(2020) The Archives – Carry Me Home. A Reggae Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson



Review:
…Carry Me Home. A Reggae Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson is the brainchild of Washington D.C. reggae group the Archives along with Thievery Corporation’s Eric Hilton, who recruited artists like Raheem DeVaughn, dub poet Mutabaruka, Puma Ptah, Addis Pablo and Kenyatta Hill (the sons of reggae legends Augustus Pablo and Culture’s Joseph Hill, respectively) for the tribute comp. Brian Jackson, whose renowned collaborations with the late Gil Scott-Heron span from the poet’s 1971 album Pieces of a Man through their joint 1980 LP 1980, also appears on three Carry Me Home tracks. “I’ve been meditating the proper way to approach this project for a few years now,” The Archives’ Darryl “Trane” Burke said of Carry Me Home. “I was fortunate to grow up in a home where Gil and Brian’s music played often alongside The Wailers, Burning Spear, Steel Pulse and many others. Reggae is also dubbed ‘Island Soul,’ which to me makes this a perfect setting to present the music through a different lens while simultaneously highlighting the similarities.” “Like Gil’s compositions, reggae contains elements of jazz and soul,” Hilton added. “It’s the perfect backdrop to Gil’s revolutionary pan-Africanist lyrics.”



Track Listing:
1."Home Is Where The Hatred Is"  (4:05)
2."Rivers Of My Fathers" (4:43)
3."Peace Go With You Brother (As-salaam-alaikum)"  (4:04)
4."It's Your World"  (3:31)
5."Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul?"  (4:26)
6."Song Of The Wind"  (4:15)
7."Must Be Something"  (3:48 )
8."A Toast To The People"  (4:44)
9."The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"  (4:25)
10."Cane"  (4:19)
11."Revolution Disguised As Change"  (3:42)
12."Winter In America"  (7:01)
13.Home Is Where The Hatred Is Dub" (I Grade dub mix) (4:32)


Media Report:
Genre: reggae, tribute
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits