African Head Charge - Shrunken Head 2003 UK Original 2 LP Set mostly Mint-
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African Head Charge ~ Shrunken Head
2003 Original, 1st pressing.
Made in Great Britain
Double Vinyl - 2 LP Set
ON-U Sound Records - ONULP1007
Vinyl are EX++ to Mint-, mostly Mint-
Vinyl look EX++ to Mint-, mostly Mint- : light, inaudible, faint marks.
Vinyl play EX++ to Mint-, mostly Mint- : light background-crackles faintly in some intro's and between a few tracks.
Labels are EX++ to Mint-; light marks and faint indentations.
Cover is EX++ to Mint-, mostly Mint-: small corner-bends, light-wear and faint indentations.
The original inner-sleeves have intact seams.
Includes HQ inner-sleeves which the vinyl are stored in.
Out of print original pressing.
The thing about Bonjo Iabinghi Noah (aka Bonjo I, aka African Head Charge) is that some of his albums have been simply brilliant while others have been simply unlistenable. For that reason, a carefully selected best-of is just what the doctor ordered, and it's long overdue -- Bonjo I had been making albums under the African Head Charge moniker since 1981, and his last full-length studio effort came out a good five years before the release of Shrunken Head. His signature sound -- a bizarre but highly effective pastiche of reggae and nyahbinghi rhythms, sampled field recordings, and dark, sometimes downright frightening production leavened by cheerful messages of social and spiritual uplift -- has always marked African Head Charge as a strange musical bird even by On-U Sound's quite tolerant standards. Shrunken Head brings together some of the best African Head Charge material from the 1980s and 1990s: highlights include the seminal "Pursuit," which features an eerily altered Prince Far I vocal over equally eerie samples of bells and field recordings of pygmy chants, a chugging new version of "You Learn," and a 7" single mix of "Run Come See." "Language & Mentality" features the sampled vocals of Albert Einstein. There are two brand new tracks, the best of which is the psychedelically beautiful "Who Are You?." But really, nothing on this album is less than weirdly wonderful. Shrunken Head offers the best entry point to date into African Head Charge's bizarre and fascinating musical universe.
-allmusic
Packaged protectively for safe and secure shipping with USPS tracking.
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