Global A Go-Go presents:
King Scratch
Jamaican popular music has long been a producer’s medium, and no Jamaican producer has ever been more prolific, confounding or just plain unique than Lee “Scratch” Perry. Perry’s oeuvre runs the gamut from unlistenable to transcendent (often from the same session), and his output was so vast that it’s hard for the uninitiated to get a handle on it.
The folks at Trojan and Sanctuary Records have done all of us the great favor of putting together what is for the moment the definitive Lee “Scratch” Perry beginner’s compilation. Entitled King Scratch (Musical Masterpieces From The Upsetter Ark-ive), its short version includes 40 mostly essential tracks, and its long version expands to a box of 4 LPs, 4 more CDs and a 50 page book. I’ll play you a few tracks from the short version this week, and add a couple more that I assume they just weren’t able to license.
Also this week (Sunday September 25, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards on the wrir.org archive player, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site): Nigerian highlife’s Etsako Super Star, new music from the James Brown of Ghana, Al-Qasar’s Arabian fuzz, songs Bio Ritmo has covered and hot new Haitian mizik rasin by Wesli.
Podcast: radio4all.net/program/113602
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Show Archive
Play show / Add show to playlistPlaylist:
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Joe Strummer & Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a Go-Go”
from Global a Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
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Alhaji Waziri Oshomah, “Omhona-Omhona”
from World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife Of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah
Luaka Bop - 2022
Nigeria, 1980
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Osayomore Joseph & The Creative Seven, “Africa Is My Root”
from Edo Funk Explosion, Vol. 1
Analog Africa - 2021
Nigeria, 1980
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Anthony Joseph, “Calling England Home”
from The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives
Heavenly Sweetness - 2021
Trinidad & Tobago-England UK
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Chicago Afrobeat Project, “Inner City Blues Makes Ya Wanna Holler”
from Nyash Up!
CAbP Music - 2012
USA
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Al-Qasar, “Hobek Thawrat (feat. Alsarah)”
from Who Are We?
Glitterbeat Records - 2022
France-USA-Morocco-Algeria-Egypt-Sudan-Yemen
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Watty Burnett, “Open the Gate (7" Mix)”
from King Scratch (Musical Masterpieces from the Upsetter Ark-ive)
Trojan Records - 2022
Jamaica, 1977
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The Heptones, “Sufferer's Time”
from King Scratch (Musical Masterpieces From The Upsetter Ark-ive)
Trojan Records - 2022
Jamaica, 1976
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Max Romeo, “Fire Fe the Vatican (7" Mix)”
from King Scratch (Musical Masterpieces from the Upsetter Ark-ive)
Trojan Records - 2022
Jamaica, 1976
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Bob Marley & The Wailers, “Duppy Conqueror”
from African Herbsman (Deluxe Version)
Trojan - 2003
Jamaica, 1970
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Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go September 25th, 2022
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