A quick one again, but what a tune!
Tonight feature has been long enough in my want list and I was very happy to finally get my hand on a good original copy of it.
This is a self production by the great, still quite unknown, Mighty Abijans.
For a full review of the band's output, I invite you to have a look at the nice post Digikiller did when reissuing almost all of their discography recently, see here : http://digikillerrecords.blogspot.fr/2014/03/untamed-history-of-fashioneers-mighty.html
I also urge you, if you like it as much as I do, to go and get yourself a copy of it, to support the artists and those who reissue these top notch tunes.
Here is a link directly to reissue label :
http://dkr.bigcartel.com/category/swing-bird
Well enough promotion for the repress, this is the original bizness and it's a tough 7" nugget. As Honest Jon's put it : "defiant, sublime roots on a dreadnought rhythm, with full dub. Jaiq Sterling, Leonard Billings, Kingsley Irons and Glenford McLeggan with the Roots Radics at Channel One, in the early 1980s. Killer."
Here is what I understand of the lyrics, corrections are welcome!
Ever since I been born
Loneliness and poverty
Have been the ...and friends everyday
So no bother with your pitty
For I no licky licky
And no bother with your lasso
For I no su su su so (I no whisper)
Untamed!
And you can't (kill we?)
When you're down and need a friend
Ain't no one to take your hand
Leave it to the dog(?)
And there's a lot to take in
Fullfill I...no heart fe get
But I was born in the wild open
The sun, the rain and cold
Them pression can't take me in
So no bother with your pitty
For I no licky licky
And no bother with your lasso
For I no su su su so (I no whisper)
Untamed! (I'm wild so wild)
...
At the end a DJ seems to take over but then the song vanishes quickly (would be interesting to get the DJ version...does anyone know if it is the same that appears on the 12" issued later on N1 Rock label?).
Discogs mentions a 12" issue on Swing Bird but I have never seen even a picture of it, does it exists?
Version is classy Roots Radics, best Channel 1 period, with guitar (with heavy effect) and organ in and out of the mix, some cool percussions in the back, well balanced dub!
Top draw stuff!
As always, click on the download link under the labels (I say blue but I just noticed that it finally appears red on the blog...) to listen to the full song and version.
More to come soon hopefully,
Peace to y'all
Ben
