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Let the sun kiss your face

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It grows dusk. The roads leading from the different places of suburban resort, are crowded with people on their return home, and the sound of merry voices rings through the gradually darkening fields. The evening is hot and sultry. The rich man throws open the sashes of his spacious dining-room, and quaffs his iced wine in splendid luxury. The poor man, who has no room to take his meals in, but the close apartment to which he and his family have been confined throughout the week, sits in the tea-garden of some famous tavern, and drinks his beer in content and comfort. The fields and roads are gradually deserted, the crowd once more pour into the streets, and disperse to their several homes; and by midnight all is silent and quiet, save where a few stragglers linger beneath the window of some great man’s house, to listen to the strains of music from within: or stop to gaze upon the splendid carriages which are waiting to convey the guests from the dinner-party of an Earl. – Charles Dickens, Sunday under Three Heads

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Six Kisses. Let the sun kiss your face

01. Bob MarleyIs This Love
Kaya (Tuff Gong, 1978)
02. Augustus PabloNew Lots Express
Authentic Golden Melodies (Rockers, 1980)
03. Phillip FraserYou’re No Good [Discomix]
2 Heavyweight: Another Blood & Fire Sampler (Blood & Fire Records, 1997)
04. King Tubby & Soul SyndicateEthiopian Version
Freedom Sounds in Dub (Blood & Fire Records, 1996)
05. Devendra BanhartThe Other Woman
Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (2007)
06. Bob MarleyWe And Dem
Uprising (tuff Gong, 1980)
07. Augustus PabloTippa Tone Blues
Authentic Golden Melodies (Rockers, 1980)
08. King Tubby & Soul Syndicate - Leaving Babylon Dub
Freedom Sounds in Dub (Blood & Fire Records, 1996)

Note: new series! Let’s see how far I can finish this one. There suppose to be six of them. Shall we say three is a good aim? This list is dub, with several key artists (Marley, King Tubby). What other mood than that “dubby” feeling of effect filled raggae? I’ll figure out what this series is about by third post. Otherwise, comment away …

see also: Bob Marley, King Tubby (wiki)
image: ilmungo

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Category: Bedroom playlist, Rock

3 Responses

  1. squashed says:

    I can’t fix the king tubby files at the moment. Dreamhost is acting very strange. In the meantime, this slideshow-tubby track from youtube.

  2. Fredda says:

    Thank you so much for this wonderful compilation!

    Loved all the songs and it’s great to discover new artists (for me) like Phillip Fraser and that awesome Devendra Banhart.

    It’s perfect background music to cleaning house!

    The grooves put a big smile on my face…

    and I love the Dickens text accompanying your post.

    thank you thank you

    (/-_’)/

  3. toddc says:

    Jah Rastafari!

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The song makes its imprint
in the air, making itself felt,
a felt world. Here, there,
the stunned silence

of knowing I will not remember
what I heard;

futures that will never happen,
a fluidity we cannot achieve
except as a child
creating possibility.

This is the untranslatable song
hidden in the earth.

-Untranslatable Song [1]