Ben Music Vault: Canadian reggae murder! Black Society

Hello There,

One of the good things with social media is that you easily get to know new people with the same passion as yourself, in my case, roots nuggets!

So today I came to chat with a nice fellow who reminded me of this one tune.
As carnival time is coming, I thought it's a good reason to share one of the more obscure yet fantastic production for the great Oswald Creary's Half Moon label.

Here you will find a little more about this canadian label (one of the 3 greats with Summer Records and later King Culture) : http://reggaelicious.pbworks.com/w/page/8799800/Half%20Moon

So, tonight feature is a beautiful tune by Bongo Ossie & The Moon Lights aka Super 8 Corporation and titled Black Society.

This is actually a very rare piece of wax and I had the chance to grab a copy a few years earlier, in near mint condition, from a guy in Florida who had bought a dead stock of 3 or 4 copies.

The tune is dark and roots as it gets. Nice skank from rythmn guitar, plenty of echoes on solo guitar which sounds like twinkling star (sounds a little bit like some Bullwackies productions...), plaintive singing, elusive but nice bass line and something like a ghost sounding organ. Roooooots!
The lyrics go like this :

A thousand miles in Babylon
I heard a voice crying loud
Take these chains from my heart
And set black people free
Long long time since I am here
I should have learned by now
You took me away and you put me in jail
From Black Society
I don't know I don't know
What you want from me
You take me away and you put me in jail
From Black Society

As a bonus (this tune you may find on the excellent Half Moon comp that Honest Jons and PK put together some years ago : http://honestjons.com/shop/artist/Half_Moon/release/Glory_Dominion_Majesty_Power) here you get the superb dub with much more echo to drive you insane.