LTD BOX SET
Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Grounation BOX (3 LP's, 7", BOOK)
SKU: SJR495
Description:
UK import!
Limited box set including three LP's, bonus 7" + 16 page magazine +
art print + interview insert.
Like Sun Ra's Arkestra and John Coltrane are to jazz, the Mystic
Revelation of Rastafari are to reggae - the ultimate expression of
roots music and Rastafarian ideology in reggae music, music
functioning at a high level of spiritual consciousness combined
with an equally avant-garde and forward-looking approach to
sound.
The group's stunning, unique and groundbreaking 1972 album
‘Grounation’, a mighty conceptual triple-album (the first ever
reggae triple!) is, similar to Marvin Gaye's 'What's Goin' On', a
definitive all-encompassing cultural statement of its time and
place. A sprawling album of raw and unique cultural expression that
combined Rastafari consciousness with deep spiritual jazz music -
an absolute and essential classic of Reggae music.
The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari group came into existence at the
start of 1970s, the union of two artists of equal repute – Count
Ossie and his African Drums and saxophonist Cedric ‘Im’ Brooks’ and
his group, The Mystics. Both Ossie and Brooks were alumni from the
great Studio One Records.
Master drummer Count Ossie and his collective of Rastafarian
drummers performed for Haile Selassie on his momentous visit to
Jamaica in 1966. Cedric Brooks came out of the Alpha Boys School –
the fertile breeding ground of musicians who dominated the Jamaican
music scene from the 1960s onwards; Tommy McCook, Don Drummond,
Johnny Moore, Headley Bennett, Johnny Osbourne, Yellowman, Leroy
Smart, Bobby Ellis, Joe Harriott, Eddie Thornton, Vin Gordon, Rico
Rodriguez, Owen Gray, Leroy ‘Horsemouth’ Wallace and more.
The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari’s ‘Grounation’ is a massive
opus, a work of profound musical genius that tells the story of
Jamaica through music and words. The album is a cornerstone in the
history of reggae, a unique and other-worldly album the like of
which has never been made since.
Format & package: Limited box set
including three LP's, bonus 7" + 16 page magazine + art print +
interview insert.
Record label: Soul Jazz Records
Year of release: 2022 (reissued from
1972)
Tracks:
A1 Bongo Man
A2 Narration
B1 Narration Continued
B2 Mabrat (Passin Thru)
B3 Poem
B4 Four Hundred Years
C1 Poem
C2 Song
C3 Lumba
C4 Way Back Home
D1 Ethiopian Serenade
D2 Oh Carolina
D3 So Long
E1 Grounation
F1 Grounation Cont'd
Bonus 7" Single
A Blacker Black
B Grounation (Excerpt)
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