{"id":2441112,"date":"2019-02-27T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=800959"},"modified":"2019-02-27T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T18:30:39","slug":"lee-scratch-perry-preps-new-lp-issues-trippy-song-african-starship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/lee-scratch-perry-preps-new-lp-issues-trippy-song-african-starship\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee \u2018Scratch\u2019 Perry Preps New LP, Issues Trippy Song \u2018African Starship\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/8511204hW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reggae innovator Lee \u201cScratch \u201cPerry will release a new album, <em>Rainford<\/em>, on May 10th via On-U Sound Records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The songwriter-producer previewed the nine-track set with the woozy new track \u201cAfrican Starship,\u201d which finds Perry speak-singing over a slowed-down dub groove laced with wah-wah licks, fluttering flute and moaning, muted trumpet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 82-year-old Perry\u2014best known for his experimental mixing techniques and collaborations with artists like Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Clash and Beastie Boys\u2014recorded <em>Rainford<\/em> in Jamaica, Brazil and London with producer Adrian Sherwood, one of his longtime collaborators. \u201cIt\u2019s the most intimate album Lee has ever made,\u201d Sherwood said of the project in a statement. \u201cBut at the same time the musical ideas are very fresh. I\u2019m extremely proud of what we\u2019ve come up as a piece of work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Perry has issued dozens of albums under various names, including several with his early studio band, the Upsetters. <em>Rainford<\/em> follows 2017\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lee-scratch-perry-reworks-dub-classic-super-ape-for-new-album-203144\/\"><em>Super Ape Returns to Conquer<\/em><\/a>, a reworking of the 1976 Upsetters LP, <em>Super Ape<\/em>. He<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0will launch a U.K. tour on March 15th in Kingsbridge, England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lee-scratch-perry-new-album-new-song-african-starship-800959\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reggae innovator Lee \u201cScratch \u201cPerry will release a new album, Rainford, on May 10th via On-U Sound Records. The songwriter-producer previewed the nine-track set with the woozy new track \u201cAfrican Starship,\u201d which finds Perry speak-singing over a slowed-down dub groove laced with wah-wah licks, fluttering flute and moaning, muted trumpet. The 82-year-old Perry\u2014best known for [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 17:52:19","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}