Horace Andy - Midnight Rocker (CD)

Ten brand new recordings from the legendary Jamaican singer and longtime Massive Attack collaborator, Horace Andy, produced by Adrian Sherwood! Midnight Rocker was approached in a similar fashion to the late-career quality that Sherwood coaxed out of Lee "Scratch" Perry with the Rainford and Heavy Rain albums, assembling a crack team of players and spending many months perfecting performance, arrangements and mixing. The result is a remarkable suite of tracks that sparkle with superb musicianship, carefully crafted production and Horace's beautiful vocals. The material includes revisiting and updating a few classic Andy songs such as "Mr. Bassie", but the bulk of the tracks are brand new compositions with contemporary messages, such as "Watch Over Them" and "Materialist". The pair also versioned "Safe From Harm", a much-loved early single by the group that Andy is most associated with – Massive Attack.