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reissue - heavyweight, black vinyl

edition of 300 copies, coming with cooking tip!!! pressed on high quality black and purple wax (48 gr.).

2019 repress! reissue of this essential black uhuru - sly & robbie produced, extended mixes!

the story of the great roots reggae harmony trio black uhuru is one defined by many unexpected twists and turns. in its best known form, led by michael rose and with founding member duckie simpson and the black american female vocalist, puma jones, the group would enjoy the greatest popularity of any act in the wake of bob marley’s untimely death in 1981, but the origins of the group lay in the turbulent waterhouse district during the mid-1970s. duckie first formed the group as uhuru, the swahili word for unity, with garth dennis as lead singer and don carlos to join him in harmony, after cutting an adaptation of the impressions’ “romancing to the folk song” at dynamics, “time is on our side” at randy’s for clive chin, and “slow coach” for raymond “benno” anderson, dennis drifted into the wailing souls and don carlos went solo, leading duckie to recruit rising waterhouse vocalist michael “tony” rose as lead singer, and errol nelson from the jays for harmony. their debut album, love crisis, was produced, voiced and mixed at king tubby’s studio by prince jammy and remains and outstanding example of jammy’s roots reggae production phase. the song “hard ground” vamps on a similar theme to marley’s “talking blues”: rose sings of a life of everyday hardship, with destitution and homelessness the pervading factors. on the extended dub portion and dub the instrumental cuts that follow the alternate vocal take of this enthralling 12-inch ep, you can hear the non-standard instrumentation that helps make the work so innovative, with winston wright’s harpsichord melody emphasising the hopelessness of rose’s emotive lyrics, the commanding rhythm and understated bass and guitar from robbie shakespeare and chinna smith completing the picture.

der lang vergriffene longplayer von 1981 als vinyl-wiederveröffentlichung! dieses legendäre album ist ein arte muss für jede ernsthafte black uhuru lp sammlung - die musik wurde im harry j studio mit den besten musikern jamaikas aufgenommen, und die gesangsspuren im king tubbys studio sowie der finale mix von produzent prince jammy realisiert!

double vinyl compilation of reggae classics, curated by arte.

all the great reggae classics by the reggae masters in a nice 3lp vinylbox.

limited and numbered edition of 2000 copies on coloured 180 gram double vinyl (1x yellow / 1x green).

double vinyl compilation of finest reggae including bob marley, jimmy cliff, lee scratch perry and many more!

the old school collection is back with a new volume, dedicated to classic reggae gems.

a double vinyl compilation of the most frequently sampled reggae classics.

9 afrobeat gems on 180 gram vinyl.

a great collection of reggae classics on double vinyl.

a collection of hits from bob marley, that didn’t became mainstream - plus tributes on side b.

sly & robbie present a collection of 12 reggae masterpieces on vinyl lp.

14 classics by the reggae masters.

hochwertig produzierte lp-kompilation für anspruchsvolle musikliebhaber.