Diverse Doctor \/ Mountain Melody \/ Black Lion Dub \/ Doctors Remedy<\/a><\/p>\nKiller second LP by Creation Rebel released on Hitrun Records in 1979. Plenty more Hitrun \/ ONU Sound material on this site if you care to search.<\/p>\n
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Creation Rebel\u2019s first album \u201cDub from Creation\u201d (APLP 9001) was released in March of 1978. The original band, featuring the drummer Eric \u201cFish\u201d Clarke, had been a studio outfit known as the Arabs, now primarily remembered for their work on the classic dub set \u201cCrytuff Dub Encounter Chapter 1\u201d (APLP 9002). The rhythm tracks for this album had been laid in Jamaica but the overdubs were worked up at the Gooseberry Studios in London. \u201cFish\u201d left for Jamaica when these sessions were complete, leaving the group of remaining musicians preparing for duty as Prince Far I\u2019s backing group for the DJ\u2019s tour of Europe scheduled to start later in the year.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAt this time the group comprised of \u201cLizard\u201d Logan (replacing the original bassist Clinton Jack), \u201cCrucial\u201d Tony on guitar, Clifton \u201cBigga\u201d Morrison on keyboards and Dr Pablo on melodica \u2013 which left an urgent vacancy on drums! Introduced to the band via Far I & Prince Records in Jamaica was a young man who had just completed his stint in the Jamaican army \u2013 Lincoln Valentine Scott a.k.a. \u201cStyle\u201d \u2013 who, over the ensuing few years was to become the most in-demand session drummer in reggae and key member of the Roots Radics whose rhythms would dominate the scene between the end of the golden period of roots through to the digital age of the mid-eighties and onwards. Scotty of course also went on to form the nucleus of Dub Syndicate who have since recorded extensively for Adrian Sherwood and On-U Sound.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIn late 1978 Sherwood and Creation Rebel recorded \u201cStarship Africa\u201d (ON-U LP 8). Not released for the first time until 1980 the album still stands alone musically in reggae where it has no cerebral equivalent. \u201cStarship Africa\u201d can be interpreted critically as forming the third point of a sonic triangle equilaterally occupied by the disparate output of Grateful Dead and Tangerine Dream. A magnet for Headz which retains its stoned power today, the album mixed the customary drum and bass with ambient washes and industrial noise \u2013 all within a minimal framework.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe album\u2019s story goes something like this. Just after the completion of the \u201cDub from Creation\u201d LP, the young Sherwood found himself with the basic Creation Rebel cutting a bunch of rhythms in the studio for a character with the wonderful name of DJ Superstar \u2013 a contemporary of the Mexicano, and also rapping on top of funked up reggae rhythms. Most of these tunes had bass lines from Tony Henry of Misty In Roots. Sherwood had hummed the bass lines and Tony has re-created them \u2013 hence the melodic quality of the bass lines on the finished tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWhat happened to these original tracks, who knows? But two years later Sherwood and Chris Garland, a friend from Cheltenham, were starting up a record company \/ agency in London\u2019s Soho with the strange name of 4D Rhythms. The agency side of the business was to run acts like Dexy\u2019s and Medium Medium, but they were also desperate to get some vinyl out on the street. In fact so desperate that Sherwood turned to the bunch of rhythms he had created a couple of years earlier, which up to that time he had considered quite \u201clame\u201d. They were up for transformation!<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nStyle Scott, in from Jamaica, did not so much overdub but played live over the original drum tracks from Charlie \u201cEskimo Fox\u201d. Freed from the stylistic requirements of the Roots Radics, Scotty was encouraged to loosen-up and lay rolls and splashes all over the tracks in his now inimitable style. Six percussionists, that is the rest of the musicians and engineers and whoever was around the studio appeared phasing in and out of one channel, creating a trippy treble effect \u2013 which hid the fact that they were all out of time. Amongst these players was Sucker, a friend of Del from Osibisa, who occasionally gives the percussion mix a rich calypso feel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWhen the album was being mixed Chris was urging Adrian to get madder \u201cmore reverb, more delay\u2026\u201d. But nothing could be so mad as the idea to mix the tracks blind. That is \u2013 turn over the quarter inch tape on the deck and feed in the effects and run the mix backwards, turn it back over for the finished product and somehow it made a crazy kind of sense. So much so that the mix was finished in one day! On the original vinyl there was just one track listed for each side. The title track was credited as a \u201csoundtrack from a forthcoming motion picture\u201d. One theory is that this little fantasy in the mind of Sherwood could very well have worked its way into the brain of one William Gibson, author of \u201cNeuromancer\u201d the classic debut cyberspace novel published in 1984. As reading that book now one can only hear Creation Rebel\u2019s \u201cStarship Africa\u201d pounding out of the in-flight sound system on board the dread-crewed space-tug Marcus Garvey.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe band\u2019s album \u201cClose Encounters Of The Third World\u201d (APLP 9008) on Hitrun had Prince Jammy credited with the mixdown, with Mr Sherwood referred to in the credits as \u201ctechnician\u201d. The release of the \u201cRebel Vibrations\u201d album (APLP 9004) in 1979 preceded \u201cStarship Africa\u201d by over a year. Both sets were instrumental dub affairs and can now be appreciated as largely experimental in their approach, described in an unusually articulate phase by Mr Sherwood as exploring:<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201c\u2026the unique possibilities of space in sound within the disciplined structures of rhythm, using bass line melodies and relying as much on the understated side of the overall result as on the overstated\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe remainder of 1979 found Creation Rebel as anchor band for Prince Far I, Jah Woosh, Prince Hammer and Bim Sherman, all were featured in a non-stop three hour show which took to the road as the \u201cRoots Encounter\u201d tour. However, with the arrival of the eighties the band\u2019s members were to tour less and less and eventually become disentangled as a creative outfit. Part of the explanation is, of course, that a working musician may have to go through many mutations in order to earn a living in the business. <\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nPart of this inevitable phenomenon for members of Creation Rebel was that individually they also contributed to the musical existence of a whole bunch of other bands, most of whom were associated with Adrian Sherwood and On-U Sound \u2013 the Maffia, New Age Steppers, Singers And Players, African Head Charge, Playgroup, Noah House Of Dread, Undivided Roots etc as well as the customary stints as backing musicians for visiting stars from Jamaica.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe \u201cPsychotic Jonkanoo\u201d album (ON-U LP 4) preceded the band\u2019s final set by less than a year (\u201cLows And Highs\u201d (ON-U LP 15) on Cherry Red Records in July 1982). The material consists of a fairly standard array of conscious style chants, delivered mostly by \u201cCrucial\u201d Tony in a militant style with harmonies from the band often reminiscent of Black Uhuru \u2013 especially on the opening track \u201cThe Dope\u201d, where we also have the added bonus of \u201cDeadly\u201d Headley\u2019s stylish sax intertwining with the vocal lines. The whole feel of the album is raised to a higher creative level by the arrangement and production which is clean, crisp and inventive \u2013 especially on the instrumental versions, \u201cAfrican Space\u201d features a wah-wah guitar in almost restrained fashion!<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThreat To Creation\u201d is not only the dub to the preceding \u201cChatti Mouth\u201d but also provided the title to the band\u2019s shared album with the New Age Steppers which appeared in November of the same year (ON-U LP 7). In fact the bass line for \u201cThreat to Creation\u201d slows down to provide the pulse for the most psyched out On-U dub of all time \u201cChemical Specialist\u201d [Rhythm 8], whereas the title track suddenly assumes a different identity altogether! \u201cMother Don\u2019t Cry\u201d features one Lydon on vocal harmony, a duty for which Johnny Rotten was not renowned, although he had previously assisted the great Dr Alimantado with similar input!<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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