Earth Roots And Water - Innocent Youths
Artist : Earth Roots And Water
Album : Innocent Youths
Year : 2008
Genre : Reggae
Source : CDDA
Label : Light In The Attic
CatNr : LITA032
URL : http://www.lightintheattic.net/releases/earthrootswater/
Date : 09-05-2008
Quality : VBR
Size : 52,2 MB
Time : 35:04 min
01 innocent youths 06:23
02 tribulations 07:19
03 liberation 02:51
04 love the same old way 02:46
05 lou sent me 03:11
06 jah les lament 06:06
07 zion 06:28
Innocent Youths was the first long player released on Jerry Brown's
Summer Records imprint, hitting the emerging Toronto reggae marketplace
in 1977. In 2008, the original LP is virtually extinct, a highly coveted
and extremely rare piece of Canadian reggae history (often described as
the northern answer to Lee Perry's Black Ark). For the uninitiated, we
are talking heavy bass, drums, reverb, echo, roots vocals, keys, guitar,
percussion, and Brown's wild style touch behind the controls.
Earth, Roots & Water was initially formed in the mid-seventies to
provide hard rhythms and tight backing tracks for the growing number of
musical friends and family who ventured to Brown's Malton, Ontario,
basement studio. Over the years, a veritable who's who of Jamaican music
scene passed through Summer Sound to record with like-minded brethren.
Jackie Mittoo, Willi Williams, Johnny Osbourne, Carl Dawkins, Leroy
Sibbles, Stranger Cole, and King Jammy are just a handful of the label's
impressive roster.
By 1977, Earth, Roots & Water had developed into an engaging live entity
as well, based around the talents of Adrian "Homer" Miller (vocals),
Anthony "Base" Hibbert (bass), Colin "Zuba" Suban (drums), Matt Shelley
(guitar), and Tony "KB" Moore (keyboards). Both a sonic and visual
force, the charismatic youths soon found themselves performing in and
around the Toronto area, opening up for The Police and The Stranglers
while extending the UK-born punk/reggae love affair to North America.
In 2008, Light In The Attic Records along with Jerry Brown and
Jamaica-Toronto series producer Kevin Howes (aka Sipreano) have decided
to share this vital bounty to reggae fans the world over. Innocent
Youths contains the complete studio album lovingly remastered from the
original Summer Records master tapes. Over 30 years ahead of its time,
this maverick material showcases the breadth of Earth, Roots & Water.
Dig in...
source: http://www.lightintheattic.net/releases/earthrootswater/