Congos

Heart Of The Congos

Label: 17 North Parade

Genre: Freestyle / Nu Jazz / Funk / Afro

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State-of the-art re-mastered for 2022 release is the Lee Perry produced Black Ark classic album! - The Congos started out as the duo of Cedric Myton and Roy Johnson and their debut longplayer was "Heart Of The Congos" originally released in 1977.

A few facts and quotes:

Rolling Stone - 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time (From the Beatles to Nas and beyond): #82 "Heart of the Congos"

"The best roots reggae album ever..." (Lloyd Bradley)

"Heart Of The Congos is, together with Bob Marley and the Wailers' Natty Dread, Burning Spear's Marcus Garvey and The Mighty Diamonds' Right Time, a defining statement of Jamaican vocal group artistry in the seventies. By virtue of its thematic coherence, superb musicianship, beautiful vocals, it is exemplary roots music of the highest order. It is also the most perfectly realised album to come from Lee Perry's Black Ark." (Steve Barrow)