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mabrak - drum talk - dug out - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Reggae / Dub

1. Locks Talk
2. Ital Talk
3. Liquid Talk
4. Macka Talk
5. Serenade Talk
6. Fat Talk
7. Drum Talk
8. Roots Talk
9. Late-Late Talk
10. The Reverend Talking

Originally released in 1976, in paper inners only. Smartly sleeved in quintessential Dug Out style this time around � with an insert, including a recent interview with Mabrak.

Leroy Mattis' first drum was a plastic butter container. 'My mother wouldn't buy me a drum because back then the situation in Jamaica was very tense... In 1960 Jamaica was still an English colony, and the drum is a roots instrument.' Tommy McCook was living two doors down; during the first years of The Skatalites, Mattis would practise there. In 1970 he was National Junior Drumming Champion, with Count Ossie winning overall; four years later his ensemble battled in the Senior finals with the drummers of the Light Of Saba.
'Our group was initially called Genesis, it was a 7-piece drum group, but I changed the name to Mabrak, which means Thunder in Amharic. We knew that we were coming with a heavy sound.'
Experiments in percussion, in the middle of the night at Harry J's � funky versions of rhythms like Curly Locks, Too Late To Turn Back Now and Fattie Fattie, led by talking drums � beautifully mixed by King Tubby, who couldn't believe his ears.