Release Date: 12 July 2019
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Absolute
£18.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS RED GOLD GREEN & BLUE Limited Vinyl 2LP Set
Overview:
The conceptual adventure that became a compilation, RED GOLD GREEN & BLUE calls on the black cream of Jamaican artistry, generations of talent spanning decades. Completing a circle, the classic American blues songs performed here, bring out an intriguing tonality in this record's top-notch selection of already flavour-ful voices, familiar and brand new. This modern anthology throws down a creative challenge: how will today's great Jamaican artists, themselves descendants of captured Africans, reinterpret African-American blues songs written and sung by artists who are effectively their own long-lost family? To answer this question, here's the first release on a new label, TROJAN JAMAICA. Co-founders Zak Starkey and his partner, musician/producer Sshh Liguz, with their island allies, are taking the veteran UK reggae imprint and hurtling it headlong into the future. These voices help make the island great. This disc is a missing link that helps to try and bind a fractured African diaspora. Each of the idiosyncratic tracks reborn here represents the sort of pan-African vision that fired Marcus Garvey, Bob Marley, Angela Davis. Wherever they came from, stolen Africans had no control over where the slaveships would make them disembark. But whether it was New Orleans or Kingston, Jamaica, the music they brought with them would survive, against all odds, evolve, elevate and actually change global culture. This record is in some measure a tribute to their resilience and brilliance.
Featured Tracks:
1. MYKAL ROSE – I Put A Spell On You
2. ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE – Bring It On Home
3. FREDDIE MCGREGOR – Come On In My Kitchen
4. PHYLEA CARLEY – Baby Please Don't Go
5. BIG YOUTH – Temperature
6. SSHH & ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE – Wang Dang Doodle / Oh Well
7. MYKAL ROSE – 44 Blues
8. TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS – Man Of The World
9. MYKAL ROSE – Bad Luck Shadow
10. ANDREW TOSH – Don't Go No Further
11. ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE – Just Your Fool
12. BIG YOUTH – Gunslinger
13. KIDDUS I – Sun Is Shining
Release Date: 28 June 2019
Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: Rhino
£129.99
Release Date: 14 June 2019
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Decca
£19.99
Release Date: 14 June 2019
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Death Waltz Recording Co
£44.99
Release Date: 31 May 2019
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: UMC
£16.99
