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Artist:
RAY, BRENDA
Title:
Walatta
Label:
EM RECORDS (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
EM 1071CD
Certainly the most unusual reggae album ever made.
Augustus Pablo
,
King Tubby
,
Asha Puthli
with
Ornette Coleman
,
Lonnie Liston Smith
and
Pharoah Sanders
-- very disturbing slices of psycho-dub/doo-wop/jazz-fusion/exotica music. Her breathy
Chordettes
meets
Susan Cadgan
vocals, multi-tracked whisperings about inter-galactic Bluebeat starlights over what sounds like a modulated cut of heavy rhythm.
Brenda Ray
will be familiar to observers of the Liverpool scene as part of the NAFFI organization through the '80s, also famed as
Brenda & The Beachballs
. Over the past years, together with cohort
Sir Freddie Viadukt
(aka
The Minister of Noise
), she has been aiding and abetting the reggae producer
Roy Cousins
, once of
The Royals
, in his program of remastering and reissuing selections from his Tamoki Wambesi imprint. Cousins suggested she record an album using original roots reggae tracks from original tapes. The whole album was overdubbed, played, recorded and mixed between 1995-2005 at NAFFI Studios. Everything was done by herself except the final mix-down with Sir Freddie. The cover photo has Brenda in a pose somewhere between
Pharoah Sanders
'
Thembi
and
Augustus Pablo
's
East of the River Nile
with a melodica pointed towards the water.
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