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Skatalites
From Paris with Love
$17.99
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The record label press stuff:
After an amazingly successful reunion tour, the Skatalites headed into the studio to work on a recording project that would at last do justice to their own inimitable sound. With hardly any overdubs, all the musicians playing simultaneously with the spontaneity that characterizes them, they started into their live repertoire with relish, including “Guns of Navarone,” “River to the Bank,” “Freedom Sounds” and “Trip to Mars” (which got a very special treatment from the brass section). Many other historical “riddims” of Jamaican music, the African Beat, the Rock Fort Rock and the Ride Me Donkey got revisited, or rather reclaimed by their original performers with the bass-lines, saxophone riffs or drum-rolls that have now become part of Reggae’s musical history. As things heated up, and the vibes continued to flow, The Skatalites unleashed their collective inspiration, improvising together and cutting two completely original tracks destined to be future anthems: “Lester’s Mood” and “Glory to the Sound.” Almost effortlessly, having listened to Miriam Makeba’s version of “Pata Pata,” they transformed it into “Skata Skata.” Doreen Shaffer, the band’s original vocalist, let the horns sing “Pata Pata,” but still gave us three sweet “Rocksteady’s” that swing easy. The sound of The Skatalites has journeyed intact through time and space— Glory to the Sound.
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