Wayne Jarrett - Inner Circle

Wayne Jarrett is probably best known for his contributions to the wackies label (the LP 'Bubble Up', and a couple of singles )
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Inner Circle is one of his later albums (1984). Released on the to me unknown New York based label 'Ashantites'

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black ark players - black ark in dub (1980)

This collection of tracks is about 50% Black Ark, 50% bogus. Dubious titles cast doubt on their validity eg) "Rasta Man" is a butchered version of "Open The Gate", "Loving" is a dub of George Faith's "Guide Line" with weirdo effects thrown in" And I guess track 1 called, 'Jah' is a production from king tubby's studio.



















Originally released by Starlight records in 1980. It is accurately attributed, not to Lee Perry, since he was by this time temporarily out of business, and not to the Upsetters, but to the "Black Ark Players" The cover gives production credits to Aisha Morrison ( Perry's ex wife ), who happens to possess a substantial collection of Perry's recordings.

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various 12" singles (produced by Lee Perry )

A) Carlton Jackson - history
B) Junior Delgado - sons of slaves

A) Raphel green & dr. Alimentado - rasta train
B) Hugo Blackwood & dr. Alimentado - reggae music

A) Leroy Sibbles - garden of life
B) Leroy Sibbles - Jah Far I on a Pinnacle

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Congo Ashanti Roy

Roydell Johnson (a.k.a. Congo Ashanti Roy), a native of Hanover, Jamaica, grew up singing spirituals at home and cut his teeth as a member of Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus. More importantly, Ashanti Roy attended school with Lee Perry, the start of a relationship that would lead to Perry producing him in later years. A chance meeting led to Ashanti Roy and Cedric Myton working together under the name The Congos, and hooking up with such major musical talents as Sly Dunbar and Ernest Ranglin.

Leaving Jamaica for the UK following a less creatively successful period, Ashanti Roy was brought to On-U Sound by his friend Mikey Dread in the early 1980s; both subsequently becoming contemporary contributors to the Singers And Players' family. Like a lot of other reggae artists of the time who had been the victims of brief flirtations with major labels, Ashanti Roy was looking for work and a deal.

Aware of the growing reputation of On-U Sound, he arrived at Southern Studios with several great tunes that were to become On-U conscious classics, including "African Blood" and "Breaking Down the Pressure", the latter undoubtedly the tougher tune and probably also superior in that the studio production from Adrian Sherwood is him at his crazed best. In 1984, in another major collaboration, Ashanti Roy also drafted in Sherwood to engineer and/or mix most of his solo album 'Level Vibes', released on Sonic Boom Records.



















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akabu

In 1981 a group of seven female musicians formed a band called African Woman. They were Shelomi Coke, Diane White, Caroline Williams, Paulette Coke, Valerie Skeete, Barbara Grossett and Vyris Edghill. Their debut album 'African Woman Abroad' was released in 1982.


















During the late 80s and early 90s lead vocalists Valerie and Vyris frequently provided backing vocals to On-U Sound releases and acts of the period, especially Bim Sherman, Dub Syndicate and Gary Clail.They now called themself 'Akabu' The long and successful collaboration with On-U sound culminated in Akabu's 1995 'Warrior Queen' album (ON-U LP71), co-produced with Adrian Sherwood, turning out to be the last studio album of the original line-up, though many live shows followed.

trivia:
*only 1000 copies of 'African Woman Abroad' where pressed.
*'African Woman Abroad' has been Mixed by Mad Professor.
*Vyris Edghill passed away in July 2002.

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Martha Velez - "Escape from Babylon"

Martha velez a country artist from origin recorded one album at the tuff gong studio(1976).Producer was bob Marley.

from an interview with martha Velez:

"We did it in the American way of sitting down and hammering out ideas, lyrics and music ideas, hooks etc"

the sad thing is that most tracks are butchered versions from well known Marley tracks. It's a bogus album, but nevertheless interesting to hear. Back in the days it had a limited release, and after that, It has never been re-released , even in vinyl, and certainly has never been released on CD or other digital format, and that doesn't surprise me at all.....

tracklisting:

1) Money Man
2) There You Are
3) Wild Bird
4) Disco Night
5) Bend Down Low
6) Happiness
7) Come On In
8) Get Up Stand Up

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creation rebel & new age steppers - Threat To Creation

Originally issued by On-U Sound in 1981. "Creation Rebel were the original On-U Sound collective. Threat To Creation is the first of Cherry Red's collaborations with Adrian Sherwood and On-U Sound. Creation Rebel and The New Age Steppers were made up of a loose collective of various members of The Slits, The Pop Group & Aswad. Formed in 1978 they acted as the rhythm section for Price Far I's European tour, but were always primarily a studio outfit experimenting with 'the unique possibilities of space and sound within the disciplined structures of the rhythm.'"











Creation Rebel in 1979: (Left to right) "Lizard" Logan, Dr Pablo, Mr Magoo, "Crucial" Tony, Desmond "Fat Fingers" Coke, Style Scott (Photo: On.U Sound)

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