{"id":799600,"date":"2019-09-19T09:59:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=887116"},"modified":"2019-09-19T09:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:59:29","slug":"lee-scratch-perry-previews-new-dub-album-with-enlightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/lee-scratch-perry-previews-new-dub-album-with-enlightened\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee \u2018Scratch\u2019 Perry Previews New Dub Album With \u2018Enlightened\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/LeeScratchPerry.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/reggae\/\" id=\"auto-tag_reggae\" data-tag=\"reggae\">Reggae<\/a> mastermind Lee \u201cScratch\u201d Perry unveiled an ethereal new song, \u201cEnlightened,\u201d from his upcoming dub album, <em>Heavy Rain<\/em>, set to arrive December 6th via On-U Sound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cEnlightened\u201d finds Perry in vintage form, burrowing into a deep groove from which he unspools a hypnotizing mix of guitars, synths, drums and vocals. The song is accompanied by a video, in which Perry paints a note to God on a balloon then sends it up to the heavens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Heavy Rain<\/em> follows Perry\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lee-scratch-perry-new-album-new-song-african-starship-800959\/\">most recent LP, <em>Rainford<\/em><\/a>, which was released in May. While the new LP mainly features dub re-works of <em>Rainford<\/em> tracks, <em>Heavy Rain<\/em> does boast a handful of original tunes as well. To help him flesh out the original&nbsp;<em>Rainford<\/em> sessions, Perry worked with co-producer Adrian Sherwood and several guests, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/brian-eno\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brian-eno\" data-tag=\"brian-eno\">Brian Eno<\/a>, who appears on a re-imagining of <em>Rainford&nbsp;<\/em>track \u201cMakumba Rock,\u201d which now boasts the sly title, \u201cHere Come the Warm Dreads,\u201d a nod to Eno\u2019s 1974 debut, <em>Here Come the Warm Jets<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Heavy Rain<\/em> also features contributions from reggae stalwart and Wailers trombonist Vin Gordon, who appears on \u201cRattling Bones and Crowns\u201d (a re-work of \u201cKill Them Dreams Money Worshippers\u201d) and \u201cCrickets in Moonlight\u201d (a re-work of \u201cCricket in the Moon\u201d). Perry and Sherwood also partnered on two original tracks, \u201cDreams Come True\u201d and \u201cAbove and Beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Perry will kick off a North American <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScratchLee\/status\/1171598758515302400\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">tour<\/a> tonight, September 19th, at the Cedar in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The run wraps September 29th at Foro Indie Rocks in Mexico City, though he\u2019ll also play a handful of <a href=\"http:\/\/subatomicsound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">West Coast dates<\/a> starting October 26th at Northern Delights in Hayfork, California.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lee-scratch-perry-new-album-heavy-rain-brian-eno-887116\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reggae mastermind Lee \u201cScratch\u201d Perry unveiled an ethereal new song, \u201cEnlightened,\u201d from his upcoming dub album, Heavy Rain, set to arrive December 6th via On-U Sound. \u201cEnlightened\u201d finds Perry in vintage form, burrowing into a deep groove from which he unspools a hypnotizing mix of guitars, synths, drums and vocals. The song is accompanied by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-799600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 05:26:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}