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Heavy Rain

by Lee "Scratch" Perry

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bruce2021 my first experience of lee scratch Perry was a longtime ago on no disco music programme I heard 'Dont blame it on I' and that was it hooked I was and he was everywhere on Irish TV promoting Guinness top man I could do with one now, scratch your genius music is a tonic for the soul. I'm loving 'here comes the warm dreads' not that you will read this scratch but thanks for sharing your music Favorite track: Here Come The Warm Dreads (ft Brian Eno).
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Peter Sladdin Hey the Master Speaks again, this is So FKing good,words fail me, just listen,learn and grow.
Will be on high rotation for a long time.♥️💛💚‼️💦💧🌦️
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Intro - Music Shall Echo 00:39
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Here Come The Warm Dreads (ft Brian Eno) 04:50
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Rattling Bones And Crowns 04:42
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4.
Mindworker 03:58
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Enlightened 04:12
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Hooligan Hank 00:59
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Crickets In Moonlight 03:52
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Space Craft 04:04
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Dreams Come True 03:27
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Above And Beyond 04:12
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11.
Heavy Rainford 04:32
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12.
Outro - Wisdom 00:18
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A dub companion to the critically-acclaimed Rainford album that sees the Upsetter and co-producer Adrian Sherwood radically re-version the original tapes with a host of guest musicians including Brian Eno and Vin Gordon.

If Rainford is 2019’s Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread then Heavy Rain is it’s Super Ape.

As well as highlighting the deft musicianship of the original backing band on the Rainford sessions (which include core On-U luminaries from Creation Rebel, Tackhead and Dub Syndicate) these re-works also invite some further players into the cosmic mix. Brian Eno makes an unexpected right channel entry into “Here Come The Warm Dreads”, a heavily processed sound system overhaul of Rainford highlight “Makumba Rock”, cheekily re-titled as a nod to Eno’s own debut solo album. This completes a circle started in 1981 with African Head Charge’s My Life In A Hole In The Ground similarly referencing the contemporary collaboration between Eno and David Byrne, and their “vision of a psychedelic Africa”.

Elsewhere, legendary trombonist Vin Gordon (one of the hornsmen on Bob Marley & The Wailers Exodus amongst many other classic sides) lends his distinctively woozy blowing to tracks such as “Rattling Bones And Crowns” (a late night flipside to “Kill Them Dreams Money Worshippers”) and “Crickets In Moonlight” (“Cricket In The Moon” refracted through some beautifully louche late summer heat haze lens). On the closest the album has to a title track, “Heavy Rainford” strips back the narrative from “Autobiography Of The Upsetter” to ride the rhythm with all sorts of mixing desk tricks, anchored by the killer “I Am The Upsetter” hook from LSK.

It’s important to note that it’s not all Rainford re-works though: “Dreams Come True” and “Above And Beyond” are Scratch and Sherwood originals, heard here for the first time and equally strong material for this purple patch in the career of an unstoppable Jamaican maverick and true musical pioneer.

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released December 6, 2019

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Lee "Scratch" Perry Geneva, Switzerland

A true titan amongst any self-respecting reggae fan - the man they call the Upsetter has worked with everyone from Bob Marley to Junior Murvin to The Congos to The Beastie Boys, and of course On-U Sound's own Adrian Sherwood. From the Black Ark to the Secret Laboratory he has spread his vision of paradise! ... more

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