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01. Brenda Ray - Star Light
02. Brenda Ray - D-I-Z-Z-E-E
03. Brenda Ray - Sweet Romance
04. Brenda Ray - Sweet Sweet Wine
05. Brenda Ray - Dreamin
06. Brenda Ray - Lend A Helping Hand
07. Brenda Ray - Hearts Entwine
08. Brenda Ray - Swirlin Hearts
09. Brenda Ray - Another Dream
10. Brenda Ray - Perfect Choice
11. Brenda Ray - Please Be Mine Tonight
12. Brenda Ray - Everybody's Talking
13. Brenda Ray - Love's To Share
14. Brenda Ray - Keep On Rollin
15. Brenda Ray - Rollin Down
16. Brenda Ray - Sweet Sweet Wine - Part 2
17. Brenda Ray - Vision - Dreamin
ARTIST
TITLE
Walatta
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
EM 1071CD EM 1071CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/10/2007

2012 repress. 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.