Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Augustus Pablo ~ East Of The River Nile [Message, 1978]







A1. Chant To King Selassie I
A2. Natural Way
A3. Nature Dub
A4. Upfull Living
A5. Unfinished Melody
A6. Jah Light

B1. Memories Of The Ghetto
B2. Africa [1983]
B3. East Of The River Nile
B4. Sounds From Levi
B5. Chapter 2
B6. Addis A Baba



Producer, Melodica, Clavinet, Piano, Organ, Other [String Assemble] - Augustus Pablo
Guitar [Lead] - Earl 'Chinna' Smith
Bass - Aston 'Family Man' Barrett , Bagga , Clayton Downie , Robbie Shakespeare
Drums - Carlton Barrett , Max Edwards , Noel 'Alfonso' Benbow
Engineer - Ernest Hookim , Errol Thompson , Lee Perry , Prince Jammy , Sylvan Morris
Recorded at Harry J, A & R, Channel One, King Tubbys & Black Ark Studios

never thought eyed drop an album this common, but it's dub week [remember?] & this classique set of intrumentals has not been done justice on the bloggies. augustus pablo hopefully needs no introduction & on these heady stabs the mang masterfully plays just about every toy that has some form of piano keys on it, including an Arp String Ensemble [just like Bowie/Eno on 'Low', & a million other bands!] & has his signal psyched out by some pretty heavy producers of the day. it's very likely you have this one in some form or another owlready, maybe even with bonus cuts :) but hear goes my 320 rip of this stellar slab in its original intended sequence. if you can find a better sounding one on the interwebs, we'd love to know about it :) enjoy

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