Welcome to my 👽 Lee “Scratch” Perry 🛸 week!
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Lee Scratch Perry takes the Dada crown!
The Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich hosted an exhibition dedicated to the artist and musician, which was characterized by unbridled creativity.
In the 1970s, Perry lived with his then wife Pauline “Isha” Morrison and their three children in Kingston’s Washington Gardens district on Cardiff Crescent; the couple divorced in 1979.
In 1989, he married the Swiss Mireille Campbell in a Krishna ceremony.
The couple had two children.
They lived in Einsiedeln in the canton of Schwyz for 30 years.
In the village, he was known as a “crazy bird of paradise” who liked to decorate his unusual, creative clothing with silver CD discs. His self-descriptions in interviews were also extremely imaginative; he repeatedly described himself as an 👽 alien from another world and that he lived in outer space and was just a visitor here. 🛸
In 2015, his second recording studio, the Secret Laboratory, burned down under mysterious circumstances.
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Ishion Hutchinson on his poetry & the inspiration of Lee "Scratch" Perry:
…I would say, particularly with Lee "Scratch," I always saw him as a poet in the style of Blake. He contains Blake's opposites, particularly the division between the sound of experience & the sound of innocence. He is so attuned to the sound waves of Jamaica, reaching back into history and colonial past – and bringing it to the fore.
He does this by imagining the journey across the Atlantic, he does it sonically:
The heavy bass is the deep sound of the water. In its wildness, it constructs the form and then destroys it.
It's amazing!
He has the rhythm, the bass & the whole edifice of sound and then removes everything, leaving only one or two elements, leaving only the bare minimum, which gives a lot of room for resonance.
It serves a singer so fascinatingly; a singer has a lot of room to improvise lyrics and play with vocal patterns and it becomes a real collaboration between music & voice.
He is a great poet…