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Treasure trove of Jamaican music, February 18, 2007
This review is from: More Intensified: Ska 63-67 (Audio CD)
This album covers early ska from 1963 to 1967 in a blend of instrumentals and vocal numbers. My favourites include Six and Seven Books of Moses by The Maytals as The Vikings, Mount Zion by Desmond Dekker and the amazing Congo War by Lord Brynner and The Sheiks, in which the civil war in the Congo in the early 1960's is discussed in a most colourful manner. Train to Skaville by The Ethiopians is another soulful, melodic track, displaying the diversity of this Jamaican style. Other artists here include The Skatalites, Don Drummond, Stranger Cole, Sir Lord Comic, Marguerita, The Soul Brothers and Eric Morris. All of these tracks were recorded in Kingston, Jamaica, from 1963 to 1967 and the instruments include trumpet, trombone, tenor and alto sax, keyboard, bass, drums and guitar. This is chugging great music!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Another lost classic, November 30, 2006
This review is from: More Intensified: Ska 63-67 (Audio CD)
Another out-of-print classic from Island/Mango. As with "Club Ska 67", this contains a nice mix of popular hits ("Man in the Street", "Train to Skaville") with more obscure numbers that aren't available on every other ska compilation out there ("Congo War", "Run Joe"). I used to have a cassette with this on one side and "Club Ska 67" on the other side which was a permanent resident in my car's cassette deck, circa 1993. I'm glad I grabbed this on CD when I had a chance, since Island is obviously content to let Trojan grab all the dollars/pounds from today's fans of old-time ska with their inferior, repetitive compilations.
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