Kung Fu Meets The Dragon
Artist:
Format:
Long Play Vinyl
No of Discs:
2
Availability:
Available
Release Date:
25-02-2013
Label:
Packaging:
Gate Fold Vinyl
Catalog Number:
SUNSPLP010
Description
180g Vinyl re-issue of classic 1970's Upsetters album with an extra disc of additional tracks in a gatefold sleeve.
"Kung Fu Meets The Dragon" is a martial arts-themed project, largely made up of instrumental versions of some of Perry's productions (Roy Shirley's "Hold Them", Linval Thompson's "Kung Fu") and other musical pieces, enriched with Perry's trademark use of percussion and production tricks such as phasing, dubbing, talkover etc. and inspired by the wave of martial arts movies that were popular at the time.
Recorded and produced by Perry at his own Black Ark Studios, it notably features ace Jamaican polyinstrumentalist Augustus Pablo on melodica (and maybe keyboards as well), his gentle playing adding some otherworldly melodic content to the sparse sound.
MUSICIANS
Augustus Pablo: Melodica
Boris Gardiner: Bass
Earl Chinna Smith: Guitar
Mikey Boo Richards & Ben Bow: Drums
Bobby Ellis, Dirty Harry: Horns
Keith Sterling: Piano
Lee Perry & Skully: Percussion
Tracks
- Name
- Theme From Hong Kong.
- Heart Of The Dragon.
- Hold Them Kung Fu.
- Flames Of The Dragon.
- Scorching Iron.
- Skango.
- Fungaa.
- Black Belt.
- Iron Fist.
- Kung Fu Man.
- Rebels Dub.
- Enter The Dragon.
- The Dragon Enters.
- 23rd Dub.
- Black Belt Jones.
- Rockstone Dub.
- Exit The Dragon.