The Black Album

Over 2017 and 2018, Lee 'Scratch' Perry reunited with producer and mixer Daniel Boyle, to work on this solo album. Picking up where their last effort 'Back On the Controls' left off, Lee wanted to continue the raw analogue sound they had cultivated together over multiple past releases, and take it to the next level with new effects devices to create another sonic signature. They entered the studio in 2017, to begin to put together ideas for the tracks, which were then taken to RAK studios in London with their ever-changing Rolling Lion All Stars session band; to lay down the rhythm versions. Using strictly vintage analogue equipment, they employed Neuman valve and RCA Ribbon microphones, and RAK's early model vintage API desk to record, the 'sound' for the album was sculpted in these sessions. Vintage, but punchy, which was then blended with Lee's choice of super rare and custom analogue effects. Ursa Major Space Station and Stargate delays and reverbs, old choruses, Plate and spring reverbs, and tape delays were used to create a tight vintage feel but retaining the rawness of the 'Low Fi' roots sound Lee was aiming for.

1: Mr Brown in Town
2: Mr Brown Dub
3: Trendsetter
4: Trendsetting Dub
5: Your Shadow Is Black
6: Your Shadow Is Dub
7: Dead Meat
8: Dead Meat Dub
9: Dub at Abbey Road
10: Abbey Road Version
11: Bumpy Road of Life
12: Dumpy Dub
13: Captain Perry
14: Captain Dub
15: Killing Dancehall Softly
16: Killing Version
17: Solid State Communication
18: Solid State Dub

Number of Discs: 1

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