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How many times have I been asked to review a new Lee Perry album? I stopped counting. My articles actually always had the same content. Here's the short version: important producer, interesting backings and the less you hear from Perry, the better. It's kind of tragic. Lee Perry, brilliant producer of the 1970s, innovative through and through, always a little crazy, but that's why it's also brilliant. A hero in music history, and rightly so. But instead of quietly enjoying his reputation, he decided to release countless more albums after the hand-held destruction of his legendary Black Ark studio - each one worse than the other. Nonetheless, the “Lee Scratch Perry” myth outshines all the inadequacies of his music from this side of the 1970s. Time and again, producers (not infrequently prominent) from a wide variety of music genres offered him sensational collaborations. And these always proceeded according to the same pattern: the producers went to great lengths either to reproduce the magical Black Ark sound as much as possible, or to create crossover tracks between their respective genre and Dubthat Perry could then, uh, “sing” about. However, Perry consistently avoided melody and content. With a little cynicism one could say that the DubVersions have always been the best thing about these albums.

Now we are dealing with a new Perry plant again. The main producer this time is perhaps no less legendary Adrian Sherwood. He has an outstanding position because it was he who wrested his only really good album “Time Boom X De Devil Dead” from Perry in 1987, around ten years after the Black Ark collapse. Even after that, the two found each other again and again, as they do now. The new work, "Rainford“(On-U sound), was created in different places around the world over the last two years and is marketed as the 83 year old's“ most personal ”work. Titled after his birth name, Rainford allegedly tells Hugh Perry about his life. However, I hardly manage to understand hi

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