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PERFECT
French connection
Release date :
02-09-2010
Label :
Irie Vibrations
Tracklist :
1. Inreo rasta ground
2. Step away
3. Absolute blessings -...
4. Come on woman
5. Ain't no sunshine
6. Ruff time
7. Son of Jamaica
8. Family man
9. Marijuana we seh
10. Judgment morning
11. Mount Zion
12. Bobo special
13. Rebel in me
14. Mi nah cut my dread -...
15. 7 is the number - New...
16. Life - Featuring Zamunda
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REVIEW
Review written by François-Xavier Rougeot
on Friday, February 12th 2010 - 16 174 views
A year after the eclectic "Bord Dead with Life", packed with hits, and a few enticing singles (Nothing Matters Me, The Kind on the Happiness riddim...) later, the "Handcart Bwoy" delivers a third opus true to his style: disconcerting.
This "French Connection", with its generous tracklist (17 tracks), co-produced by the Austrian label Irie Vibrations Records, Sherkhan, a frenchy based in Jamaica (and already behind the excellent Hit Dem), and Chalice Palace, is a notch below its predecessor, which was so disorienting. It nevertheless keeps its main trait: its eclecticism, which has almost become, perhaps even more than his slightly tiresome gimmick, Greg Rose’s trademark: never where you expect him.
Like Sizzla, whom we find on the album’s showpiece (the single Absolute Blessings, on the Night Nurse riddim, released last July), Perfect never stops exploring musical universes (witness Sherkhan’s introductory patchwork), wedging his raspy timbre with more or less accuracy onto solid productions. Nyabinghi hip-hop (Judgement morning, on the Jinal riddim), enraged toasting (Bobo Special), a middling cover of the classic Ain’t No Sunshine and even rock-blues (Forget Everything, the album’s closer) blend into a rather trippy overall mood, like the whistling rap beat of Son of Jamaica, where the "child of Jamrock" pays tribute, between two medleys, to his brothers "Bob Marley, Kalonji, Usain Bolt / U-Roy, Dennis Brown and John Holt."
Experimental, "French Connection" will in any case remain one of the landmark LPs of 2010. Because it houses key tracks, including the unmissable 7 is the number, on a Wharfedale riddim (produced in 2005 by Tiger Records and Sherkhan) that has already proved itself (Nuh Matta What Dem Say by Sizzla, Tomorrow by Chrisinti...), or a Ruff Time (Yellow Paint riddim) that suits his verve. On the featuring front, more than a duet with Lutan Fyah (Mi nah cut my dread), which we would have liked to take off after a promising intro, it is above all the plaintive tones of Zamunda that we will remember, channelling Perfect’s energy wonderfully on a surprising Life.
Three years after his initial "Giddimani", Perfect thus carries on blazing his trail with enthusiasm. And there is no doubt that if he pretends to halt his run, out of breath, at the end of a Rebel in Me in which he strikes up the chorus of Tracy Chapman’s Talkin’ Bout a Revolution, the author of the superb Giddimani Questions is far from done giving free rein to his overflowing imagination. Fortune favours the bold. |
Il était temps.... Le CD est sortie en Novembre quand même. Et par ailleur il est plutot cool.
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