Lee Scratch Perry

Bob Marley biopic: Less legend, more human

Film has all the hits, none of the misses – and very little of the miss-e

Charles Leonard

8 min read

Standby: An album of unreleased music by the late Jamaican reggae musician Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry is due out soon. (Paul Bergen/Redferns)

EMAHOY TSEGUE MARYAM GUEBROU

12 JAN 2024

Starting the year on the right note

Setting my musical intentions for 2024, I select four upcoming albums that made my heart race

Charles Leonard

8 min read

Mad about music: Sudanese musician Jantra, whose name translates as “craziness”, with his trusty blue Yamaha keyboard, playing at a party in DarGoog in Sudan recently. His album Synthesized Sudan was released by Ostinato Records earlier this year. Photo: Janto Koité/Ostinato Records

SYNTHESIZED SUDAN

29 DEC 2023

The hidden music of Africa is a whole ‘nother reissue

Record labels that bring us sounds which fly under the radar This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free Account The Mail & Guardian is…

Charles Leonard

1 min read

Limitless vision: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry in the mid-70s at the Black Ark studio, which he built in his backyard. It was subsequently destroyed in a fire. Photo: Ted Bafaloukos

BOB MARLEY

4 SEP 2021

The Portfolio: How Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry gave Bob Marley his chops

An extract from the biography ‘People Funny Boy’: how the maverick producer transformed the sound of reggae and its number-one group

David Katz

3 min read