Name: Heavy Rain
Brand: Lee Scratch Perry

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LP-ONU-145

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Black

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Black vinyl.

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-12-06

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Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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5060263722588

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

CD-ONU-145

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5060263722595

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Artist

Lee Scratch Perry

Genre US

Reggae / Dub

Label US

On-U Sound

Lee Scratch Perry is an American jazz pianist and composer, born on May 8, 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With a passion for music since childhood, he dedicated his life to playing the piano until 2018 when he faced two strokes that left him partially paralyzed. Despite this setback, Perry's talent and creativity continue to shine through.

Perry has made significant contributions to the music industry and is renowned for his own music publishing house. He is also recognized as the older brother of esteemed pianist and composer *Keith Jarrett* and singer-songwriter *Bobo Stenson*. His family's musical legacy runs deep.

With a style that resonates with fans worldwide, Lee Scratch Perry's work can be likened to artists such as Keith Jarrett Trio, Bobo Stenson Trio, Charlie Haden, Brad Mehldau, Tord Gustavsen Trio, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Gary Burton, Jan Garbarek, Brad Mehldau Trio, Ralph Towner, Charles Lloyd, Enrico Pieranunzi, Michel Petrucciani Abdullah Ibrahim Marcin Wasilewski Trio Chick Corea Jacky Terrasson Paolo Fresu Anat Fort Trio Carla Bley. Explore his captivating compositions and immerse yourself in his unique musical journey.

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 and 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 and 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.

Heavy Rain

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