RAS MICHAEL and THE SONS OF NEGUS / PROMISED LAND SOUNDS (DUG OUT盤LP)
これはRAS MICHAEL（ラス・マイケル）によるナイヤビンギ／ラスタファリズムのレア名盤だと言われていますが、魂のヴォーカリゼイションの名記録としても記憶しておくべき貴重音源（ラス・マイケルのスピリチュアリティがズバーン！と分かります）だと思います!!! カリフォルニアで録音されバンクーバーでダブ・ミックスされた、プリミティヴ・ダブとしても認識するべき濃厚盤。HONEST JON'SとBASIC CHANNELがタッグを組んだコア・レゲエ復刻レーベルDUG OUTからのリイシュー！ 'Rockin live ruff and tuff', this is the untrammelled counterpart to Dadawah, six years later in 1980, fresh from the Black Ark: free, rawly spiritual trance-music; a full-force nyabinghi freak-out. The drummers are headlong and rollicking, thunderous and explosive. Even more so than Dadawah, the mix is ecstatically echoey; giddily dubwise without let-up. Ras Michael himself sings from the mountain-top, like he just don't care - at the top of his lungs, in voices, screeching like a bird - with the delirious abandonment otherwise owned in reggae by Lee Perry. Amongst the uncredited performances swirled into proceedings, there are squiggles of flute straight from the Upsetters song-book, the minor-key organ stabs and abstraction of electric space-jazz, and sax-playing more attuned to the Headhunters than the Blazing Horns. (I Ya I in particular is a stunning fifteen minutes.) This is the real thing, music without affectation. Pure reggae. Sun Ra fans should love it; anyone with ears to hear. Prepared and manufactured at Abbey Road, D&M and Pallas; beautifully presented in rigid, old-school, tip-on sleeves, with matt-coated fronts and untreated-paper backs; 180g vinyl. 'These sounds are sounds of inspiration and love and culture to the universal benefit of mankind... So therefore meditate and stop hate.' Very hotly recommended. （DUG OUT） Side One 1. YOYO 2. BOOM A YA Side Two 1. I YA I 2. NON A JAH JAH 3. CHILDREN NO CRY Format：LP Label：DUG OUT (UK)
