« Chaque titre de l’album est un bout du voyage. Les ambiances contrastées racontent l’univers de l’équipage. Certaines chansons sont enjouées, rythmées, tumultueuses, légères comme leurs amitiés, d’autres sont plus sombres, plus profondes, comme le doute qui parfois les assaille. Une autre est un hymne à l’amour fraternel, aux rencontres fortuites et aux merveilleux hasards que la vie met sur nos routes. Toutes symbolisent l’élan et la passion à l’origine de ce projet. Un cri de ralliement : la musique avant tout, la musique qui vit, qui groove, qui blesse, qui chante et qui fait bouger la tête et le corps. » - Black Ship

08 Beautiful Day

Atlanta based producer Matt Mansfield aka Piper Street Sound has created a collaborative EP of instrumental Reggae music with legendary Reggae guitarist Andy Bassford (Toots and the Maytals, Dennis Brown, Horace Andy, Culture, Roots Radics). 'Black Eyed Peace' follows 2020’s 'Small Plate / Rid Them EP' but puts a focus on guitar melodies masterfully executed by Maestro Bassford. The songs still bear Piper Street’s customary horn heavy and dub infused style but move into some new territory; elements of Rocksteady abound, major keys now bounce along side their minor key brethren, Yaya Brown’s akete drumming prods and propels the rhythms carved by the ultra tight drumming of Brian Daggett and the bass of Mansfield, Chris Case’s keyboard mastery blazes along side the horns of Will Scruggs, Jonathan Lloyd and Dashill Smith. 

'Black Eyed Peace' is a collaborative affair pieced together gradually over the course of the pandemic, the horn sessions miraculously took place the week before everything shut down, and all other elements were recorded in home studios and electronically gathered by Matt, who acted as track-herd and trail guide, scouting ahead, blazing a path while shooting fearful glances behind at the specter of disease and death that shadowed the procession through the forest of fear.

Piper Street Sound found a sacred glade, a clearing in the forest with room for hope, and got to work building a fire with his fellows, over which to craft this musical brew, heavily dosed with dubwise analog effects, shimmering and splashing spring reverbs, rich and hearty tape delays, the guitar mastery of a musical hero floats atop as frothy foam, and love for humanity is the base malt. Here it is. Won’t you take a sip?

Download/Vinyl: https://lnk.to/blackeyedpeace

Credits:

Drums - Brian Daggett
Bass - Matt Mansfield
Akete Drum - John Arthur Brown
Percussion - Matt Mansfield
Guitars - Andy Bassford, James Keane, Matt Mansfield
Keys - Christo Case, Matt Mansfield
Tenor Sax - Will Scruggs
Trombone - Jonathan Lloyd
Trumpet - Dashill Smith

Horns Recorded by Spencer Garn and Brent Hopkins at Diamond Street Studios in Atlanta
Produced and Mixed by Matt Mansfield
Mastered by Joel Hatstat
Songs written by Matt Mansfield and Andy Bassford
Horns Arranged by Jonathan Lloyd
Executive Producer - The inner fire of human consciousness that you may know as Jah or that may remain unnamed. 

www.andybassford.com
www.piperstreetsound.com

Black Eyed Peace

Stonesteady ft. Andy Bassford

Surf Tune

I'll Be There

Spin I'm In

Feeling Myself

Stay

✍️ الأبيات للشاعر أبي عبادة الوليد بن عبيد الطائي المشهور بـ البحتري (206–284هـ / 821–897م)، أحد كبار شعراء العصر العباسي.
عُرف برقة أسلوبه حتى لُقّب شعره بـ «سلاسل الذهب»، ويُعَدُّ مع المتنبي وأبي تمام من أعلام القرن الثالث الهجري (التاسع الميلادي).
نشأ في بلاط الخلفاء العباسيين (مثل المتوكل) وكان مقرَّبًا من وزرائهم وأمرائهم، وخلّف ديوانًا ضخمًا جمع بين الغزل والمديح والوصف والحكمة.إعادة تقديم معاصرة

طيف الحبيب ألم من أعدائه  
وبعيد موقع أرضه وسمائه  

جزع اللوى عجلا ووجه مسرعا  
من حزن أبرقه إلى جرعائه  

يهدي السلام وفي اهتداء خياله  
من بعده عجب وفي إهدائه  

لو زار في غير الكرى لشفاك من  
خبل الغرام ومن جوى برحائه  

وضياء وجه لو تأمله امرؤ  
صادي الجوانح لارتوى من مائه


طيف الحبيب

Urban dancehall and reggae influenced dub music from England
Preorder 02.26.21 - Release date 03.03.21 
Distributed by VPal Music - available on all digital platforms

Peel it down

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