Rhythm Shower

1973年リリースのUPSETTERSの名盤が180G重量盤で再発!

1973年、LEE PERRYのレーベルUPSETTERからリリースされたUPSETTERSのスタジオアルバム『RHYTHM SHOWER』。 LEE PERRYがリズムを手掛けSIR LORD COMIG、DILLINGERの曲も収録。 元々はジャマイカ盤がリリースされていたが、TROJANがUK盤をリリースし世界に広まった。

Rhythm Shower is one of producer Lee "Scratch" Perry's more obscure efforts; it was originally released in a limited pressing in Jamaica and in an even more limited edition in England. Despite its obscurity, Rhythm Shower is a pivotal album in Perry's career as a producer and bandleader; it finds him beginning to experiment with dub and developing the distinctive studio sound that would come to full maturation in subsequent years. Whereas earlier albums had offered plenty of instrumental versions, on Rhythm Shower, Perry really starts making use of the studio tricks that characterized what was then the emerging art form of dub -- dropping voices in and out of the mix (as on " Uncle Charlie" and a dub cut of the George Faith classic "To Be a Lover") and doing the same with individual instruments (as he does with Augustus Pablo's melodica on "Kuchy Skank") to create a trippy, hypnotic effect. There are a couple of fine DJ turns from the great Dillinger, but the main attraction is the mighty Upsetters themselves, whose rock-solid rhythms give Perry all the room he needs to maneuver. This is classic Scratch. ~ Rick Anderson