| When
you say "Lee Perry", many people
will be thinking about the mystic sounds
coming from the Black Ark studios.
Personally, I think about weird and crazy
things like the cover of his album "The
Battle Of Ammagideon" on which you can
see a skeleton representing "The Holy
Ghost" and more things that not really
attract me to check it out. Reading recent
interviews of the UPSETTER.net
WebSite in which he expresses
he dislikes dreads also didn't really make
me happy. He says:
"...............all I know
is that dreads are dangerous. Beware of
dreads! My baby was not born dread, so if
you are a dread, this is my message:
"beware of dreads". Because when
you knot up your head, you knot up your
brain. And those who knot up their brain are
fucking dangerous! So I am going to open up
some barber shops! Like Hare Krishna and
Santa Claus, I must invest my money in
barber shops instead of in reggae. How you
like that?"
Many have tried to imitate his Black Ark
sounds, but not with too much success. And
since the Black Ark studios are burned down
by Perry himself, there's not so much change
in another Black Ark era. So then here, then
there you'll see new re-release filled with
Lee Perry's Black Ark works.
Born In The Sky is certainly not just
another Black Ark re-release. For starters,
it covers a much wider period then just his
Black Ark era, you'll find tracks as old as
1969 on the disc so you can really check out
different stages of development in Lee
Perry's works. Second, 'Scratch' himself was
involved in this release as well and that's
not a thing you can say about every new Lee
Perry re-releases that we see. Third: Very
informative liner notes written by David
Katz, who also wrote the Lee Perry biography
"People Funny Boy". In short,
another historical release by Motion
Records.
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