Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture 1980
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture 1980
MP3 @ 320 | 57 MB | Cover
Genre: Reggae
MP3 @ 320 | 57 MB | Cover
Genre: Reggae
Linton Kwesi Johnson's aptly titled sophomore Island release finds the poet typically terse in expression and taut in flow. With his poetic skills honed by experience, he wisely invites the listener to draw on his empathy and fill in his own antiromantic details in this sonic portrait of displaced black lives "inna foreign." Less a scream of rage and more a stew of simmering resentment, poems like "Inglan is a Bitch" extract humor from what is, after all, "noh funny." LKJ's savaging of "Di Black Petty Booshwah" is balanced by the love moment in "Loraine," a delicately wistful anecdote of missed opportunity. In "Reggae Sounds" and the title track, Bovell and LKJ celebrate riddim culture's "word plus sound equals power" formula, elucidating the links between core-of-the-earth bass lines and a people's grinding struggle.Amazon.com Elena Oumano
Released 1980
Bass - Floyd Lawson tracks: 1, 5
- Vivian Weathers tracks: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 & 8
Drums - Jah Bunny tracks: 1, 3,4, 5, 6, 7 & 8
- Winston Curniffe track: 2
Flugelhorn, Trumpet - Dick Cuthell , Henry "Buttons" Tenyue
Guitar - John Kpiaye
Harmonica - Julio Finn
Keyboards - Dennis Bovell , Webster Johnson
Percussion - Clinton Bailey , Everald "Fari" Forrest , Jah Bunny
Saxophone [Alto] - James Danton
Saxophone [Tenor] - Henry "Buttons" Tenyue
Trombone - Rico*
Vocals, Written-By - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Engineer - Dennis Bovell , John Caffrey* , Mark Lusardy*
Mixed By - Dennis Bovell
Producer - Blackbeard (2) , Linton Kwesi Johnson
Tape [Tape-op] - Sid Bucknor
Recorded - Gooseberry Sound Studios
Artwork - Dennis Morris
1 Bass Culture 6:04
2 Street 66 3:43
3 Reggae Fi Peach 2:40
4 Di Black Pretty Booshwah 3:34
5 Inglan Is A Bitch 5:25
6 Loraine 4:07
7 Reggae Sounds 3:10
8 Two Sides Of Silence 2:12