Midnight Landing

The Beat
rarely has a reggae group ever appeared so accomplished in mixing orthodox roots reggae with modern dub creation.

Product Description
"Midnight Landing," is 10 Ft. Ganja Plant’s second release on ROIR. Their first, entitled "Hillside Airstrip", was uniformly hailed by the music press. "Midnight Landing," at it’s heart, is inspired by the recording processes of the great Jamaican studio bands of the 70's (and their American counterparts, Motown and Stax) where a song was potentially written, learned, and recorded in one session, with the band playing live on one track and then being voiced on the second track, with no regrets, and no apologies. Add to this ethos, some dubwise studio mastery and experimentation ("Chanting Nyabinghi", inspired by the African drumming style, is a creative departure and one of the best tracks they’ve ever cut) and you begin to get the picture.

Midnight Landing

Midnight Landing,10 Ft. Ganja Plant,Roir,70's Roots Reggae/Dub; "While the sounds are stylistically diverse, covering a range of bases from deep soul dub to lively up rock steady, they are consistently excellent." -Shaun Dale, Cosmik Debris (ROIR),Pop,Reggae,Reggae Music

Average customer rating: Good. Reggae. Album. Midnight Landing Amazing Not as good as hillside airstrip GOOD, BUT NOT HILLSIDE AIRSTRIP

Midnight Landing 10 Ft. Ganja Plant Manufacturer: Roir ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | Compilations | International | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Reggae | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Hillside Airstrip Bass Chalice Spirits All Around Us Pressure Points Among Them ASIN: B00009RXIB Release Date: 2003-07-01

Tracks:

1. 100 LB. Weight
2. Ganja Plane Rider
3. Kneel at the Feet
4. Let the Music Hit
5. Shine Dub
6. Midnight Landing
7. Chanting Nyabinghi
8. Mercy
9. Wide Open
10. Sweet Country
11. Righteous Dub

Album Description

"Midnight Landing," is 10 Ft. Ganja Plant's second release on ROIR. Their first, entitled "Hillside Airstrip", was uniformly hailed by the music press. "Midnight Landing," at it's heart, is inspired by the recording processes of the great Jamaican studio bands of the 70's (and their American counterparts, Motown and Stax) where a song was potentially written, learned, and recorded in one session, with the band playing live on one track and then being voiced on the second track, with no regrets, and no apologies. Add to this ethos, some dubwise studio mastery and experimentation ("Chanting Nyabinghi", inspired by the African drumming style, is a creative departure and one of the best tracks they've ever cut) and you begin to get the picture.

Album Description

Midnight Landing is 10 Ft. Ganja Plant's second release on ROIR. At its heart, the album is inspired by the recording processes of the great Jamaican studio bands of the 70s (and their American counterparts, Motown and Stax) where a song was potentially written, learned, and recorded in one session, with the band playing live on one track and then being voiced on the second track, with no regrets, and no apologies. And then add some dub-wise studio mastery and experimentation such as mixing orthodox roots reggae with modern dub creation makes 10 Ft. sound so refreshing & urgent. Features members of John Brown's Body. 11 tracks. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Good. Reggae. Album........2007-03-25

A very palatable combination of instrumental, rock-steady, roots, and dub reggae with a somewhat Euro feel to it (think early Steel Pulse perhaps). One star deducted for some spotty production values (a bit of harshness to the mix, with some distortion that might even be intentional, i don't know).

Midnight Landing.......2005-03-06

Absolutely no originality to this album. I purchased "No Bed of Roses" along with this album and it's much better (no wonder with Reggae ace Style Scott leading the project). The whole tiime I was listening to Midnight Landing I thought that perhaps there will be one song anyway that made the purchase worthwhile, and I had to wait until the very last song to think "yeah, maybe that one." There was no compeling instrumentals on this album either and I really wish they would quite trying to imitate Augustus Pablo with that melodica. I won't blame previous reviewers who liked the album because I already had it before reading my first review, but sorry you people should try listening to Isreal Vibration or Misty In Roots if you really want roots music. I hope I like John Brown's Body better because I was actually looking for their Spirits All Around album when I found this one. (not an internet purchase this time). Too bad I can't return this one.

Amazing.......2004-02-27

I was surprised that I had never heard of 10 Ft. Ganja Plant's music because this album is quite good. Draws quite a close resemblance to South African Reggae. My favorite song is "Let the music hit"

Not as good as hillside airstrip.......2004-02-11

This new release is a let down compaired to their first album. The vocals are different and not as powerful. Althought they still have that strong and melodic rythem. I am still a huge fan but a little dissappointed

GOOD, BUT NOT HILLSIDE AIRSTRIP.......2004-01-16

For the second outing, the Plant came with a solid effort. They had nice riddims, but the grooves were deeper on the first album. It took a few listens this time for me to get into them, yet in the end they won me over. Still worthwhile.

Average customer rating: Brilliant, A Must Have For Jimi Fans!!!!!!!

Midnight Lightning / Crash Landing Manufacturer: Polydor Russia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Guitar Gods | Rock Guitarists | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Cry of Love / War Heroes War Heroes Live at Winterland Live Cream Live Cream, Vol. 2 ASIN: B000F5EFYM

Product Description

Combination release, including bonus tracks 51st Anniversary, Highway Chile, and Remember

Customer Reviews:

Brilliant, A Must Have For Jimi Fans!!!!!!!.......2006-06-07

The opening riff to "Foxey Lady" provides the foundation for the instrumental "Trash Man," and no amount of bastardization can take away from the genius guitarist his legacy. If you take this work at face value, without the baggage of what "producer" Alan Douglas did to the tapes, this time with Tony Bongiovi along for the ride, it's still Hendrix. Maybe God allowed the series of albums to happen so the world could see Hendrix's work could survive doctoring and musicians jamming with his art after the fact. That this disc goes for big bucks on Internet auction sites says something about the timelessness of the music. The title track, as with seven of the eight performances here, has session player Alan Schwartzberg on drums, a far cry from his work with Carole Bayer Sager. Mitch Mitchell only appears on Hendrix's blues classic "Hear My Train," Schwartzberg adding shakers. Bob Babbit is the "designated bassist" on the entire project (no doubt what Billy Cox and Noel Redding thought about this), and Jeff Mironov shares guitar duties with Lance Quinn. That's not a misprint. Thankfully, the extra guitarists are somewhat invisible -- you know, what's the point of having co-vocalists add their talents to a Janis Joplin disc? What these recordings effectively do is offer the world a comparison between what the official Hendrix estate is doing, and what Douglas did. The Hendrix estate wins that battle, Eddie Kramer and John McDermott carefully restoring all the master tapes of Jimi Hendrix, and restoring them properly. Discs like Midnight Lightning are also a statement on how a great artist's legacy can go through various hands and the artistic consequences of tapes traveling as if under their own steam. History is an excellent vantage point from which to view. The title track is great -- and it goes along with the cover painting very nicely. Is it blasphemy to say that this is a highly enjoyable disc? All the post-Cry of Love releases -- War Heroes, Crash Landing, Voodoo Soup, Blues, Hendrix in the West, Rainbow Bridge, the soundtrack to the Jimi Hendrix film, and this -- provide another crucial look at Hendrix. The more the merrier. It is great to have the official Hendrix estate with Janie Hendrix, John McDermott, and Eddie Kramer doing this properly, but this version of "Gypsy Boy (New Rising Sun)," the inclusion of Mitch Mitchell's "Beginnings," another "Machine Gun," and "Blue Suede Shoes" exist, thus they are important additions to the Hendrix archives. It will be interesting to see if the official Hendrix estate eventually re-releases the Alan Douglas masters just to keep these once-legit works from cluttering the market with counterfeits.

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