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Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Tales Of Mozambique DOUBLE LP
SKU: SJRLP325
Description:
UK import!
Following
on from the recent super-deluxe box set edition of The Mystic
Revelation of Rastafari's 'Grounation', Soul Jazz Records are
releasing a new edition of the group's celebrated 'Tales of
Mozambique'. This new limited-edition is released as a one-off
pressing purple vinyl double album. Sleeve design also comes as a
new purple version. Soul Jazz Records are
releasing Count Ossie and The Mystic Revelation’s seminal 1975
album Tales of Mozambique in an expanded double album, fully
remastered and with the inclusion of two bonus rare single-only
tracks, full sleevenotes, exclusive photographs and
interview.
Count Ossie is the central
character in the development of Rastafarian roots music, nowadays
an almost mythical and iconic figure. His importance in bringing
Rastafarian music to a populist audience is matched only by Bob
Marley’s promotion of the faith internationally in the
1970s. Count
Ossie’s drummers performed on the first commercially released
single to integrate Rastafarian traditional music with popular
music: the vocal group The Folkes Brothers’ groundbreaking song ‘Oh
Carolina’, recorded for producer Prince Buster in 1959. In 1966 his
drummers greeted the momentous arrival of Haile Selassie at
Kingston airport. His legendary jam sessions
up in his Rastafarian compound in the hills of Wareika, Kingston,
are famous for the many Jamaican musicians who attended including
The Skatalites players – Roland Alphonso, Don Drummond, Johnny
Moore, Lloyd Knibbs – and many others.
The Mystic Revelation of
Rastafari formed in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970, a union of Count
Ossie’s Rastafarian drummers – variously known as his African
Drums, Wareikas or his Afro-Combo – and the saxophonist Cedric Im
Brooks’ horns group, The Mystics. The Mystic Revelation of
Rastafari are the defining group in bringing authentic Rastafarian
rhythms into the collective consciousness of popular music, their
unique music is at once rooted in the deep traditions and rituals
of traditional drumming and chanting alongside a forward-thinking,
even avant-garde, artistry influenced by the likes of John
Coltrane, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders and other pioneering
African-American jazz artists radicalised and charged by the civil
rights movement of the 1960s. Tales of Mozambique is a
truly unique and fascinating ground-breaking
album.
Format &
package: double LP on purple vinyl
Record label: Soul Jazz Records
Year of release: 2023 (reissued from
1975)
Tracks:
A1 Sams Intro
A2 Tales Of Mozambique
A3 Selam Nna Wadada
B1 No Night In Zion
B2 I Am A Warrior
B3 Wicked Babylon
C1 Let Freedom Reign
C2 Lock Stock & Barrell
C3 Nigerian Reggae
D1 Run One Mile
D2 Rasta Reggae
D3 Samia
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