Browse by Artist: PERRY, LEE

Artist:	PERRY, LEE
Title:	Africa's Blood
Label:	EARMARK (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	EAR 43007LP

"By the time Africa's Blood was first released in 1971, producer, Lee 'Scratch' Perry was firmly established as an innovator without equal in Jamaican Music. The album further highlighted his unique talent, providing an ideal opportunity to showcase some of the best of his latest productions. Of the material featured, of special note are instrumental versions of Bunny Wailer's 'Dreamland', Eric Donaldson's 1971 Festival Song winner, 'Cherry Oh Baby' ('Well Dread'), Junior Byles 'Poor Chubby' ('Long Sentence') and Slim Smith's interpretation of The Temptations' 'My Girl'. The two vocal offerings are provided by Dave Barker ('Do Your Thing') and Winston Jarrett & The Flames, who cut the excellent, 'Isn't It Wrong' under the alias of The Hurricanes, while Winston 'Prince' Thompson (who later gained fame under the guise of Dr. Alimantado) provides the only DJ cut on the album, toasting over the Junior Byles classic, 'PIace Called Africa'. These, along with further instrumentals, 'Not Guilty', 'Cool And Easy', 'Sawdust', 'Go Slow', 'Bad Luck' are typical of Perry's distinctive productions from the period and help make up what is an essential collection of his early work. 180 gram HQ vinyl with PVC audiophile dustsleeve."

Artist:	PERRY, LEE
Title:	Cloak and Dagger
Label:	EARMARK (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	EAR 43031LP

"1973's Cloak & Dagger represents one of the most brilliant intuitions by the genius that is Lee Perry: the creation of an innovative approach to reggae with the so-called proto-dub or version feature -- the backing track of a song without the vocal track to allow the re-interpretation of the song itself. This sort of dub-philosophy greatly winds up through the grooves of this record and reaches the top with versions like 'Side Gate', 'Iron Side' and 'Jungle Lion'. This release contains 3 bonus tracks."

Artist:	PERRY, LEE
Title:	Skanking With The Upsetter
Label:	JAMAICAN RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	JR 004CD

"Jamaican Recordings follow up their King Tubby, Augustus Pablo and Revolutionaries sets with a dub outing from Lee Perry. Skanking With The Upsetter subtitled 'Rare Dubs 1971-1974' features 14 previously unreleased dubs and instrumentals. Included are previously unavailable versions of Leo Grahams 'Three Blind Mice', The Gatherers 'Start Over' and The Stingers 'Forward Up'. Available on Heavyweight 180 gram vinyl and CD with 2 bonus tracks."

Artist:	PERRY, LEE
Title:	Born In The Sky
Label:	MOTION (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	FAST 006CD

"Awesome Lee Perry album compiled by Perry biographer Dave Katz and licensed from Lee Perry himself. All tracks from 1969-1975, a third of the tracks were mastered from Perry's recently unearthed original 1/4" tapes and include 9 previously unreleased cuts, including 4 previously unreleased songs and five previously released alternate takes. The rest of the tracks have never appeared on CD before and have been mastered from rare vinyl singles. CD contains 20 page booklet by Perry biographer Dave Katz, detailed sleeve notes, track by track breakdown and unseen photos. CD contains one bonus track."

Artist:	PERRY, LEE
Title:	Divine Madness - Definitely
Label:	PRESSURE SOUNDS (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	PS 032CD

"Pressure Sounds will release their 3rd album by legendary Jamaican Producer Lee Perry. Following on from the other two highly successful releases Voodooism and Produced and Directed By, Divine Madness -Definitely is probably the strongest of the three and is a 2 CD package with one CD devoted to an hours worth of music and the 2nd CD is a 25 minute interview with 'Scratch' himself. The interviews with Steve Barker and Roger Eagle took place in the early 80's and 'Scratch' is as at his most witty, lucid and entertaining, talking about everything from his time at Studio One to his work with Bob Marley. The CD containing the music has many musical highlights and all the 'tunes' are rare collectors items. 'Woman and Money' by Denzil Dennis dates from early '73 and is a splendid boogie-woogie style piano excursion with soulful vocals. Junior Byles's track "Africa We Are Going Home' is as rare as hens teeth and features one of Jamaica's most talented vocalists. Milton Henry, The Viceroys, Eric Donaldson, Augustus Pablo and Jimmy Riley all have some of their finest tracks on this album. The double vinyl will appear in a luxury gatefold sleeve -- the interview is as well included."

Artist:	PERRY, LEE
Title:	Dub Around The World
Label:	SPRINT RECORDS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SFLP 005

"Subtitled 'The Upsetter Meets The Upsetress In Dub Around The World.' This release contains 12 recordings, two thirds of which are the result of Perry's handiwork. A couple of early 70's cuts and few Black Ark mid 70's recordings. Worth checking out is a cut of Augustus Pablo's 'Java', known here as 'Dub It In Trinidad And Tobago'. The rest of the album is made up of a selection of early 80's bass 'n' drum work-outs from an unknown origin, but are selected here by Lee's son, Omar Perry and the Upsetress who both compiled this album."

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