The Congos - Heart Of The Congos

Genre:	Reggae
Singer:	The Congos
Title:	Heart Of The Congos
Short-info:	Label: Blood & Fire ‎– BAFCD 009 Type: CD, Album, Remastered CD, Compilation All Media, Reissue, Repress, Slipcase Country: UK Date of released: Category: Reggae Style: Roots Reggae, Dub
MP3 album size .rar:	1904 mb
APE album size .rar:	1403 mb
Digital formats:	MP3 FLAC DXD AA FLAC ASF MP3 MP2 AC3

The Congos - Heart Of The Congos
RAR archive MP3 format

1904 downloads at 53 mb/s

The Congos - Heart Of The Congos
RAR archive FLAC format

1403 downloads at 43 mb/s

Tracklist Hide Credits

1-1	Fisherman Bass – Geoffrey ChungDrums – Paul*Written-By – Cedric Myton, Lee Perry, Roydel Johnson	6:03
1-2	Congoman Bass – Winston 'Brubeck' Wright*Written-By – Cedric Myton, Lee Perry, Roydel Johnson	6:38
1-3	Open Up The Gate	4:28
1-4	Children Crying Backing Vocals – Candy McKenzie	4:12
1-5	La La Bam-Bam Backing Vocals – Barry Llewellyn, Earl Morgan, Gregory Isaacs	3:54
1-6	Can't Come In	5:51
1-7	Sodom And Gomorrow	6:10
1-8	The Wrong Thing	5:34
1-9	Ark Of The Covenant	6:18
1-10	Solid Foundation	5:5
1-11	At The Feast	3:38
1-12	Nicodemus	7:36
2-1	Congoman (12" Mix)	6:15
2-2	Congoman Chant	6:17
2-3	Bring The Mackaback	4:03
2-4	Noah Sugar Pan	3:27
2-5	Solid Foundation (Disco Cork Mix)	5:57

Companies, etc.

Recorded At – The Black Ark
Mastered At – The Town House
Remastered At – Abbey Road Studios
Made By – Universal M & L, UK
Copyright (c) – Blood & Fire Limited

Credits

Backing Vocals – The Meditations, Watty 'King' Burnett*
Bass – Boris Gardiner
Coordinator [Project Co-ordination], Liner Notes – Bob Harding, Steve Barrow
Design, Art Direction – Mat Cook
Drums – Lowell 'Sly' Dunbar*, Mikey 'Boo' Richards*
Illustration – Andy Veitch, Mat Cook
Lead Guitar – Ernest Ranglin
Mastered By – Kevin Metcalfe
Organ – Winston 'Brubeck' Wright*
Percussion – Lee Perry, Noel 'Skully' Simms*, Uziah 'Sticky' Thompson*
Photography By – Phil Hale
Piano – Keith Stewart
Producer – Lee 'Scratch' Perry*, The Congos
Remastered By [Digital Restoration] – Andy Walter*
Rhythm Guitar – Robert 'Billy' Johnson*
Written-By – Cedric Myton (tracks: 1-3 to 2-5), Roydel Johnson (tracks: 1-3 to 2-5)

Notes

From the liner notes: "This reissue attempts to be the definitive version of this classic; longer than any of the previous five issues, it also includes scarce mixes of several tracks on the bonus CD, all digitally remastered to provide the optimum sound quality."

Jewel case and Slipcase version that was released after the production of the original Digipak-style release was stopped.
This is a press by Universal M & L, dating it from April 1999 to April 2002.

Recorded in The Black Ark 1976/77, Cardiff Crescent, Washington Gardens, Kingston, Jamaica.

Mastered at the Town House, London.
Digital Restoration at Room 63, Abbey Road Studios, London.
Design and Art Direction at Intro, London.
Project Co-ordination for Blood and Fire Limited.

Congoman/Congoman Chant are taken from the master tape for Island Black Swan 12" issue, first released in 1977 and not available since then.
Bring The Mackaback is a dub version to Fisherman previously available as a Jamaican 7" B-side released on the Upsetter label.
Noah Sugar Pan is Scratch's B-side dub mix to the Black Art label 7" of Ark of the Covenant first issued in 1977.
Solid Foundation is from the master tape of the Jamaican Upsetter 12" mix.

Special Thanks: Cedric and Yvonne Myton, Roydel Johnson, Barry Frankson, Andrea Lewis, Clive Chin and Mandy Campbell, Bob Perry, Lisa Barbaris & Max King, David Katz, Jeremy Collingwood and Trevor Wyatt.

Zairean Mask from: Idonia Van Der Bijl, 25a Museum Street, London WC1.

℗ 1977 The Congos
© 1996 Blood and Fire Limited.

Made in England.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Scanned): 783564000920
Barcode (Text): 7 83564 00092 0
Matrix / Runout (CD 1): BAFCD009/1 ODC UK
Matrix / Runout (CD 2): BAFCD009/2 ODC UK
Mastering SID Code (CD 1): IFPI L041
Mastering SID Code (CD 2): IFPI L041

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
none	The Congos	Heart Of The Congos ‎(LP, Album)	Black Art	none	Jamaica	1977
BEAT 2	The Congos	Heart Of The Congos ‎(LP, Album, RE)	Go-Feet Records	BEAT 2	UK	1980
VPRL1287	The Congos	Heart Of The Congos ‎(LP, Album, RE)	VP Records	VPRL1287	US	1993
VPRL4212	The Congos	Heart Of The Congos ‎(3xLP, Album, RE, RM, 197)	17 North Parade, VP Records	VPRL4212	US	2017
VP4143	The Congos	Heart Of The Congos ‎(LP, Album, Red + LP, Comp + Dlx)	17 North Parade	VP4143	US	2008