tropenat på repeat

Vi var forbi Jamaica-produceren Lee Scratch Perry i går. Her endnu en af de simrende produktioner fra hans guldæra i Black Ark Studio i Kingston, The Heptones’ 1977-single ‘Mystery Babylon’. Perry brændte iøvrigt selv Black Ark-studiet ned i 1979, efter sigende for at fordrive mørke ånder: “There was some bad energy because my intention was to help poor people and most of the people were in poverty. So I was taking their poverty and giving them my energy, but they remained poor. All I wanted to take from them was their demons. Burning up the studio was a way of burning the demon, burning up the bad luck that had come to the people who lived in Jamaica. There is a Jewish saying that if you don’t burn the demon, maybe you die instead of him”...

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