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Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry announces new album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 21 April 2011
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has announced that he will release a new album, entitled ‘Rise Again’, through MOD Technologies on 16 May. Produced by Bill Laswell, the album also features TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Ethiopian singer Gigi Shibabaw, and Jamaican rapper Hawkman, amongst others.
Laswell told Bass Player magazine last December: “I really should have connected with Scratch a long time ago. A lot of it is just about a contact. [Matisyahu bassist] Josh Werner [who also appears on the record] was playing in Scratch’s band, and I had worked with Josh. He suggested trying to create something with Scratch, and I was certain no record company in their right mind would touch it, which is why we’re doing it ourselves. It’s a real production, and really conscious of bringing out Lee Perry. It’s his presence that keeps this thing moving. Is the whole idea crazy? That’s part of what makes it worth doing”.
A documentary about Perry, ‘The Upsetter’, narrated by Benicio Del Toro, is also due out later this year.
