Roots with Quality [Brilliant Box]Niney the Observer
Release Date: 01/27/2009
Original Release:
2009
# of Discs:
2
J&R Item # 1057295_CD
UPC # 054645414821
Label: VP Records
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Performer: Niney the Observer
Engineer: Barnabas; Sid Bucknor; Crucial Bunny; Errol Brown; Errol Thompson; Lee "Scratch" Perry; Peter Chemist; Phillip Smart; Scientist; Soljie Hamilton; Barnabas; Sid Bucknor; Crucial Bunny; Maxie; Errol Brown; Errol Thompson; King Tubby; Lee Perry; Peter Chemist; Phillip Smart; Scientist; Soljie Hamilton Producer: Niney The Observer; Winston "Niney" Holness; Christopher Chin; Fidel "Twice" Luna (Compilation) Distributor: Fontana Distribution Notes: Personnel: Cimarons, Soul Syndicate, Steely & Clevie, Aggrovators, Revolutionaries. Audio Mixers: Barnabas; Sidney Bucknor; Crucial Bunny; Maxie; Errol Brown ; Errol Thompson; King Tubby; Lee "Scratch" Perry; Lee Perry; Peter Chemist; Phillip Smart; Scientist; Solgie Hamilton. Audio Remasterer: Paul Shields. Audio Remixer: Winston Niney Holness. Liner Note Author: Daddy Lion Chandell. Recording information: Black Ark, Kingston, Jamaica; Chalk Farm, London, England; Channel One, Kingston, Jamaica; Dynamic Sounds, Kingston, Jamaica; Joe Gibbs, Kingston, Jamaica; King Tubby's, Kingston, Jamaica; Mixing Lab, Kingston, Jamaica; Randy's Studio 17, Kingston, Jamaica; Treasure Isle, Kingston, Jamaica. Author: Winston Holmes. Photographers: Marlon "Ajamu" Myrie; Julian Schmidt; Niney the Observer. Arranger: Niney the Observer. The double-CD anthology ROOTS WITH QUALITY surveys the career of legendary reggae producer Niney the Observer. Featuring 40 classic tracks, ROOTS WITH QUALITY collects Niney's work alongside a virtual who's who list of Jamaican music greats that includes Gregory Isaacs, Lee Perry, Michael Rose, Ken Boothe, Horace Andy, Dennis Brown, Leroy Smart, Jacob Miller, and Max Romeo, among others.
Record Collector (magazine) (p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he early 70s tracks on Disc One show Niney as a man with serious work to do: the rhythms apparently hewn out of the Jamaican bedrock..."
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