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Flying music<\/h2>\n
This is what I have been listening to.<\/p>\n
This song – Chief Inspector<\/em> – was released on the 1981 album – Brain Damage<\/a> – by British reggae musician and producer – Dennis Bovell<\/a>.<\/p>\n I haven’t listened to this album for some time but it was a pathbreaking release at the time.<\/p>\n Dennis Bovell came to the view that reggae music had stalled in the late 1970s and he wanted to see what a hybrid approach would sound like.<\/p>\n This album was his attempt and fusing standard reggae at the time with various other musicial forms – soul, rock, lovers’ rock, and jazz.<\/p>\n The album isn’t a total success in my view although I like a lot of the ideas.<\/p>\n This track explored how a reggae bottom end would sound like fused with jazz brass lines.<\/p>\n This paved the way for later work by Monty Alexander and others.<\/p>\n It is good flying music.<\/p>\n