Second Light
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| Studio album by Dreadzone | |||||
| Released | 30th May 1995 | ||||
| Recorded | Dubby Road Studios, West London | ||||
| Genre | Electronic | ||||
| Length | 56:29 | ||||
| Label | Virgin | ||||
| Producer | Dreadzone | ||||
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Second Light (subtitled "An Original Dreadzone Sound Adventure") is the second album by the British band Dreadzone. It was released on Virgin Records in 1995. John Peel had already supported their first album, 360°, giving it heavy airplay; similarly for Second Light, which he cited as one of his favourite albums of all time [1] .
Four tracks became UK chart hits: Zion Youth & Captain Dread (both #49), Little Britain (#20) and Life, Love & Unity (#56)[2].
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
- "Life, Love and Unity" (Williams, Roberts) (5:43)
- "Little Britain" (5:14)
- "A Canterbury Tale" (Roberts) (8:40)
- "Captain Dread" (5:16)
- "Cave of Angels" (Williams, Bran, Roberts) (6:13)
- "Zion Youth" (6:05)
- "One Way" (Roberts, Bran) (6:00)
- "Shining Path" (Williams, Roberts) (7:22)
- "Out of Heaven" (Roberts) (5:57)
[edit] Samples & Influences
- Life, Love and Unity contains a sample from 'Disco Dub' by Johnny Clarke. The female voices saying "hello" at the beginning of the track are sampled from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
- Little Britain contains dialogue from Lindsay Anderson's film if.... of the headmaster showing off his school: "Britain today is a powerhouse of ideas, experiments, imagination"; the introductory bars are from an unidentified piece by Purcell while the rest of the track relies heavily on Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.
- A Canterbury Tale features dialogue samples from Powell & Pressburger's 1944 film of the same title, including "What wouldn't I give to grow old in a place like that?", spoken by Sheila Sim (as Alison Smith, while riding on a horse and cart past a large country house); the music uses extracts from Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending.
- Captain Dread contains a sample from 'Kind of Bally Hooley' by Patrick Street and a snatch of the song I want to be a sailor from the 1940 film The Thief of Bagdad: "I want to be a sailor sailing out to sea, No plowboy, tinker, tailor's any fun to be". The line "All right my hearties, follow me!" is spoken by Errol Flynn in the 1935 film Captain Blood[1]. Also featured is an extract from the poem "The Schooner 'Flight'" by Derek Walcott:
"You ever look up from some lonely beach and see a far schooner? Well, when I write this poem, each phrase go be soaked in salt; I go draw and knot every line as tight as ropes in this rigging; in simple speech my common language go be the wind, my pages the sails of the schooner Flight. But let me tell you how this business begin". [3]
- Zion Youth contains a sample from 'Dread Lion' by Scratch & The Upsetters and dialogue from the film Rockers spoken by Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace:
"No matter what the weak heart say. And I know that I & I is like a tree, plant by the river of water, and not even the dog that piss against the wall of Babylon shall escape this judgment. For I & I know that all of the youth shall witness the day that Babylon shall fall!". [4]
- Shining Path : at the end of this track, the child on the beach saying "over here" is taken from the 1967 film "Far from the Madding Crowd".
- Out of Heaven contains a sample from 'Before Long' by Ryuichi Sakamoto and an inexact extract from The Shooting of Dan McGrew by Robert Service:
"while high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars? Then you've a hunch what the music meant. . . hunger and night and the stars" [5]
[edit] Personnel
- Greg Roberts - Drums
- Tim Bran - unknown
- Leo Williams - Bass Guitar
- featuring
- Dan Donovan - additional keyboards
- Earl Sixteen - vocals on tracks 1 & 6
- Donna McKevitt - vocals on tracks 3 & 9; viola on track 2
- Vicky Bogal - created the stained glass window featured on the album cover
- Love, Respect and Admiration are also expressed towards a long list of friends & influences.
[edit] References
- ^ Although the line was later used in The Goonies, the version sampled is Flynn's
