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AUG O8: RAVE REVIEWS for 'SIGN TIME'
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CLAUDIUS LINTON: Burning before Spear,
Deep Roots, Modern Conscious, Sound Eternal: From Roots
Master to Sign Time
Kingman & Jonah: The New CD "Sign
Time" debuts
Claudius Linton's first new recordings in 20 Years
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KINGMAN IS BACK!
The rediscovery and artistic rebirth of Claudius
Linton, a a Kingman, is the reggae resurrection
story of the decade. Ind e rocker/producer Ian
Jones (aka Jonah) met Linton, the artist behi
d 1976’s #1 hit "Crying Time," on a Jamaican
beach and struck up t e partnership that has resulted
in Linton’s 2008 comeback album s Kingman &
Jonah, entitled 'Sign Time.'
Kingman, as Claudius Linton is known,
recorded as a member of the Angelic Brothers and the
Hofner Brothers before cutting his solo hits in the
‘70s, backed by a who's who of Jamaican reggae greats.
Jonah, or Ian Jones, co-founded Evil
Genius Studios in '90s indie-rock hub Arlington, Virginia,
recording albums such as Tuscadero’s The Pink Album
and touring with Eggs and Viva Satellite before launching
Sun King Records.
Kingman & Jonah’s collaboration,
despite their different musical and cultural backgrounds,
is no experiment in fusion - 'Sign Time'
is a classic roots reggae album on par with Kingman’s
highly collectible 1970s singles. With a recording career
that dates back to the early ‘60s ska movement and a
musical and personal kinship with Bob Marley and Peter
Tosh, Kingman is more than a veteran reggae hit-maker
- he is one of the originators of the roots reggae vocal
style associated with Culture and Burning Spear.
The music on 'Sign Time' is timeless
- if not for the lyrics’ social and political references,
it could have been recorded at any point in the last
30 years. The mesmerizing rhythms, soulful vocals and
classic roots reggae style of Kingman’s vintage singles
are fully intact, and his acoustic folk songs carry
on the tradition of Bob Marley’s "Redemption Song."
Regarding his topical lyrics then and now, Kingman says:
"We were telling people of what Marcus Garvey
and Martin Luther King said, but they wouldn't listen...
Today it's Baghdad, today it's Iraq. But it's the same
oppression, it's the same urgent message coming through
on the new CD."
'Sign Time' reunites Kingman with the band heard on
his classic singles -- an aggregate of reggae veterans
dubbed the "Buena Vista Social Club of reggae":
Ansel Collins, Dwight Pinkney, Leroy "Horsemouth"
Wallace, Keith Francis, Bongo Herman and Dean Fraser.s
Recorded in Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Studios,
'Sign Time' is steeped in tradition and experience,
but the music is no relic - it is the roots reggae sound
of today.
In 2007, Sun King Records reissued
the first-ever collection of Linton's essential classic
singles from the late-‘60s to the mid-‘80s, on the 16-track
enhanced CD anthology 'Roots Master:
The Vintage Roots Reggae Singles Volume 1,' which many
critics proclaimed Album of the Year. If his early recordings
show Linton to be a peer and an equal to his better-known
contemporaries, then Sun King’s release of 'Sign Time'
proves that his creative powers have not diminished
in the 20 years since we last heard from him. As the
Hofner Brothers once sang, "Kingman Is Back!"
To learn more and watch the making-of EPK, visit
www.SunKingRecords.com. Sun King Records is distributed
worldwide exclusively through Morphius Records (www.morphius.com).
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Fly on the Wall Media
10002 Kent Rd E
Bloomington, IN 47401
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