Tuesday, November 29, 2011
LIFETONES
For A Reason, 1983.
Charles Bullen, former guitarist of the late 70s British post-punk band This Heat releases his solo project.
An experimental album mixing dub, complexed rhythms, hypnotism and weird melodies.
Lyrically amazing. Great sounds that could have been released yesterday.
Friday, November 11, 2011
NATIVE
'Rockstone' Native's Adventures With Lee Perry At The Black Ark September 1977.
Deep roots garage rock style, haunting and psychedelic.
Wayne Jobson, the creative force behind Native, explains how this album come to be:
“One night in August 1977 Boris Gardiner took me on a trip to see Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry at his Black Ark Studio in the Washington Gardens section of Kingston. The Black Ark was like a medieval space station with Scratch at the controls voicing the U.K. artist Robert Palmer. I watched in amazement as Scratch drove the mixing board like a Formula One racing car and extracted his mystical sound. Paul McCartney had been in the week before to work with Scratch on the little four track machine so you can be sure that it was the MAN and not the machine that was creating the magic here! After the session I got up enough courage to tell Scratch that I had some songs to play for him on my acoustic guitar. He listened and then declared 'I want to work with you because you are an Arawak Indian!' I assured him that I was an Arawak Indian (of course I am not) and he said to come back in a few days to record.”
FRESH MAGGOTS
Fresh Maggots, 1971.
Melodic folk with blasts of fuzz guitar. Its hard to believe that its just two nineteen year old lads from Warwickshire, England. This is a gem full of solid songs which unfortunately disappeared into obscurity after its release. The album has acoustic guitar throughout and a variety of instruments dotted around which just fit in perfectly with the vocals. There are no drums here but it really rocks.
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