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Format: CD
Jun 1996
2 Discs
Record Label: Island Jamaica
Recording Type: Mixed
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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Marcus Garvey
2. Slavery Days
3. I & I Survive - (dub)
4. Old Marcus Garvey
5. Tradition
6. Invasion, The (A.K.A. Black WA-da-da) - (12" version)
7. Door Peep
8. No More War
9. Black Soul
10. Man in the Hills
11. Cultivation - (dub)
12. Sun, The
13. It's a Long Way Around
14. Throw Down Your Arms
15. Dry & Heavy
16. Black Disciples
17. Lion, The
18. Jordan River - (previously unreleased, previously unreleased)
19. Jah No Dead
DISC 2:
1. Marcus Children Suffer
2. Social Living - (12" version)
3. Marcus Say Jah No Dead
4. Nyah Keith
5. Civilize Reggae - (12" version)
6. Mek We Dweet
7. My Roots
8. Recall Some Great Men
9. Great Men's Dub - (12" version)
10. One People
11. African Woman
12. Jah Kingdom
13. Praise Him
14. Should I
15. Estimated Prophet
16. Thank You
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Aswad, Sly & Robbie | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Burning Spear (Winston Rodney) (vocals, percussion); Earl "Chinna" Smith, Ranchie McLean, Brinsley Forde, Donald Griffiths, Donald Kinsey, Linvall Jarrett (guitar); Herman Marquis (alto saxophone); Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall (tenor saxophone); Bobby Ellis (trumpet); Charles Dickey, Nambo Robinson (trombone); Robbie Lynn (synthesizer, piano); Earl "Wire" Lindo, Courtney Hemmings (keyboards); Robbie Shakespeare, Aston "Family Man" Barrett, George Oban (bass); Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, Angus Gaye, Sly Dunbar (drums); Uziah "Sticky" Thompson (percussion); Rupert Willington, Delroy Hines (background vocals).
Producers include: Laurence Lindo (Jack Ruby), Winston Rodney.
Compilation producer: Jerry Rappaport.
Engineers include: Errol Thompson, Sylvan Morris.
Principally recorded at Randy's Studio, Harry J Studio and Tuff Gong Studios, Kingston, Jamaica; Grove Recording Studio, Ocho Rios, Jamaica; Compass Point Studios, Nassau, The Bahamas. Includes liner notes by Amy Wachtel.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Since 1973, Burning Spear has consistently remained true to an uncompromisingly unique and intense style of reggae. The two-disc CHANT DOWN BABYLON gathers together the cream of Spear's output for Island from his '70s heyday and his brief early-'90s return to the label.
More than a mere musician, Burning Spear (a.k.a. Winston Rodney) always used his musical career as a pulpit from which to sing about black culture and history, pan-Africanism, Rastafarianism, and universal love. Spear took his name from Kenyan revolutionary Jomo Kenyatta, and his greatness as an artists has consistently shone through, be it on straightforward studio songs ("Door Peep," "Dry & Heavy"), pioneering explorations of dub ("I & I Survive," "Cultivation"), or scintillating live performances ("The Lion," "Jordan River"). Spear not only wrote his own music but hand-picked his backup musicians, who have included members of the Wailers, Aswad, and a host of crack Jamaican session cats. All these factors make CHANT DOWN an essential addition to any reggae collection.
Industry Reviews
4 Stars - Excellent - ...Spear is a single-minded deliverer of Rasta's message....Simultaneously full of claustrophobic dread and vibrant with Jamaica's country breezes....He knows what is to be a captive...and yet feel free in himself...and lets the rest of us feel it too.
Q Magazine (10/01/1996)
8 (out of 10) - ...For 27 years now, the devout Rastafarian...has been a lone voice calling for truth, rights and justice with unwavering conviction....CHANT DOWN BABYLON copiles some of Burning Spear's morsels...
New Musical Express (08/10/1996)
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