Track Listing
DISC 1: REEL I DUB ORGANISER:
1. Dub Revolution Part 1 - (with Lee Perry & The Upsetters)
2. One Step Forward - (with Max Romeo)
3. One Step Dub - (with The Upsetters)
4. Vampire - (with Devon Irons)
5. Vamp a Dub - (with The Upsetters)
6. Sufferer's Time - (with The Heptones)
7. Sufferer's Dub - (with The Upsetters)
8. Sufferer's Heights - (with Junior Dread)
9. Don't Blame on I - (with The Congos)
10. Much Smarter - (with The Meditations)
11. Much Smarter Dub - (with The Upsetters)
12. Life Is Not Easy - (with The Meditations)
13. Life Is Not Easy Dub - (with The Upsetters)
14. Tedious - (with Junior Murvin)
15. War in a Babylon - (with Max Romeo)
16. Revelation Dub - (with The Upsetters)
17. Mr. President - (with The Heptones/Jah Lion)
18. Chase the Devil - (with Max Romeo)
DISC 2: REEL II DUB SHEPHERD:
1. Dreadlocks in the Moonlight - (with Lee Perry)
2. Dread at the Mantrols - (with Mikey Dread)
3. In These Times - (with Errol Walker)
4. In These Times Dub - (with The Upsetters)
5. Norman - (with Max Romeo/The Upsetters)
6. Police & Thieves - (with Junior Murvin)
7. Magic Touch - (with Glen DaCosta)
8. Soldier & Police War - (with Jah Lion)
9. Grumblin' Dub - (with The Upsetters)
10. Bad Weed - (with Junior Murvin)
11. John Public - (with Errol Walker)
12. John Public Version - (with Errol Walker/Enos Barnes)
13. Roots Train - (with Junior Murvin/Dillinger)
14. No Peace - (with The Meditations)
15. No Peace Dub - (with The Upsetters)
16. Rasta Train - (with Raphael Green/Dr Alimantado)
17. Party Time Part 2 - (with The Upsetters)
DISC 3: REEL III DUB ADVENTURER:
1. Vibrate On - (with Augustus Pablo/The Upsetters)
2. Vibrator - (with The Upsetters)
3. Bird in Hand - (with The Upsetters)
4. Congoman - (with The Congos)
5. Dyon Anasawa - (with The Upsetters/Full Experience)
6. Rastaman Shuffle - (with The Upsetters)
7. Why Must I (Version) - (with The Heptones)
8. Make up Your Mind - (with The Heptones)
9. Closer Together - (with The Upsetters Revue/Junior Murvin)
10. Groovy Situation - (with Keith Rowe)
11. Groovy Dub - (with The Upsetters)
12. To Be a Lover (Lord Have Mercy) - (with George Faith)
13. Soul Fire - (with Lee Perry)
14. Curly Locks - (with Lee Perry)
15. Feast of the Passover - (with The Congos)
16. Roast Fish & Corn Bread - (with Lee Perry)
17. Corn Fish Dub - (with The Upsetters)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Jah Lion, Junior Murvin, Max Romeo, Mikey Dread, The Congos, The Meditations, The Upsetters | | Producer: | Lee "Scratch" Perry | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Lee Perry (vocals, percussion); The Heptones, Max Romeo, Junior Murvin, Earl George Faith, The Meditations, The Congos, Errol Walker, Davon Irons, Raphael Green, Winston "Dr. Alimantado" Thompson, Lester "Dillinger" Bullocks, Pat "Jah Lion" Francis, Michael "Mikey Dread" Campbell, Enos Barnes, Junior Dread, Marcia Griffiths, Cynthia Schloss, Full Experience (vocals); Earl "Chinna" Smith, Geoffery Chung, Robert "Billy Boy" Johnson, Phill (guitar); Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall (saxophone); Vin "Don D. Jr." (trombone); Theophieius Beckford (piano); Augustus Pablo (melodica); Winston Wright (organ); Robbie Shakespeare (bass); Mikey "Boo" Richards, Lowell "Sly" Dunbar (drums); Noel "Skully" Simms, Uziah "Sticky" Thompson (percussion).
Recorded at The Black Ark, Kingston, Jamaica between 1975 and 1979.
Black Ark was the name of a one-room shack studio that Lee Perry built in the garden of his home at 5 Cardiff Crescent in the Washington Gardens suburb of Kingston, Jamaica. Beginning in 1974, he helped revolutionize the use of a studio as a musical instrument, while making some of the most sumptuous and grooving reggae records of that decade. ARKOLOGY documents only a thin slice of his studio's rich history, but even that slice is enough to overstuff three discs with hits, dubs and previously unheard treats.
Here you'll find the obvious choices that should be a part of any good reggae collection: international hits like Max Romeo's "War Ina Babylon," Junior Murvin's "Police And Thieves," George Faith's "To Be A Lover," Perry's own "Curly Locks," among many others. But you'll also find the ultra-rare dub versions of these tracks, in their brazenly deconstructed state by Perry and his faithful and ever-evolving band of Upsetters. ARKOLOGY serves multiple purposes and satisfies mightily over its three installments.
Editorial Reviews
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...Perry was crazy like George Clinton, drawing dynamic performances from a fluid cast of singers and sidemen and camouflaging his calls for social change and spiritual retribution in cool licks and cartoonish mysticism...
Rolling Stone
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...ARKOLOGY...unearths what is ancient history in reggae terms and yet which still sounds as if it comes from maybe 100 years hence...
Q (05/01/1997)
9 (out of 10) - ...reveals Perry's alchemical use of ramshackle studio technology. Most cuts swim in a haze of sacred reverb froth, displaying a jarring, third-world `musique concrete,' with sound effects ranging from leonine roars to acid house-style bleeps and buzzes...
Spin (08/01/1997)
...the most prescient producer...ever to emerge from Jamaica...
Vibe (10/01/1997)
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