Reggae is Here Once Again, by Steel An' Skin

Reggae is Here Once Again

by Steel An' Skin

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Tony de Vries Steel drums and tinny catchy backup singers. "Deep reggae... I loooove you. Rat tatat... ta ta". Lifts the mood!! Then floats around a bit on the guitar pedals etc - which is fine. Favorite track: Afro Punk Reggae (Dub).

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Comes with a whole new printed matter. CD version has a bonus DVD disc (region all) for a 1979 documentary film "Steel 'N' Skin" directed & filmed by Steve Shaw. New 24-page booklet includes the English / Japanese liner notes and photos. CD only cover art, 2D jewel case, obi attached.

CD track list:
1. Reggae Is Here Once Again
2. Gadzo Drumming
3. Fire in Soweto
4. Afro Punk Reggae (Dub)
5. Acid Rain
6. Hi Life
7. John Belly Mama (previously unreleased)

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LP comes with a new cover art and a new LP insert. This LP version includes three LP-only tracks. The liner notes written by the late and great Sir Peter Blackman. All parts of the liner notes are dual-language in both Japanese and English. Standard 140g black vinyl in a black inner sleeve. The inside of the LP sleeve is printed in blue.

Side A
1. Reggae is Here Once Again
2. Fire in Soweto
3. Hi Life
4. Afro Punk Reggae (Dub)

Side B
1. Acid Rain
2. Lady (vocal) *
3. Lady (instrumental) *
4. Burning World *

* LP only track

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	1.	Reggae is Here Once Again 04:34
	2.	Gadzo Drumming 00:41
	3.	Afro Punk Reggae (Dub) 06:41
	4.	Acid Rain 08:45
	5.	Hi Life 07:45
	6.	John Belly Mama (previously unreleased) 03:02

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スティール・パン＋ディスコ＋ダブ from 1970s

スティール・アン・スキンは、40年代から英／欧で活躍したアフリカン・ハイライフのスター、ジンジャー・ジョンソンのバンド The Afrikan Drummersの一員だったピーター・ブラックマン（トリニダード出身）によって、1970年代初頭のロンドンで結成されたカリビアン系グループ。トリニダード、ガーナ、ジャマイカ等の出身者で構成され、ロンドンに生まれたアフリカン／カリビアンの子供達に、彼らのルーツの文化を教えるワークショップとして活動し、バンドとしても英／ヨーロッパをツアーした。グループ名は彼らの使う楽器（スチール・パンや木製の打楽器など）に由来する。

スティール・アン・スキンは、1972年からジンジャー・ジョンソンのバンドでプレイしていたブラックマンが、西ロンドンにあったジョンソンのクラブ「Iroko Country Club」（＊注）の箱バンのミュージシャンや常連の黒人達と結成したバンドだ。スティール・アン・スキンがスタートして間もなく、そのうち数人が20th Century Steel Band（彼らの作品「Heaven & Hell on the Earth」は後にグランドマスター・フラッシュのネタとして世界に広まった）を結成し、アルバム制作のために一時脱退するが、20th Century Steel Bandが解散した1978年、中核メンバーのバブルス（Michael Olivera またの名を Moutalla Mohammed）を含む4人がカムバック。そこでファースト・シングル「Reggae Is Here Once Again」を制作した。

ソカに四つ打ちのディスコ・ビートを取り入れた「Reggae Is…」はスティール・アン・スキンの1stシングルとして1979年発表され、カップリングの「Afro Punk Reggae (Dub)」は大胆なダブ処理を加えたリミックス・ヴァージョンで、スティール・パンのダブ作品として初（？）の試みだった。

＊注：ジンジャー・ジョンソンの「Iroko Country Club」は、Average White Band, Osibisa, Fela Kuti, Peter Sellers, Martin Feldman, Ebenezer Obeyなどが出演したイギリスで当時最もホットなアフリカ系クラブで、ロンドンの黒人層に混じって、多くの有名人、芸能人、ロック・ミュージシャンが出入りした伝説的スポット。

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released April 28, 2018

Ultra-positive consciousness from Afro-Caribbean London, circa 1979. Members of the legendary 20th Century Steel Band (one of Grand Master Flash's favourites) sailing Trinidad-wise over gratifyingly intricate African ritual rhythms. Strong vocals compliment reggae, funk, disco and soul influences to form a relentless groove machine.

Steel an' Skin, a unit composed of young nightclub musicians born in Ghana, Nigeria, St. Kitts, Trinidad and the U.K., who once performed with Ginger Johnson's Afrikan Drummers, a highlife band under the tutelage of the late Ginger Johnson and played at Johnson's Iroko Country Club in Hampstead, London. Steel an' Skin began activities giving concerts and workshops in London schools, expanding nationwide to schools, prisons, psychiatric hospitals and summer festivals, including the world-famous Notting Hill Carnival. The group combined an admirably brave, open and unironic mix of musical forms with community outreach, non-cynical and untainted by preachiness or "social work." Good feelings from good hearts.

This EM reissue consists of Steel an' Skin's 1979 debut 12 inch single "Reggae is Here Once Again", featuring "Afro Punk Reggae (Dub)", a fine disco-dub workout, plus some tracks from their 1984 recordings, as well as one unissued track.

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