Althea & Donna, <em>Uptown Top Ranking</em><br />

Tracks recorded at Island Studio London, B.B.M.C. Studio London.
Voiced at B.B.M.C. Studio & Music Mountain Studio Jamaica.
Mixed at Music Mountain & Harry J. Studio.
Manufactured by Tree Roots Records, Jamaica.
All Lyrics (c) 1986 Reproduced by kind permission of Tree Roots Music Publishing Co.
We give thanks and praise to Jah Rastafari for making this album possible.
Credits:
Arranged By – Ijahman Levi
Bass – Caswell Swaby, Robbie Shakespeare
Drums – Keith Deacon, Sly Dunbar
Executive-Producer – T. A. Sutherland
Lead Guitar – Ijahman, Stephen Wright
Mastered By – John Dent
Mixed By – Bunny Tom Tom, Michael Riley, S. Morris
Organ – C. Hewie
Percussion – Ijahman, Sidney Wolfe
Photography By – Fitzroy Sang
Piano – Bunny Hilton
Producer – Ijahman Levi
Recorded By – Cha Cha Brown, David Rowe, P. Smitly, Sid Bucknor
Rhythm Guitar – Ijahman, L. Jarrett

Cover [Illustration] – Natasha Cunningham
Cover [Image] – Nkosi Gomez
Creative Director – Jason Panton
Executive-Producer – Eric Smith, Lem Oppenheimer, Michael Goldwasser
Layout – Leni Oppenheimer, Thomas Macdonald
Producer – Jesse Royal
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Easy Star Records
Copyright © – Easy Star Records
Manufactured By – Disc Makers
Manufactured By – Easy Star Records
Distributed By – Easy Star Records

Chinese artist Stinging Ray is finally coming with his first full length album «Fantasy &amp; Waitin’ To Cross Caribbean» teaming up with some of the greatest legends in Reggae music. 12 amazing tracks that will bring you on a real roots reggae journey, working closely with the Roots Radics but also Sly Dunbar, Dean Fraser, Lamont Savory or I Kong thanks to Skunga Kong, you will be reminded of the powerful Jamaican Roots music of the 80’s. A gentle touch of European vibes tagging along as well with a full track in collaboration with the incredible label Irie Ites, a featuring with the giant Big Red and another one with his producer/manager General Huge. You will surprisingly also discover some original ska vibes from the 60’s and some more modern Roots music. This album is the first stone marking a deep collaboration between China and Jamaica. To all that says Chinese Roots Reggae does not exist, you now have the irrefutable proof that not only it does exist, but it’s coming all the way up

ALL SONGS PROUDLY WRITTEN BY ISEO&DODOSOUND.
MUSIC PLAYED AND COMPOSED BY ISEO&DODOSOUND EXCEPT FOR TRACK NUMBER SEVEN, ‘FALLING ASLEEP’, OF WHICH CHORDS AND BASSLINE ARE TAKEN FROM ‘AMPLIFIER’ BY PUPA JIM (STAND HIGH PATROL).
ROCKO TENOR PLAYS SAX IN ‘FRESH AIR’ AND CREATES AND PLAYS THE BRASS ARRANGEMENT IN ‘CAT PLATOON’.
ALBERTO SANZOL PLAYS TRUMPET IN ‘FRESH AIR’, ‘CAT PLATOON’, AND DELIGHTS US WITH HIS STUNNING SOLO IN ‘ZOMBIES’.
IÑIGO XALBADOR PLAYS THE LONELY ALTO SAX IN THE LAST TRACK.
ROBERTO SANCHEZ A.K.A RAS TELFORD PLAYS HIS SWEET MELÓDICA IN ‘FREEDOM’ AND CASTS A MUSICAL SPELL ON ‘FREE US NOW’.
MELÓDICA ON TRACKS NUMBER ONE, ‘FREEDOM’, AND NUMBER NINE, ‘FREE US NOW’, RECORDED BY ROBERTO SANCHEZ AT LONE ARK STUDIO.
RECORDED, ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY DODOSOUND TO ISEO’S LIKING AT COOLTOWN STUDIO AND THE AMBASSADOR’S HOUSE.
ALL TRACKS MASTERED AT CRUDOBILBAO ESTUDIOS BY ANTXON SAGARDUI, EXCEPT FOR TRACK NUMBER SEVEN, ‘FALLING ASLEEP, AND TRACK NUMBER EIGHT, ‘I DON’T I DO’, MASTERED BY AITOR SARRÍA AT ASTOR.
THIS ALBUM INCLUDES ‘DIBI DIBI’ EP PUBLISHED IN JUNE 2015.
ARTWORK BY RIBO.

雷鬼大师Jimmy Cliff的一张精选。

In 1973, when the movie The Harder They Come was released, reggae was not on the radar screen of American pop culture. The soundtrack went a ways toward changing that situation. It is a collection of consistently excellent early reggae songs by artists who went on to thrive with reggae's increased popularity and others for whom this is the most well-known vehicle. Jimmy Cliff is both the star of the movie and the headliner on the soundtrack. He contributes three excellent songs: the hymnal "Many Rivers to Cross," "You Can Get It If You Really Want," and "The Harder They Come" (the latter two are repeated at the end of the album, but you probably wanted to hear them again anyway). Interestingly, the better production values of his songs actually seems to detract from them when compared to the rougher, but less sanitized, mixes of the other tracks. All the songs on this collection are excellent, but some truly stand out. Toots & the Maytals deliver two high-energy songs with "Sweet and Dandy" and "Pressure Drop" (covered by the Clash among others). Scotty develops a mellow, loping groove on "Stop That Train" (not the same as the Wailers' song by the same name) and the Slickers prove on "Johnny Too Bad" that you don't have to spout profanity or graphic violence to convey danger. The Harder They Come is strongly recommended both for the casual listener interested in getting a sense of reggae music and the more serious enthusiast. Collections don't come much better than this.

Bob Marley, <em>Burnin</em>'<br />

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Universal. 2006.