john.brown_typeface"They're at the turning point
They're at the turning point, to reality
They keep on burning
They keep on burning"
The Congos - Sodom and Gomorrow (1977)
https://youtu.be/CVtQDr8Fsz4
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Jan 16 2026
This week it’s time for #Renewal
Greentea Peng, “I AM (Reborn)” from TELL DEM IT'S SUNNY (2025)
I think it was during last year’s World Series when I heard an absolutely SLAMMIN hook in a commercial, intoning:
I AM NOT WHO I WAS YESTERDAY
I AM NOT WHO I WAS YESTERDAY
I kept watching, trigger finger on Shazam ready to get the track ID the next time - and then I had it. The artist? Greentea Peng.
I’m sorry, What-tea who? Man, do I feel old.
Anyway, I found this is her third full-length album, and from what I can tell from bits I’ve found online, the most diverse. She’s worked with Nightmares on Wax, added vocals on a track by Lee "Scratch" Perry, and been remixed by Tricky - quite the pedigree in my sonic worldview. I hear a lot of similarities with Tricky in his more experimental moments, but with at times more warmth, and at others, as in this track, more DRIVE.
I AM (Reborn)
100Dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXTKrXs2dA&list=RDax5phXqMjCU&index=36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TesAHKG9iMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbb192bVGAU&list=RDrbb192bVGAU&start_radio=1
Andi ChorleyMany Moods of the Upsetters is a studio album by the Upsetters, released in 1970.
"...This album could have been termed Clint Eastwood Part 2 as a lot of the tracks are inter-connected. For instance, LP opener Ex-Ray Vision provided the basis for Selassie on Clint Eastwood and Taste Of Killing is done over as archetypal organ stomper Beware Fade on Many Moods. Carl Dawkins again shines on the Temptations cover Cloud Nine and I found Pat Satchmo’s Louis Armstrong impressions droll on the rude Goosy and Boss Society. I always like to hear Val Bennett on sax and he does so with gusto on Mean And Dangerous and Soul Stew is another tasteful instrumental and very danceable. Many Moods Of “The Upsetters” draws to a close with Perry offering up a version of Games People Play in his own special way, with a steel drum sound substituting for vocals." Louder Than War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTxTH8M-Wyc&list=OLAK5uy_mcBcDcod3cHitQQJmbcVZJ_CzqAV6FY70
To Be A Lover by George Faith, released on Black Swan in 1977.
"In 1977, Perry again produced the song, this time for Earl George Turner. This version, also called simply "To Be a Lover",[a] was heavily shaped by Perry's Black Ark sound and effects and featured backing vocals from the Meditations and Mighty Diamonds. His first recording saw little success, but after renaming to George Faith, he released a new version of the song on his debut studio album, Super Eight (1977), which was released as To Be a Lover in the UK. More popular than any of the previous Jamaican versions of the track, it became a hit there and in the UK" Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3os0JQgh68c&list=PLdSzdSlsJO3AQuAsisM7dSK2rOxe-q8Il&index=2
#GeorgeFaith #LeeScratchPerry #RootsReggae #Music #Meditations #MightyDiamonds
Heart of the Congos is a roots reggae album by the Congos, produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry at his Black Ark studio with a studio band including Boris Gardiner on bass and Ernest Ranglin on guitar. The album was released in 1977. It is noted as being one of Perry's masterpiece productions of the Black Ark era.
Barrow and Peter Dalton called Heart of the Congos "the most completely successful of all the albums recorded at the Black Ark," and "one of the prime examples of Jamaican vocal technique" due to the dynamic combination of Cedric Myton’s falsetto lead vocals, Roy "Ashanti" Johnson’s tenor lead vocals and backing vocals by noted singers such as Gregory Isaacs and members of the Meditations and the Heptones - Wikipedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFTxmDy74LI&list=OLAK5uy_lZ-jLMzonI-U97lPiXhPQvfqFMW9V5uxE
#TheCongos #LeeScratchPerry #BlackArk #RootsReggae #ErnestRanglin #Music
Scratch the Upsetter Again is a studio album by the Jamaican reggae band the Upsetters, released in 1970
Scratch the Upsetter Again/Eastwood Rides Again Review by John Dougan
..If it's way-out, total space vibe you're looking for, these 26 tracks won't offer you enough meat. But if it's quality skank you want, where the riddims are tuff, the playing is cool and slick, and the production is flawless, you won't want to go another day without owning this. Worth it just to hear Dave Barker's great version of the Shirelles' "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXPrQS8gero&list=PLntDzBDdPvVRRuWfyRHfgqG1hfGK17asi&index=6
#LeeScratchPerry #TheUpsetters #Upsetters #Reggae #Dub #Music #TrojanRecords #DaveBarker #TheShirelles
The Good, the Bad and the Upsetters is a studio album by the Upsetters, released in 1970. Lee Perry had no direct involvement with this album and never considered it an Upsetters album.
In response to the album's release, Perry released an album in Jamaica a year later with the same title and Trojan artwork but with a completely different track listing. - Wikipedia
This 1971 album shows the beginnings of Lee Perry’s trademark production eccentricities with rum punch drunk steel pan drums, doom mongering monophonic synth lines, Upsetters style organ skanks and sparse arrangements that would help develop the building blocks of dub. - Cherry Red
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ts_Xbibyao&list=RD3ts_Xbibyao&start_radio=1
#LeeScratchPerry #Dub #Jamaica #Reggae #TheUpsetters #organskanks #Music
Eastwood Rides Again Review by Matt Whalley
...The mixture of Lee Perry production and at times pure American funk lead to great results. That unique Perry percussion lurking underneath all of the tracks keep them from just being straight rhythm and blues or funk tracks. The tracks may be too straightforward to fans of later Perry productions, but the songs are tight and funky. The only washes of reverb come at the beginning when Perry announces the album. After that, the only dub effects come in a weird sound effect in Eastwood Rides Again that sounds like a mobile phone and in pops and screams in "Django (Old Man River)." The album is a fantastic collection of instrumentals that show that some of the best rhythm and blues was coming from Jamaica... After listening to the rhythm of "Red Hot," it is hard to doubt the power of an Upsetters instrumental.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTEHBRjC7Ro&list=RDPTEHBRjC7Ro&start_radio=1
