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Hybrid-SACD (Dual-Layer)
1. Positive Vibration
2. Roots, Rock, Reggae
3. Johnny Was
4. Cry To Me
5. Want More
6. Crazy Baldhead
7. Who The Cap Fit
8. Night Shift
9. War
10. Rat Race
When “Rastaman Vibration” was released in America in 1976, the LP achieved something that some in the music industry at the time considered almost impossible: it brought Bob Marley's album into the top ten – right in the middle of the disco and mainstream rock waves. 1975 had already been a triumphant year for Bob Marley. The album “Natty Dread” contained some of his strongest songs (the first to be written after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the band) and delivered the Top 40 hit “No Woman No Cry.” The follow-up album “Live”, a documentary of Marley's performance at London's Lyceum, also brought the singer his long-awaited breakthrough in England. After completing the tour, Marley and his band returned to Jamaica and recorded the tracks for “Rastaman Vibration” at the legendary studios of Harry Johnson and Joe Gibbs. Sylvan Morris and Errol Thompson, two Jamaican sound engineers of the highest caliber, were at the mixing desk.
Despite the upbeat title track and the optimism exuded by “Roots, Rock, Reggae”, “Rastaman Vibration” contains some of Marley's most intense images of oppression, paranoia and despair. Tracks like “Who The Cap Fit” and “Crazy Baldhead” are performed by the Wailers with urgent intensity, while Marley's brutal visions echo from his own church choir, the I-Threes. More than four decades later, neither Marley's music nor his message have lost any of their edge. Of the songs on “Rastaman Vibration”, “War” remains one of the most powerful statements of the singer's career. Although essentially a direct transcription of a speech by Haile Selassie, Marley adapts the lyrics exquisitely to his music.
Analogue Productions now honors this masterful album with a sonically outstanding hybrid SACD, based on Ryan K. Smith's remastering of the original tapes at Sterling Sound, offering a previously unheard sound quality of this reggae classic.
