LUCIANO - A NEW DAY

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****A NEW DAY****

TRACKLIST


1. No Night In Zion 4:39
2. Oh Father I Love Thee 3:51
3. Is There A Place ? 3:49
4. Happy People 3:49
5. Road Of Life 3:53
6. Nah Give Up 3:37
7. God Is My Friend 4:28
8. Only A Fool 3:51
9. Traveler 3:41
10. African Skies 3:44
11. A New Day 4:11
12. Hardcore 3:54
13. Spring Summer 4:03
14. God & King 3:52
15. Tell Me Why 3:26
16. Save The World 4:53
17. Journey 3:54


Label VP
Orig Year 2001


Personnel: Bo Pee, Dalton Browne, Ernie Wilks (guitar); David Madden, Dean Fraser, Tan Tan (horns); Noel Browne, Robert Lyn, Steven "Lenky" Marsden (keyboards); George "Dusty" Miller , Scully, Sly Dunbar, Bongo Herman (drums).


Audio Mixers: Collin "Bulbie" York; Lynford "Fatta" Marshall; Rohan Dwyer; Solgie Hamilton.


Photographer: William Richards.


Personnel includes: Luciano (vocals); Dalton Browne, Raymond McLaughlin (guitar); Dean Fraser, David Madden (horns); Robbie Lyn (keyboards); Robbie Shakespear, Harry T. (bass); Sidney "Congo Billy" Watson, Sly Dunbar (drums); Pam Hall, Sherida Sharpe, Althea Lane (background vocals).


Engineers: Orville Baker, Dean Fraser, Lynford Marshall.


A NEW DAY was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.


It's rare to find a reggae singer these days who is able to draw audiences equally from the dancehall and roots crowds, but that's exactly what Luciano does, attracting fans of modern reggae with the up-to-the-minute grooves provided by his great Firehouse Crew band (and, on his latest album, the legendary drum'n'bass duo of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare) while simultaneously keeping the loyalty of the roots-and-culture crowd with the heartfelt spirituality of his lyrics. On A New Day, he opens with a long, hypnotic exercise in nyabinghi hymnody, the gently stirring repatriation anthem "No Night in Zion," then proceeds to deliver 16 more songs of spiritual uplift, all of them powered by soft-textured but deep and weighty roots rhythms. Particular highlights include the plaintive "Is There a Place?" and the soulful, horn-driven "Only a Fool." Even the spare and dubwise "Hardcore," which at first sounds like just another dancehall boast, turns out to be a declaration of religious faithfulness. Very impressive. ~