Lee Scratch Perry new EP " Rainford "out May 10th via On-U Sound

On-U Sound are very proud to announce the return of the mighty upsetter to the label. 9 brand new tracks recorded in Jamaica, Brazil and London with longtime friend and collaborator Adrian Sherwood at the controls. “It's the most intimate album Lee has ever made, but at the same time the musical ideas are very fresh. I'm extremely proud of what we've come up as a piece of work". - A.M.S

Without hyperbole, Lee Perry is a musical titan with few equals, the man Brian Enohas called “one of the geniuses of recorded music”, a massively influential Grammy-winning producer and serial collaborator with everyone from Keith Richards to David Lynch, The Congos to The Clash, Junior Murvin to The Beastie Boys.

Adrian Sherwood has been an influential and innovative figure on the UK reggae and independent label scene for nearly 40 years, not to mention being invited to apply his mixing desk sound science to artists as varied as Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Sinéad O'Connor, Primal Scream, Blur, The Fall and Roots Manuva.

Perry’s friendship with Sherwood stretches back to the mid-1980s, and a fortuitous meeting brokered by underground broadcasting legend Steve Barker. This led to the creation of On-U classics such as Time Boom X De Devil Dead and From The Secret Laboratory, as well as Lee gracing Dub Syndicate records with some vital vocal injections. This new set is the culmination of over two years work, recorded in three different countries by a crack crew of brilliant musicians. Determined to craft a work of lasting power, Sherwood likens to the album to the work that Rick Rubin did with Johnny Cash on the American Recordings series, a deeply personal work (tha album title refers to Lee’s birth name) and arguably the strongest batch of original material that Perry has released for many years.

From the atmospheric field recording and wah-wah guitar of album opener “Cricket On The Moon”, to the gothic cello embellishment on “Let It Rain”, the chopped-and-compressed horn section of “Makumba Rock”, to the layered, carefully arranged backing vocals like a heavenly chorus throughout the record, this is an album with true love, care and attention poured into it’s every groove. It culminates in the truly extraordinary “Autobiography Of The Upsetter”, in which Scratch narrates the story of his life from growing up on a plantation in 1930s colonial Jamaica to becoming a worldwide musical superstar.

Tracklist 'Rainford':

1. Cricket on the Moon

2. Run Evil Spirit

3. Let it Rain

4. House Of Angels

5. Makumba Rock

6. African Starship

7. Kill Them Dreams Money Worshippers

8. Children Of The Light

9. Autobiography Of The Upsetter