LEE 'SCRATCH' PERRY & FRIENDS - "Open The Gate" 3xLPLee 'Scratch' Perry & Friends Open The Gate 3xLP (Music On Vinyl, 2023) "The Jamaican dub pioneer Lee 'Scratch' Perry had the ability to attract some of the best musicians around to indulge in their fantasies. He knew how to draw the best out of those who wandered by their studios. The 1989 compilation album Open The Gate is a collection of the 12" versions Lee Perry did in the late Black Ark period. For the recordings, he gathered some of the best

One thing Straw Man Army shares with Kaleidoscope is a sense of rhythmic sophistication and inventiveness

following 2020’s “If The Worm Turns It Could Turn Ugly”

Chuck Hatcher

Imagine an off-road

he kept chipping away

through 100 watt Marshall half stacks

and the windows are where the doors should be”

or overhearing someone speaking

UK bass hybrids

Outside the bounds of workaday drudgery and the limits of your own solitary skin

particularly the aforementioned "Die Rock" and the leadoff single/video "Inhuman Nature

and Traxman