Long out of print early 80s Wackie's album from the main man Lloyd Barnes. Features the killer deep roots tune "Mash Down Babylon". Jah Batta, Jerry Harris, Wayne Jarrett and many more singers & players.
The Chosen Brothers – Sing & Shout
Label: Wackie's – WRCD 2457
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: UK
Released: 1998
Genre: Reggae
Style: Roots Reggae, Lovers Rock, Dub
Source: CD Rip / Flac / Scans
1. There You Are 3:56
2. Sing & Shout 3:43
3. Jah Don't Like That 3:33
4. Hey Lady 3:52
5. Joy, Joy 3:50
6. I Gave You Love 3:51
7. Dancing In The Rain 3:58
8. Mash Down Babylon 3:14
9. Back To Africa 4:06
10. All Things 2:56
11. Untitled 3:26
12. Untitled 3:54
13. Untitled 3:20
Credits
Backing Vocals – Jah Batta, Junior Delahaye, Milton Henry, Smoking Dread, Wayne Jarrett
Bass – Clive Hunt, Winston Gardner
Bass, Guitar – Jerry Harris
Drums – Clive Plummer, Joe Isaacs
Drums, Bass – Fabian Cooke
Engineer – Bullwackie, Douglas Levy, Sugar Minott
Guitar – Owen Stewart
Horns – Jerry Johnson, Neville Anderson
Lead Vocals – Lloyd Barnes
Percussion – Hasan Bakr, Ras Menelik
Producer – Lloyd Barnes, Sonny Ochiai
Notes
This is a UK Reissue of 1985 LP. The liner notes feature a quote from Psalm 133 ("Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity...")
The three dub tracks at the end are uncredited on the CD; they are also not present on the original LP.
Track 11 is a dub version on Wackies Rhythm Force 'Give It Away' riddim, with snatches of an unidentified vocalist.
Track 12 is Azul's Black Rose (Part I).
Track 13 is Roots Underground's 'Black Brigade', the riddim was also used for Tyrone Evans' 'Dread Light'.
Lloyd ‘Bulwackie’ Barnes interview by Ray Hurford
https://www.reggae-vibes.com/articles/2021/07/lloyd-bulwackie-barnes-interview/Chosen Brothers - Sing & Shout
Ace mid 1980s Bullwackies album with revised track listing
Great early eighties album from Lloyd Barnes, the main man at Brooklyn's reggae refuge Bullwackies. The album kicks off with the killer roots March Down Babylon, before settling into a smooth vocal set in the classic group style. The last tracks on both sides featuring full 12" mix style workouts. -Dub Vendor
Boomkat Product Review:
For the 1st time in over 30 years, The Chosen Brothers’ mellifluous roots reggae masterpiece ‘Sing & Shout’ returns, re-shuffled, abridged and re-cut to vinyl by CGB at D&M, Berlin
Most notable for the gorgeous ‘Mash Down Babylon’, which was versioned by Rhythm & Sound to classic effect in 1998 and now opens this new edition, ‘Sing & Shout’ is perhaps one of roots reggae's more overlooked efforts, but arguably also one of the most distinguished of its mid ‘80s era.
Recorded at Bullwackie’s studio in White Plains, NYC, by Douglas Levy, Sugar Minot and Bullwackie, ‘Sing & Shout’ blends classic roots lyrical themes and dub production with early traces of the digital drum machine and synth styles that would come to dominate the dancehall from this phase forward.
For this new edition, the now Berlin-administered Wackies deign to resequence the track-list, which now starts up with the evergreen original of ‘March Down Babylon’ (which has also been issued on a 12” with bonus dub + version this week) and the wickedly slow and easy digidub of ‘Jah Don’t Like That’ along with the mellow wooze of ‘Sing & Shout’ and the misty precipitation of ‘Dancing In The Rain (12” Mix)’, and comes to rest with woozy praises to Jah in ‘All Things (12” Mix)’.
Nice and easy definitely wins the day here. Unmissable!
A fresh iteration of the mid-eighties LP (itself a compilation of recordings from the previous five years or so), replacing two tracks — Dancing In The Rain and All Things — with their full 12" versions.
This is a deeply personable, expert, limber blend of roots and lovers, kicking off with an exclusive mix of the deadly Mash Down Babylon; dropping classic, lush, spaced-out Wackies dub science to close; and taking in reworkings of Lickshot, Billie Jean and The Righteous Flames’ I Was Born To Be Loved, along the route.
The moniker ‘Chosen Brothers’ is Lloyd Barnes’ spiritual way of sharing the credit for his solo projects. “Anyone in the studio at the time could be a Chosen Brother,” he says. In this case a full crew includes Sugar Minott and Prince Douglas at the desk; Jah Batta, Milton Henry, Wayne Jarrett and Junior Delahaye all on backing vocals; and such dream-team Bullwackies instrumentalists as Clive Hunt, Jerry Johnson, Fabian Cooke and Ras Menelik. -Hardwax
Chosen Brothers - Sing & Shout
Cat No: W2457
Release date: 2018
Label: Wackies
Genre: DUB / REGGAE
Source: Digital / Flac
1. Mash Down Babylon 3:13
2. Jah Don’t Like That 3:32
3. Sing & Shout 3:42
4. Back To Africa 4:11
5. Dancing In The Rain (12" Mix) 6:51
6. Hey Lady 3:53
7. Joy, Joy 3:50
8. I Gave You Love 3:51
9. There You Are 3:54
10. All Things (12" Mix) 6:52