Penitentiary records are back with the third installment in the essential Conscious Rasta compilations.
With a great line up that consists of Dennis Brown, Sizzla, Alpha Rowen, and Capleton (to name a few); Conscious Rasta 3 contains 18 songs of strong, uplifting music from Jamaica’s top artists.
Conscious Rasta: Clean Heart and Love, Pt. 3,Various Artists,Penitentiary,Pop,Rap & Hip-Hop,Reggae Collections,V/a Compilations
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Conscious Rasta: Clean Heart and Love, Pt. 3
Various Artists Manufacturer: Penitentiary ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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ASIN: B000ANVPL0 Release Date: 2005-11-15 |
Tracks:
- Smoke Di Herb - Sizzla
- Take Me Were - Jah Mason
- Judgement - Capleton
- Just The Other Day - Richie Spice
- Wipe Those Tears - Luton Fire
- No Hold Down Brother - Alpha Rowen
- Redemption - Dennis Brown
- Not A Easy Road - Anthony B
- Stop - Terbalance
- Red Hot - Luciano
- Government - Natty King
- Please - Junior Kelly
- Levels An Scale - Natal Black
- On Your Own - Norrisman
- Power - Queen Omega
- Babylon Boy - Mr. Perfect
- Conscience Speak - Prezident Brown
Album Description
Penitentiary records are back with the third installment in the essential Conscious Rasta compilations.With a great line up that consists of Dennis Brown, Sizzla, Alpha Rowen, and Capleton (to name a few); Conscious Rasta 3 contains 18 songs of strong, uplifting music from Jamaica's top artists.
Customer Reviews:
Quality Compilation.......2005-11-15
Such is the case on Penitentiary's Conscious Rasta Vol. 3 album. 17 tracks in all, and to be perfectly honest, despite my intense disliking for Penitentiary Records, I have to admit, I'm thoroughly impressed and pleased by CR3. The selection of artists goes above and beyond the typical Sizzla/Capleton/Anthony B/Luciano/Junior Kelly which we normally get on roots compilations (although every last one of those artists are on this one). Of course present are that next wave of artists wo are appearing more and more on such compilations, such as Turbulence and Richie Spice, but we also get such vets as Alpha Rowen, Prezident Brown and the Crown Prince Himself, Dennis Brown. Also making waves here are up and comers Lutan Fyah and Perfect.
The music here, as I said, is very very good. Oddly enough, two of the mainstays, Sizzla & Luciano offer 2 of the weaker tunes on the album (both decent tunes) with Smoke Di Herb and Red Hot, Stop also fails to find Turbulence in a spectacular form and is an average track, but that's about it. The rest of the 17 tracks here vary in quality somewhere between good and outstanding. The best of them all is an odd sounding combination with an unknown artist (more on that in a second) with Junior Kelly called Please. Big big tune, wonderfully done and wonderful hook.
Also definitely worth checking is Jah Mason's wicked Take Me There, Richie Spice's Just the Other Day (also known as Slang a Slang), beautiful tune, young Lutan Fyah's Wipe Away Those Tears, wonderful to see him perform that tune as well. Also check Norris Man's absolutely gorgeous On Your Own, Guyanese singjay Natural Black on Levels an Scale and Perfect's wicked Babylon Boy.
Another wonderful highlight here is the inclusion of a female in the mix. Longtime Roots compilations have been devoid of the presence of women (case and point check Greensleeve's recently released massive 40 track one drop compilation which has no women) and CR3 boasts probably the best in the biz in Trinidad's Queen Omega on the track Power, very nice tune and fantastic to her inclusion.
Now for the bad. Remember this is a Penitentiary Records album. So that means that everything besides the music & cover art is flawed. The tracklist on the back misspells Capleton(Capelton, but spells it right on the cover), Lutan Fyah(Luton Fire), Turbulence(Terbalence, huh?) and Natural Black (NATAL BLACK). Want to know who produced the tunes? Too bad as the liners simply give you 3 of the first 4 producers and none of the rest, and its just a poorly presented project overall. I could probably find the rest of the producers for these tunes online, and you could probably as well, so it gives it an overall unfinished product feel, which is just unfortunate for such a well done (MUSICALLY) piece.
Overall, no, you shouldn't judge this album because of the way it is presented, ultimately it is all about the music, and musically CR3 is well done. The artists and producers (whoever they may be) more than did their part, now if only the record label could have done theirs.
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