Great ape

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Great ape
Studio album by The Upsetters

Publication
(s)

1976

Label (s) Island Records

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Dub , reggae

Title (number)

10

running time

about 38 minutes

Super Ape is an album of the band The Upsetters . As a composer , arranger , producer and sound engineer was Lee "Scratch" Perry responsible. Stylistically, Super Ape can be assigned to reggae or dub .

admission

Super Ape was in 1976 in the Black Ark studios in Jamaica in the following line- added :

  • Earl “Chinna” Smith ( guitar )
  • Boris Gardiner ( bass )
  • Mikey “Boo” Richards ( drums )
  • Anthony “Benbow” Creary (drums)
  • Keith Sterling ( piano )
  • Bobby Ellis, Richard “Dirty Harry” Hall, Herman Marquis, Vin Gordon, Egbert Evans ( wind instruments )
  • Noel “Scully” Simms ( percussion )
  • Lee "Scratch" Perry (percussion)

title

Ten songs can be heard on Super Ape :

  1. Zions Blood ( Perry )
  2. Croaking Lizard (Perry)
  3. Black Vest (Perry)
  4. Underground (Perry)
  5. Curly Dub (Perry)
  6. Dread Lion (Perry)
  7. Three in One (Perry)
  8. Solitaire (Perry)
  9. Dub along (Perry)
  10. Super Ape (Perry)

Publications

The album was first released as Scratch, the Super Ape in 1976 on the Jamaican label Upsetter as an LP . With a changed tracklist it was re-released in the same year by the Island label as Super Ape .

In 1978 the Upsetters brought out a sequel to Super Ape with Return of the Super Ape .

reception

In the Allmusic music database , Super Ape has five stars out of five.

A reviewer of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra took Super Ape as an opportunity to Lee "Scratch" Perry as one of the "craziest and most experimental producers in music history" and " King Kong Reggae" to describe.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Upsetters: Super Ape (Liner Notes)
  2. ↑ a b www.roots-archives.com: Super Ape (production details ) ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.roots-archives.com
  3. ↑ www.discogs.com: Return of the Super Ape (release details)
  4. ↑ www.allmusic.com: Super Ape (review)
  5. ↑ www.br.de: Lee “Scratch” Perry (portrait)