a spliff while politicians' gunmen were walking the streets unmolested.'
With the Solid Foundation: Dan, Pablove Black, Benbow, Scully, Sowell. Recorded by Lee Perry, mixed by King Tubby. The flip is co-written by Fred Locks, performed by Twelve Tribes musicians including Albert Malawi.
The vibes and musical invention of Augustus Pablo course through these melodica, vocal and dub versions; and the EP's fourth track, Jah Foundation, is from his Rockers studio.
'I recorded for Randy's, then Joe Gibbs, Lee Perry, Channel One... at Rockers with Augustus Pablo, Burning Spear at the time of Hail HIM... These are some of my own records — deep roots reggae from the 1970s.'
With the Loose Lips MC in full flow, and complete with a Spinna house version. On percussion, Miguel Fuentes brings classic Philly vibes courtesy of the MFSB family.
'Tunde Williams blows from menthol-cool to incinerating on these wonderful vintage tracks' (Daily Telegraph).
Afrika 70, recorded in 1975, produced by Fela Kuti.
Afrika 70, recorded in 1975, produced by Fela Kuti.
Essential Afrika 70 recordings, produced by Fela Kuti.
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