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George Faith
To Be A Lover
(Mango, 1977)
Lee Perry-produced trip-delay of dubular sci-fi soul covers; phasers set to stun.
Schooled at the Kingston talent contests of the late ’60s, by the early ’70s Earl George Lawrence was but one of thousands of small-time Jamaican vocalists attempting to make it big in an industry rife with piracy, double-cross and ill-fortune. However, in 1970, Lawrence found himself in the right place at the right time, recording with producer Glen Lee at his Charles Street studio, a few doors down from Lee Perry’s record shop. Perry checked out the soulful singer and suggested they could work together. Their first effort came in 1974 with a tentative, somewhat saccharine cover of William Bell’s To Be A Lover previously reggaefied by Perry with Chenley Duffus in 1972. However, when they next convened in 1976 Perry was ensconced in the laboratorial surrounds of his Black Ark Studio creating a dense, subterranean potation of sound where reverb, beat and boom serve to simultaneously soothe, hypnotize and spook. Perry worked for over a year with Lawrence - rechristening him George Faith due to his patience – and created a heavy, sweet molasses of phased and echoing trip-grooves, all smudged drums and rippling electronics. Onto these he smeared George’s pleading, pure soul covers of In The Midnight Hour, YaYa and Turn Back The Hands Of Time, phased, sliced, dubbed into ghostly echoes and cries. The final result is distinctly other-worldly, suggesting the broken-hearted pleas of a spurned lover cutting through the stoned fug of his partner’s delayed indifference. Tragically the duo never worked together again. Blaming “demons” and his treatment at the hands of Island Records Perry burnt down the Black Ark in 1980 and George Faith faded back into the small time, eventually succumbing to cancer in 2003. Such knowledge now lends an extra sadness to the eerie whisper and spectral fade of this reggae heartbreaker.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 31/07/2008
Further Listening
Lee Perry – Super Ape (Island, 1976)
The Heptones – Party Time (Mango, 1977)
Keith Hudson – Playing It Cool & Playing It Right (Joint International, 1981)
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