Hugh Mundell - Jah FireReissue of this excellent Prince Jammy produced combination LP between two youth singers of the day; Hugh Mundell, fresh from his classic work with Augustus Pablo, and cohort Lacksley Castell. Both their young lives were tragically cut short, Mundell in a shooting incident and Castell by natural causes, both in 1983, only two years after this album was originally released. Both singers are featured across a clutch of typical Jammy's rhythms of the

wakawaka funky guitars and narcotizing rhythm sections of darbukas and drum sets

which harkens back to the gritty neo-garage rock of Murder City Devils

The years etching out Joy Division-inspired goth twaddle in the mid-'80s pay off on the tense

I was hoping to create something where voice is used as an instrument

” says Berman of his process

an enchanting

A doom infused set of stygian sludge drone that calls to mind the faded hinterlands of early electronic music infused with modern menace

Available on indies-only electric blue vinyl

brian et all wander into the unknown and come back with insane arrangements

and is an essential album for any fan of Shankar or Indian music in general

the album features twelve singular takes on specially chosen protest songs across an almost 100-year span and shows The Specials still care

while guitarist Jonny Greenwood proved equally gifted with restrained strumming and electric flare-gun solos