Gregory Isaacs - Come Along mp3 album

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Another superb and criminally overlooked Gregory LP. This is one of his most mellow and romantic Lovers Works. He didn't sound that relaxed and smooth ever before. "Come Along" was produced by King Jammy and the only musicians here were Steely & Clevie. This reduced Sound charms Gregory's fine arranged vocals, occasional pepped up with some female/male backing Vocals, that are also mixed way beyond in the mix. The Songs here are all very good and romatic. The weakest one "Give Love a Try" gets saved by the mighty Bassline of the Real Rock Riddim. What makes this album so outstanding is it's minimal musical approach. The Bass and all other instruments are programmeds. The melodies are created by the Keyboard: if it is a nice Piano fill or some rootsy organ stabs, that set the pace , while (synthesized) Strings or Horns are nicely used for accents. The skills of Wycliffe "Steely" Johnson on Keyboards are outstanding. He has to substitute a complete Rhythm Section with Horns and Guitars and succeeeds . I love especially the few Xylophone parts . All this and Clevie's Bass-Programming floats together with the Voices and gets finely woven by King Jammy at the Controls. It's astonishing but in fact here less is more. All this wouldn't mean a thing if the song material and the vocal performance wasn't top notch. Here we have a perfect example for early computerized Reggae / Lover's Rock - the perfect Background for an intimate Rendesvouz or relaxed evenings and chill-out situatons.

Thanks for explaining in depth how the early 'digital' Reggae was produced. I am no expert at the technical side of music making or the actual playing. If I understand you correct Clevie played a kind of keyboard with the ability to mimick a bunch of other sounds/instruments - such as the Bass. This is no now concept early home organs had bass pedals to be played with the feet. So we are NOT hearing a traditional bass guitar on this album, right ? That was my impression and since the drums are programmed I thought the bass lines were programmed as well. In Techno and early Rap around the time people did that with the so called MC composers MC 303 606 808 909 et all.I like the bass sound, programmed or not ... There was a reason why Steely & Clevie were such an influential new crew once they teamed up and used modern instruments instead of real drums + bass guitars. They started out playing real instruments, so maybe that is why there electronic generated riddim tracks have that true kind of natural/'analog' tone..

I agree with Jussumen, this LP is one of his greatest he has ever done, although he can not keep up with his mellow, romantic and even dramatic mood he shows on LPs like >In PersonExtra ClassicNight NurseWhat I wanted to say so many times already to people that still believe that all or most digital dancehall productions were "programmed" (programmed to me means playing Midi Notes into a sequencer and looping them or at least editing the midi notes): YOU ARE TOTALLY WRONG !! I had the pleasure to attend sessions with Steely and Clevie in 1990. All whats programmed is the drum. Any other instruments like bass (an mini analog yamaha syth), keyboards and guitars and so on were all played live in the monitoring room of the studio. Steely used to play bass and ska-keyboard in one take. I have spend almost a year in Kingston with my band Ganglords between october 94 and july 95 and believe me, we were the only ones who even had a computer. In fact no studio even had a sampler at that time. In Anchor Studio One there was a Mac, but nobody knew how to use it :) I know that later when Jamaican Musicians laid riddims they use hardware sequencers (such as Akai’s MPC) in some cases, but not Steely & Clevie. Clevie used an EMU SP 1200around 1995.I agree as well that Steely did a very well job on this album, but I don't understand what Jussumen is trying to say when he wrote: All this and Clevie's Bass-Programming floats together...Clevie programmed the drummachine (an Oberheim DX plus a Roland 606 on >Give Love A Try