Keith Hudson - Flesh Of My Skin Blood Of My Blood (2021)
BAND/ARTIST: Keith Hudson
- Title: Flesh Of My Skin Blood Of My Blood
- Year Of Release: 2021
- Label: VP Records
- Genre: Reggae, Dub, Roots Reggae, Rockabilly
- Quality: MP3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 38:04
- Total Size: 96; 214 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
The dub dentist's deep blue 1974 reggae masterpiece bubbles up on a crucial remastered reissue, available for first time since the 2004 pressings on Mark Ernestus’ Basic Replay. Hudson's mood is tormented and dazed - making for a magnificently and deadly serious album that’s hauntingly unique, unmissable, unforgettable.
Renowned among the greatest roots reggae albums of all time, Hudson’s seminal side now sees a necessary, timely reissue. Still brimming with a dusky blues soul and intoxicating atmosphere, it followed a series of solid-gold productions for Ken Boothe, Delroy Wilson, John Holt, U-Roy and many others, and documents Hudson's removal from JA to London, New York studios and transatlantic audiences, inaugurating a sequence of albums - classics like Pick A Dub, Brand, Playing It Cool - which demonstrated his troubled experimentalism was so much better suited to the LP than the cardinal 7" reggae format.
Hailing from a musical family, Hudson trained as a dentist but found his calling in the studio, establishing his own label Imbidimts with a recording of Ken Boothe’s ‘Old Fashioned way’ before going on to work with legendary singers John Holt, Delroy Wilson and Alton Ellis, and toaster deejays U-Roy and Dennis Alcapone, who he produced in a trademark lean and mean, bad to the bone bass and drums style. ‘Flesh Of My Blood’ would come out on Brent Clarke’s Tottenham based Atra label, and marked an early highpoint of his work, melding strong soul influences with reggae proper in a supremely moody vibe that’s lost none of its late night pull.
We advise running straight to the flickering guitar licks and heads down bass of its definitive centrepiece ‘Darkest Night’, with its ohrwurming chorus for the strongest flavour, also found reduced to essentials on the dub with masterful touches of glaring synth, but anywhere you look, it’s pure gold. From the spectral electro-acoustics of ‘Hunting’ evoking midnight jungle atmospheres, to the lissom reggae soul of ‘Testing My Faith’ and the shimmering depths of his dubwise ’Nocturne (Talk Some Sense Version)’ it’s all cut of peerless cloth and holds treasures awaiting to be found.
1.01 - Keith Hudson - Hunting (2:20)
1.02 - Keith Hudson - Flesh Of My Skin (3:15)
1.03 - Keith Hudson - Blood Of My Blood (3:15)
1.04 - Keith Hudson - Testing My Faith (2:21)
1.05 - Keith Hudson - Fight Your Revolution (2:10)
1.06 - Keith Hudson - Darkest Night (2:52)
1.07 - Keith Hudson - Darkest Night Version (2:06)
1.08 - Keith Hudson - Talk Some Sense (2:57)
1.09 - Keith Hudson - My Nocturne (Talk Some Sense Version) (3:02)
1.10 - Keith Hudson - Treasures Of The World (2:24)
1.11 - Keith Hudson - My Nocturne (Treasures Of The World Version) (2:36)
1.12 - Keith Hudson - I Shall Be Released (2:25)
1.13 - Keith Hudson - No Friend Of Mine (2:41)
1.14 - Keith Hudson - Stabaliser (2:35)
1.15 - Keith Hudson - Hunting Version (1:03)
Renowned among the greatest roots reggae albums of all time, Hudson’s seminal side now sees a necessary, timely reissue. Still brimming with a dusky blues soul and intoxicating atmosphere, it followed a series of solid-gold productions for Ken Boothe, Delroy Wilson, John Holt, U-Roy and many others, and documents Hudson's removal from JA to London, New York studios and transatlantic audiences, inaugurating a sequence of albums - classics like Pick A Dub, Brand, Playing It Cool - which demonstrated his troubled experimentalism was so much better suited to the LP than the cardinal 7" reggae format.
Hailing from a musical family, Hudson trained as a dentist but found his calling in the studio, establishing his own label Imbidimts with a recording of Ken Boothe’s ‘Old Fashioned way’ before going on to work with legendary singers John Holt, Delroy Wilson and Alton Ellis, and toaster deejays U-Roy and Dennis Alcapone, who he produced in a trademark lean and mean, bad to the bone bass and drums style. ‘Flesh Of My Blood’ would come out on Brent Clarke’s Tottenham based Atra label, and marked an early highpoint of his work, melding strong soul influences with reggae proper in a supremely moody vibe that’s lost none of its late night pull.
We advise running straight to the flickering guitar licks and heads down bass of its definitive centrepiece ‘Darkest Night’, with its ohrwurming chorus for the strongest flavour, also found reduced to essentials on the dub with masterful touches of glaring synth, but anywhere you look, it’s pure gold. From the spectral electro-acoustics of ‘Hunting’ evoking midnight jungle atmospheres, to the lissom reggae soul of ‘Testing My Faith’ and the shimmering depths of his dubwise ’Nocturne (Talk Some Sense Version)’ it’s all cut of peerless cloth and holds treasures awaiting to be found.
1.01 - Keith Hudson - Hunting (2:20)
1.02 - Keith Hudson - Flesh Of My Skin (3:15)
1.03 - Keith Hudson - Blood Of My Blood (3:15)
1.04 - Keith Hudson - Testing My Faith (2:21)
1.05 - Keith Hudson - Fight Your Revolution (2:10)
1.06 - Keith Hudson - Darkest Night (2:52)
1.07 - Keith Hudson - Darkest Night Version (2:06)
1.08 - Keith Hudson - Talk Some Sense (2:57)
1.09 - Keith Hudson - My Nocturne (Talk Some Sense Version) (3:02)
1.10 - Keith Hudson - Treasures Of The World (2:24)
1.11 - Keith Hudson - My Nocturne (Treasures Of The World Version) (2:36)
1.12 - Keith Hudson - I Shall Be Released (2:25)
1.13 - Keith Hudson - No Friend Of Mine (2:41)
1.14 - Keith Hudson - Stabaliser (2:35)
1.15 - Keith Hudson - Hunting Version (1:03)
Year 2021 | Reggae | World | FLAC / APE | Mp3
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