Lee Scratch Perry Interview

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I was humbled to interview Perry backstage for 10 minutes and to give him a present too.

Lee scratch perry interview. Ever since meeting The Upsetter last November Id been itching to continue our conversation. The interview begins with reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry dictating the seating arrangements in the room. Lee Scratch Perry performing at the Dub Club in Los Angeles.

The dub-reggae legend speaks out. My reggae sixth sense told me itd be a good idea to buy an extra Rasta-colored ring on the off-chance legendary Jamaican music producer Lee Scratch Perry might return to Los Angeles. Rare footage never before seen in its entirety of one of the true creative geniuses of 20th Century music.

To mark his passing heres our interview with the reggae visionary that originally appeared in Uncuts June 2018 issue. Crazy genius and one of a kind. He gestures towards his own chair and calls it my own private space.

Lee Scratch Perry Interview. Interview with Lee Scratch Perry. The pioneer of dub turned 80 on Sunday here he.

1 Obeah Man and Dub Shep. Behind him is a career as the king of the soundsystems the man who taught. When I call up the reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry The Upsetter to talk about his new album Rainford I reach him on a grainy WhatsApp audio connection.

Lee Scratch Perry is waxing lyrical on his new album Rainford an impish grin shining beneath his Day-Glo beard. Looking at the day and looking at the night. Lee Scratch Perry at 80.

It is not easy to interview Lee Scratch Perry. Interview with Lee Perry around his house and studio dont know the name of the interviewer. When Lee Perry aka Scratch aka The Upsetter burned down his Black Ark studio many people thought he had finally flipped his lid.

Lee Scratch Perry. At the feet of Lee Scratch Perry is laid a lifetimes work burnt to ashes beyond any hope of recognition or salvation. Lee Scratch Perry has died aged 85.

In an interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy for Channel 4 in 2015 not long after his 80th birthday one of the first statements uttered by Scratch was Do you know that Im crazy My experience with Lee Scratch Perry did nothing to challenge this claim. Playful one moment spiritual the next spacey to. Whether it is a defense mechanism for fending off what he deems useless enquiries or just a protection of self it is a perfect representation of what his music represents.

Lee Scratch Perry talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about religion reggae and his bootsSubscribe to Channel 4 News on Youtube. Danny Kelly takes a schizo-reading on the man who. Courtesy of Stephen A.

Hes in Jamaica and hes in bed looking at the lights. Its the latest instalment in a series of collaborative works produced with the inventive British producer Adrian Sherwood and easily his best set since their last joint effort The Mighty Upsetter released by On-U Sound. I am that I am.

But now hes back with a new LP a new studio and a vengeful plan to bankrupt Island Records whose villainy he claims brought about his past madness. Lee Perry speaks about magic spirit and music shortly after a live show on Radio NABA 6 years celebration party Riga Latvia.