On a sunny day, there is often an
unexpected, deep joy involved in stumbling across good reggae gold.
Nucleus Roots is such a sound. It's a pure reggae roots sound from
Manchester, England fronted by Paul Lush. This sound comes straight
from Partial Records reggae label run by my mate Liam McGurk who is
passionate about everything reggae. I think his inner life must just
feel like one big ball of yellow sunshine. The label is free from
any whizzy graphics or aggressive marketing. It's sense of identity
is parred down and committed to vinyl. You don't have to be a
“reggae vinyl head” to love this label (the music is available on
other formats), but it helps. There is almost a sense of White
label-ness about the way it let's the music sell itself.
This track from Nucleus Roots is called
“Deep Roots” and features Don Hartley. You can't get much
groovier than this. It's recently been released on 10 inch vinyl
that includes four mixes of the track. FOUR mixes. You can choose a
different one for each day of the weekend and believe me a listen or
two of this track will have you taking four day weekends as standard.
There is nothing over flouncy or bone shaking about this track. It
is was it is and it is Nucleus roots featuring Don Hartley and “Deep
Roots”
Now here's a thing. Sound people, that
is people that work in the artistic and technical field of sound, are
often in bands. Uber aware of the effect of music on so many levels
of our pyschological well being, soundies often take to instruments
like clouds take to rain (don't analyse that simile too closely, just
go with it). This band, Foley Artist, are no exception. You
probably know that foley artists are the people that dub on those
effective and often sub-concious sounds in films by stamping on
gravel, hooting horns and generally having fun with sound. The band
Foley Artist definitely has that sense of of the excitement and
trickery of sound. They are based in the South of England and are
three guys that take you on a journey.
This track, “Gravity”, is a six
minute landscape of rock. I have no idea what genre or style you
would call this so I'm just going to let you spend your time
listening to the track, rather than reading my vague ramblings about
it. It's spiky and quirky then flowing and harmonious. You'll
come to your own conclusions about it I'm sure, but try not to just
dip on and out of it and give the whole project a listen from start
to end if you can.. Let Foley Artist take you on a trip with
“Gravity”
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