Jerry Dammers

Taken off the new album 'The Benevolence of Sister Mary Ignatius' LP - Buy it now at http://amzn.to/153Vov2

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Fu Man Chu (ft Bitty McLean)

Ali Baba

Mission Impossible

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

This little number was given to me as backing tracks by Jerry and I was asked to write something to go on top, so I did. This was done while The Special AKA was in its formative stages. To the best of my recollection personnel included Jerry on piano, Brad Bradbury on bass and John Shipley on guitar. It was a lot of fun to do, I can tell you. Jerry was a good pal of my pal Johnny Jostins and we were all either living in or from the Coventry scene, so everybody knew everybody, there was a lot of music around and it was a great time to be there. I was very lucky to get plopped in the middle of so many talented and really nice people. 

The Hit List (collaboration with Jerry Dammers)

Instrumental Song discarded from "Wandering Souls" album.

Soloist:

Eduard Fernàndez - Piano
David Carrasco - Tenor sax
Javier García - Guitar

Music written by: Javier García


The Oldians - Serenade in D minor

Vocal Song discarded from "Wandering Souls" album.

Vocals:
Leire Etxarri

Soloist:
Ricard Vinyets - Tenor sax
Javier García - Guitar

Music written by: Javier García

The Oldians - Before Sunset

Mr.T-Bone meets Jesse Wagner of the Aggrolites to share the love for Louis Prima in jamaican boogie style!

Recorded by Mauro Tavella at APM studios, Saluzzo (CN), Italy
Mixed and mastered by: Brian Dixon @ The Volcano Lounge, Los Angeles

Mr.T-Bone & The Young Lions feat Jesse Wagner (Aggrolites) - Angelina

Banarang

Guns Fever

Midnight Rider

"For you to know that the music helps carry on / Like you say a new day will bring us tomorrow..."  Shing02 and Nujabes Luv(sic).
“The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.” 
Sun Ra #jazz #hiphop #downtempo #electronic #ambient #chillhop #jazzhop #beats #reggae

The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra release their first single Fu Man Chu out 27th May, which is taken from the forthcoming album The Benevolence of Sister Mary Ignatius out 3rd June. http://amzn.to/153Vov2

Thirty five years ago, Lee Thompson introduced an entire generation to Ska music when Madness exploded from nowhere. Now, along with founder-member Mark Bedford, the two are moonlighting to introduce those authentic Ska and Reggae rhythms that burst out of Jamaica in the mid to late 1960’s to a whole new audience. Recorded at The Ironworks Studio in Brighton and co-produced by Mike Pelanconi aka Prince Fatty (A Tribe Called Quest, Kula Shaker, Graham Coxon), the finished record is a tribute to the long-lasting legacy of the music that inspired them as teenagers. Mike Pelanconi’s production perfectly re-creates the live Caribbean vibe on tracks inspired by the likes of Desmond Dekker and John Holt, alongside impressive versions of King Curtis’ Soul Serenade and Lalo Schifrin’s Mission Impossible theme. The album also benefits from the guidance of Dave Robinson, co-founder of Stiff Records (Madness, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury) and a man with a cast-iron connection to Lee Thompson and Madness. The lead single from the album is a clever and fitting cover of Dekker’s mighty, mystical Fu Man Chu, which is given a vocal transfusion from reggae hitmaker Bitty Mclean.

Ali Baba

Lee Thompson's Ska

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