- Audio CD (19 Oct 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: World Village
- ASIN: B002HNA9MM
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 255,633 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Formed in the rural backwater of Trelawney in 1986, the Blue Light Mento Band is one of the best-kept secrets of Jamaican popular music. Prime exponents of mento, a distinctly Jamaican form of traditional folk music, the group has long been acclaimed on the island for its mastery of the genre, delivering bawdy humour and social satire with verve and zest. Yet despite holding residencies at several of Jamaica's most prominent nightspots and making well-received appearances at important festivals, the group is almost totally unknown outside the island, a situation that is set to change with this debut album, recorded at the legendary Harry J studio by renowned engineers Stephen Stewart and Sam Clayton Junior. Gilzene contributes guitar and vocals, with Donette Leslie on vocals and shaker, Courtney Clarke on the rhumba box and the 80-year old banjo player Wesley Balds. In the best mento tradition, the fifteen songs cover a range of topics, featuring folk favourites, suggestive ditties and songs examining the finer points of human relationships. Audiences may already be familiar with songs such as 'Wings Of A Dove', 'Brown Girl In The Ring', 'Dream Of Me' and 'Sly Mongoose' but the Blue Light Mento Band bring a refreshingly raw and unadulterated approach to the songs in the classic rural mento tradition. They play mento classics, game-songs and original compositions and also notably Toots and the Maytals' much loved 'Sweet And Dandy', recasting the reggae hit as a mento country stomp, with none other than Toots himself contributing the vibrant harmonica. With this new album, the Blue Light Mento Band is poised and ready to bring mento into the greater public consciousness overseas. Tune in to their musical skills and discover why mento music will live on forever. (adapted from the press release by noted reggae author David Katz)
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