Keith Hudson — dark-side reggae legend, producer for U-Roy, Big Youth, Ken Boothe and Horace Andy, and the man behind "Pick A Dub," one of the very first official dub albums ever made; "Flesh Of My Skin, Blood Of My Blood" (1974), the singular psychedelic-exotic reggae masterwork known as reggae's first concept album; and "Playing It Cool & Playing It Right," a druggy, mysterious dub oddity that plays like a psychoacoustic journey into the abyss of his own being, approaching Sly Stone and Funkadelic from a reggae and dub angle — here returns with "Nuh Skin Up Dub," the experimental, deep and heavy, hauntingly dangerous dark-side soundscape/hypnotic dubwise oddity originally released on Joint International in 1979, now remastered and reissued by Week-End Records for the first time since the 2007 Pressure Sounds edition and its 2019 reissue. Time and space quietly, gradually warp. The mastering by the great Stephan Mathieu is soft, warm and beautifully attentive. A standout album, with liner notes including an interview with Fully Fullwood, the master bassist who led The Soul Syndicate and stands among the definitive figures of the Jamaican music scene.
Week-End Records — the label launched by Germany's Cologne-based Week-End Festival, with an ultra-tasteful run of releases including Julius Eastman "Stay On It," Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke "Lifetime Of A Flower," Suzanne Ciani "Improvisation On Four Sequences," Slapp Happy "Sort Of," Fred Frith "Guitar Solo / Fifty," Jards Macalé "Jards Macalé," Joyce "Passarinho Urbano," Dinosaur "Kiss Me Again" and Marshall Allen "New Dawn" — presents its eagerly awaited 14th release. The price is quite steep, but this is a family-heirloom-grade gem of a record. (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)