From Miles Egan Sent Wed, Oct 15th 1997, 03:42
From Miles Egan Sent Wed, Oct 15th 1997, 03:42
>From: Random Junk <xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx> >Subject: Re: (idm) BD bytes, D'nB, bjork & rambling > >Irene McC writes: >> I've just borrowed something wonderful : African Head Charge's "In >> Pursuit of Shashamane Land" (prod. by Adrian Sherwood) 1993, on On-U >> Sound. Amaaaaaaazing doesn't come close to summing it up. > >yep, i LOVE this album. really beautiful. also the previous AHC >"songs of praise" is well worth your time. i'm not as keen on their >earlier stuff tho. Just in case anyone's thinking I've abandoned my tradition of disagreeing with Jon at every opportunity, I'll have to mention that I've got no use at all for any AHC after and including _Songs of Praises_. It all sounds shamelessly lightweight & worldbeat to me, especially in the towering shadow of the genuinely twisted and brilliant Afro-chant psychedelic dub of their early work. >also, despite the fact that AHC features adrian sherwood and skip >mcdonald, it's still about a zillion miles away from the industrial >funk hardness of mark stewart/tackhead/fats comet. amazing how the >same people can be so brilliant at two entirely different styles. I haven't heard enough Stewart to comment, but, as far as I'm concerned, Adrian Sherwood is the great satan of muso-dub perversion. Nobody matches his talent for stripping such an insanely creative and unpredictable music of all humor and character and replacing it with bland anglo studio sheen. A few spins of prime Lee Perry, Augustus Pablo, or King Tubby will cure the discerning listener. AHC had a brilliant sense of the implications of the original dub innovations, but lost the thread after about four essential albums. Miles on: Frank Heiss - 370 Degrees ( Wagon Christ meets fusion Miles Davis, perhaps a bit too repetitive tho )