Exodus 40

Description

Bob Marley & the Wailers classic Exodus album, the groups ninth studio effort overall originally issued in June 1977, featured a new backing band including brothers Carlton and Aston Family Man Barrett on drums and bass, Tyrone Downie on keyboards, Alvin Seeco Patterson on percussion, and the I Threes, Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths and Rita Marley on backing vocals, and newest member Julian Junior Marvin on guitar. The essential album was released just six months after an assassination attempt was made on Bobs life in Jamaica in December, forcing him to flee to London, where Exodus was recorded.

June 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of Exodus named the Best Album of the 20th Century by Time magazine in 1999 with a series of reissues including this six disc Exodus 40: Super Deluxe box set. The four LP plus two-7 singles version includes the original LP, Ziggy Marleys restatement Exodus 40 The Movement Continues, an Exodus Live set recorded at Londons Rainbow Theatre the week of the albums release, Punky Reggae Party LP which includes a previously unreleased extended mix of Keep On Moving, and a pair of vinyl 7 singles, including Waiting in Vain b/w Roots and Smile Jamaica (Part One) b/w Smile Jamaica (Part Two).

Ziggy approached the restatement project with the utmost respect for his fathers music and the message. Exodus 40 The Movement Continues is his vision of how his father might have accessed these songs today. Ziggys respectful, but experimental approach places them in a brand-new context, like listening to this classic album again, for the first time. Ziggy uncovered 10 lead vocal outtakes for One Love, proceeding to piece together a dazzling, new lead vocal from the outtakes, which includes vocal booth lyric ad libs near the end of the song.

He also assembled a noteworthy roster of musicians to record a new music bed for Turn Your Lights Down Low which leads the song into deeper elements of R&B. Bobs original vocals sit atop this fresh music bed, creating a new soulful experience with this iconic song. Ziggy and his hand-chosen musicians provide subtle instrumental textures throughout this knowledgeable reimagining from the multiple Grammy winning heir to his fathers legacy.