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Heavy Rain
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Heavy Rain
Artist
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Label
On-U Sound
Catalogue Number
ONUDL145
Release Date
December 6, 2019

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    Limited Edition, Silver Coloured Vinyl

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    ONULP145X

    A dub companion to the critically-acclaimed Rainford album pressed on silver vinyl. Full colour printed inner with lyrics, full colour printed outer sleeve with 3mm spine sleeve, download card, retail sticker on overwrap.

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    12" Vinyl

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    ONULP145

    A dub companion to the critically-acclaimed Rainford album pressed on black vinyl. Full colour printed inner with lyrics, full colour printed outer sleeve with 3mm spine sleeve, download card, retail sticker on overwrap.

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    CD in jewel case with full colour printed tray and 4 panel lyric booklet, retail sticker on overwrap.

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A dub companion to the critically-acclaimed Rainford album that sees the Upsetter and co-producer Adrian Sherwood radically re-version the original tapes with a host of guest musicians including Brian Eno and Vin Gordon.

If Rainford is 2019’s Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread then Heavy Rain is it’s Super Ape.

As well as highlighting the deft musicianship of the original backing band on the Rainford sessions (which include core On-U luminaries from Creation Rebel, Tackhead and Dub Syndicate) these re-works also invite some further players into the cosmic mix. Brian Eno makes an unexpected right channel entry into “Here Come The Warm Dreads”, a heavily processed sound system overhaul of Rainford highlight “Makumba Rock”, cheekily re-titled as a nod to Eno’s own debut solo album. This completes a circle started in 1981 with African Head Charge’s My Life In A Hole In The Ground similarly referencing the contemporary collaboration between Eno and David Byrne, and their “vision of a psychedelic Africa”.

Elsewhere, legendary trombonist Vin Gordon (one of the hornsmen on Bob Marley & The Wailers Exodus amongst many other classic sides) lends his distinctively woozy blowing to tracks such as “Rattling Bones And Crowns” (a late night flipside to “Kill Them Dreams Money Worshippers”) and “Crickets In Moonlight” (“Cricket In The Moon” refracted through some beautifully louche late summer heat haze lens). On the closest the album has to a title track, “Heavy Rainford” strips back the narrative from “Autobiography Of The Upsetter” to ride the rhythm with all sorts of mixing desk tricks, anchored by the killer “I Am The Upsetter” hook from LSK.

It’s important to note that it’s not all Rainford re-works though: “Dreams Come True” and “Above And Beyond” are Scratch and Sherwood originals, heard here for the first time and equally strong material for this purple patch in the career of an unstoppable Jamaican maverick and true musical pioneer.  

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Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Intro - Music Shall Echo 0:39 Buy

    Intro - Music Shall Echo

  2. 2 Here Come The Warm Dreads (feat. Brian Eno) 4:50 Buy

    Here Come The Warm Dreads (feat. Brian Eno)

  3. 3 Rattling Bones And Crowns (feat. Vin Gordon) 4:42 Buy

    Rattling Bones And Crowns (feat. Vin Gordon)

  4. 4 Mindworker (feat. Gaudi) 3:58 Buy

    Mindworker (feat. Gaudi)

  5. 5 Enlightened (feat. Gaudi) 4:12 Buy

    Enlightened (feat. Gaudi)

  6. 6 Hooligan Hank 0:59 Buy

    Hooligan Hank

  7. 7 Crickets In Moonlight (feat. Vin Gordon) 3:52 Buy

    Crickets In Moonlight (feat. Vin Gordon)

  8. 8 Space Craft (feat. Gaudi) 4:04 Buy

    Space Craft (feat. Gaudi)

  9. 9 Dreams Come True (feat. Gaudi) 3:27 Buy

    Dreams Come True (feat. Gaudi)

  10. 10 Above And Beyond 4:12 Buy

    Above And Beyond

  11. 11 Heavy Rainford (feat. Vin Gordon) 4:32 Buy

    Heavy Rainford (feat. Vin Gordon)

  12. 12 Outro - Wisdom 0:18 Buy

    Outro - Wisdom

Lee "Scratch" Perry

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