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The Congos Heart Of The Congos
1996 2x CD Digibook
Dub
Roots Reggae

Main image
Blood & Fire
backing vocals The Meditations
backing vocals Watty Burnett
bass Boris Gardiner
coordinator [project] Bob Harding
coordinator [project] Steve Barrow
design, art direction, illustration Mat Cook
drums Lowell Dunbar
drums Michael Richards
illustration Andy Veitch
lead guitar Ernest Ranglin
liner notes Steve Barrow
mastered by Kevin Metcalfe
organ Winston Wright
percussion Lee Perry
percussion Noel "Scully" Simms
percussion Uziah "Sticky" Thompson
photography by Phil Hale
piano Keith Stewart
producer Lee Perry
producer The Congos
remastered by [digital restoration] Andrew Walter
rhythm guitar Robert Johnson
written-by Cedric Myton
written-by Roydel Johnson
Mastered At The Town House
Recorded At The Black Ark
Designed At Intro (11)
Phonographic Copyright (p) The Congos
Copyright (c) Blood & Fire Limited
Glass Mastered At Nimbus
Glass Mastered At Nimbus
Recorded in The Black Ark 1976/77.

Mastered at The Town House, London.
Digital Restoration at Room 63, Abbey Road Studios, London.

Design and Art Direction at Intro.

Special Thanks: Cedric and Yvonne Myton, Roydel Johnson, Barry Frankson, Andrea Lewis, Clive Chin and Mandy Campbell, Bob Perry, Lisa Barbaris & Max King, David Katz, Jeremy Collingwood and Trevor Wyatt.

℗1977 The Congos ©1996 Blood and Fire Limited.

Digital remaster of the 1977 album with lost tracks on the second CD:
Tracks 2-1 and 2-2 taken from the Congo Man / Congo Man Chant 12.
Track 2-3 is a dub version to Fisherman previously available as a Jamaican 7 on the Upsetter label.
Track 2-4 is Scratch's B-side dub mix to the Black Art 7 of Ark Of The Covernant first issued in 1977.
Track 2-5 is from the master tape of the Jamaican Upsetter 12 mix.

Released as a digibook with 36 page booklet and a card sleeve for the CDs.
Barcode: 7 83564 00092 0
Matrix / Runout: B9698 BAFCD 009 DISC 1. : 0 MASTERED BY NIMBUS (CD 1, variant 1)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L123 (CD1, variant 1)
Mould SID Code: ifpi 2309 (CD1, variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: B9698 BAFCD 009 DISC 1 · 1:1 MASTERED BY NIMBUS (CD 1, variant 2)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L123 (CD 1, variant 2)
Mould SID Code: ifpi 2305 (CD1, variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: B9699 BAFCD 009 DISC 2. : 0 MASTERED BY NIMBUS (CD 2, variant 1)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L122 (CD2, variant 1)
Mould SID Code: ifpi 2309 (CD2, variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: B9699 BAFCD 009 DISC 2 · 1:1 MASTERED BY NIMBUS (CD 2, variant 2)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L122 (CD2, variant 2)
Mould SID Code: ifpi 2305 (CD2, variant 2)



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